'Great episode' is probably overstatement, but it was a lot of fun, despite the whole agony-while-watching-it thing. It was misogynistic - in that it portrayed women as wanting to deceive men to get by, kinda - and anti-feminist - in that it portrayed women as wanting to serve men - but still seemed to kind of redeem itself by the end.
This show is definitely anti-Irish, tho. Between that off-key singer of a navigator-guy an ep or two ago, and this episode's Mr. Mudd's sleazy con-artistry, every time anyone is overtly Irish, they're bad, bad, bad. That's a shame. As a dude with a lot of love for the positive aspects of the stereotyped Irish, I find it a bit disappointing when they're all negatively stereotyped n' stuff.
Plot: Kirk risks the Enterprise to save the peoples on board an enemy vessel. Said peoples end up being an over-the-top Irish felon and three chicks who are so hot they are inexplicably hot (as per the plot, not necessarily my own opinion). It's a - you guessed it - race against time as Kirk tries to get the stuff to repair the Enterprise while the nefarious Celt tries to ruin that.
Technically, I guess you could probably label this one as another episode about gender relations and psychic powers, but the psychic powers are not from an ancient civilization, and the gender relations end up being less cliche than in the past, kind of, so it's far enough from that mold I got so sick of in the first four episodes that I didn't mind. That was a hell of a run-on sentence.
Random Stats: 1 strong drink consisting of Kraken rum and store-brand diet Sprite, 4 shots of Aristocrat vodka, 1 can of Natural Light because the heartburn got too hardcore to fuck with straight liquor, 3 women who sparkle when they take their meds, 1 ridiculous mustache with ridiculous accent to match, and 2 or 3 episodes where Spock totally fails at being emotionless but hides it well.
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