Ah Harry Mudd, is there any situation he won't try to con his way out of? This time his game is selling a love potion he doesn't believe works, only it does, kinda. This is actually a fairly successful attempt at a comedic episode that despite being about forcing people to fall in love manages to stay mostly not creepy. I was worried Harry Mudd's return to TAS would be pretty bad, but it worked much better than I expected.
The Enterprise is hunting for the notorious swindler Harry Mudd. This time he is on the creatively named mining plate Motherlode. His attempts to sell a love potion seem to be going well until Spock reveals the beautiful woman he is working with on stage is in fact a hypnotic reptile capable of altering its appearance. The miners turn on Mudd and Spock has to save him from the mob by blasting a huge chasm into the ground between the miners and Mudd. They take Mudd back to the ship to so he can face charges back in the Federation. Mudd notices nurse Chapel's infatuation with Mr. Spock and manages to convince her to try the love potion on him. It doesn't appear to have working and Chapel confronts Mudd. They get into a fight in the shuttlebay and break a bunch of the crystals into the ventilation ducts before Mudd subdues Chapel and flees in a shuttlecraft with her.
Back on the bridge Spock is suddenly in love with Chapel and outraged when he learns Mudd has kidnapped her and fled to the rocky planet below. Kirk goes with him down to the planet as the crew gradually succumb to the effects of the love potion including Scottie falling in love with the feline M'Ress. On the planet Mudd manages to awaken giant rock monsters who chase him along with Chapel, Spock and Kirk. Kirk decides to try the love potion on the rock monsters and I think it is supposed to have worked maybe, but being a cartoon they don't actually show if it does. Back on the ship the potion has made everyone who was in love suddenly hate each other and they drag Mudd off to trial.
Review: A quick and entertaining episode. Spock falling head over heals in love is always fun to watch. Somehow with all the love in the air the captain didn't fall for anybody. I guess he already has the ship.
7 out of 10
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