"I, Mudd" is the eighth episode of the second season of the American science fiction television series Star Trek.
An alien android posing as a Starfleet lieutenant and identifying himself as Norman, hijacks the Enterprise by sealing off engineering and setting a booby trap which would cause any attempt to restore control to destroy the ship.
Captain Kirk finds his ship and crew taken to an unknown planet populated by androids, and meets an old nemesis, the outlaw Harry Mudd.
Mudd informs Kirk that he and his crew are to serve this purpose and can expect to spend the rest of their lives there.
[3] He also claims producer Gene L. Coon offered to put the matter of credit up for Writers Guild arbitration but that he declined.
[4] In 2009, the AV Club called it "goofy, but charmingly surreal", "infectiously silly" and "a treat," giving it an A− grade.
[5] In 2016, Syfy noted this episode for actress Nichelle Nichols presentation of Uhura, as having her fifth best scene in Star Trek.