History Recap / StarTrekS1E6MuddsWomen

* GaussianGirl: Part of the supposed "self-confidence" which is all women need to be beautiful.

* MailOrderBride: The three women.
* MaleGaze
* MsFanservice: Eve, Magda, and Ruth.

* RunningAwayToCry: Eve tearfully screams that they should have a lottery with her as the loser's prize and darts outside. Kirk tries to follow her, but gets hampered by the sandstorm outside.

* ShesGotLegs: Magda.

* MySensorsIndicateYouWantToTapThat: During the hearing into Mudd's reckless piloting, Kirk initiates a computer scan of all present intended to discover if Mudd or his passengers are showing physiological reactions indicative of dishonesty. The computer reports negative, then volunteers that most of the male crew present are showing physiological reactions indicative of attraction to the women.
** However, [=McCoy=]'s sickbay instruments go haywire whenever one of the women walk past.

* MagicFeather: During the reveal that Mudd was using the Venus Drug to enhance the women's beauty, Eve takes the pill. At first the drug seems to work. Then Kirk reveals that the pill she ate was just colored jello, the real drug confiscated. It turns out Eve didn't need the drug, just her self-confidence.

* MagicFeather: During the reveal that Mudd had was using the Venus Drug to enhance the women's beauty, Eve takes the pill. At first the drug seems to work. Then Kirk reveals that the pill she ate was just colored jello, the real drug confiscated. It turns out Eve didn't need the drug, just her self-confidence.

* MagicFeather: Three women are supposedly given a "Venus drug" which made them irresistibly beautiful, but it revealed at the end that they didn't need the drug to make themselves beautiful - it was self-confidence all along. The on-screen moral being: apparently self-confidence can [[BrokenAesop give you an actual makeover]] — complete with makeup and a new hairdo!

* SpaceDoesNotWorkThatWay: Asteroids of that size are not going to come at you with that frequency, unless you're playing a 20th-century arcade game.

[[caption-width-right:350:Harcourt Fenton Mudd, aka Harry Mudd. Bad guys were [[ObviouslyEvil anything but subtle]] in the 60s.]]

** Childress apparently just wanted a woman to hang around and be pretty, but starts to look at Eve in a new light as she reveals herself to be cleverer than he expected.

* ShesGotLegs: Magda.

SpaceWestern: The episode uses several well-worn tropes of the genre. Mudd is essentially [[TheOldestProfession a hustler selling women to settlers out on the frontier]], though the implications of this are not explored in any detail.

* HollywoodHomely: When Eve's Venus drug wears off and she reverts to her alleged ugliness, it only looks like she removed her makeup and messed up her hair.

* HiddenDepths: Childress apparently just wanted a woman to hang around and be pretty, but starts to look at Eve in a new light as she reveals herself to be cleverer than he expected.
* HumanOutsideAlienInside: It's mentioned in passing that Spock's heart is over to one side and further down than a human's heart would be.

* ShesGotLegs: Magda.

** The first two can simply be chalked up to Mudd's quirks.

* SherlockScan: Mudd apparently can do this, correctly noting that Spock is ''part'' Vulcan despite him looking like pretty much every other full-blooded Vulcan.

* TheissTitillationTheory: Ruth's outfit certainly is eye-catching.

* MySensorsIndicateYouWantToTapThat

* TheissTitillationTheory: Rith's outfit certainly is eye-catching.

* SherlockScan: Mudd apparently can do this, correctly noting that Spock is ''part'' Vulcan despite him looking like pretty much every other full-blooded Vulcan.

* MySensorsIndicateYouWantToTapThat

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Another episode with references to "lithium," which would later be called "''di''lithium," and Spock being referred to as "Vulcanian."