Star Trek - The Original Series, Vol. 2, Episodes 4 & 5: Mudd's Women/The Enemy Within Rating: Release Date: 17 August, 1999 Retail Price: $19.99 OUR Price: $17.99 You SAVE: $2.00! Cast: James Taylor Robert Taylor Don Taylor Don Murray Complete Cast (6 total)

Star Trek - The Original Series, Vol. 2, Episodes 4 & 5: Mudd's Women/The Enemy Within Reviews

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Self-Confidence the Best Drug/Accepting Yourself for What You Are
Gene Roddenberry's moralising continues on Vol 2 with 2 more great episodes. In "Mudd's Women" we are introduced to the likeable villain Harry Mudd who tries to sell wives to lonely miners except that the women only keep their beauty with regular intake of pills. Why Harry doesn't get normal girls to begin with isn't explained but I suppose we'll give them poetic license and get on to the overall moral which is to not judge a book by its cover and to seek out the beauty within. On "The Enemy Within", the moral seems to be to accept that we all have good and bad parts of our personality but the secret to success and happiness is to control both impulses for good and evil to hopefully end up with a synergistic, "whole greater than the sum of its parts" situation. Not among the stronger episodes in the entire series but not among the worse either and so recommended.

Skip It
The original "Star Trek" series is cheesy at times but often fun and sometimes dramatic. However, 2 episodes per disc is a sure sign that Paramount was milking this series for all that it's worth, because they knew that the loyal "Star Trek" fans would buy every disc - all 40 of them. Paramount has now released the entire series in season boxed sets which, although still pricey, include bonus features and are a better value than these single-disc releases. Skip these discs and buy the boxed sets instead.

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