{"id":167623,"date":"2022-12-25T02:57:12","date_gmt":"2022-12-25T02:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/actress-was-one-of-mudds-women-on-star-trek-deadline\/"},"modified":"2022-12-25T02:57:12","modified_gmt":"2022-12-25T02:57:12","slug":"actress-was-one-of-mudds-women-on-star-trek-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/actress-was-one-of-mudds-women-on-star-trek-deadline\/","title":{"rendered":"Actress Was One Of \u201cMudd’s Women\u201d On ‘Star Trek’ \u2013 Deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\tMaggie Thrett, the actress and singer who most memorably played Ruth in the \u201cMudd’s Women\u201d episode of the original Star Trek<\/em>, has died her family announced. She was 76.<\/p>\n

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\t\u201cMudd’s Women\u201d is one of the most memorable episodes of the 1960s Star Trek<\/em>in no small part because it featured three stunningly beautiful women (Thrett, Karen Steele and Susan Denberg) who seem to have strange powers over the male members of the Enterprise crew \u2014 except Spock, of course.<\/p>\n

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\tThe women are en route to a mining colony where they are to become wives for the wealthy but lonely men who mine precious dilithium crystals. Their secret is that they are made both beautiful and irresistible by taking a so-called \u201cVenus\u201d drug given to them by one of the series’ most memorable rascals, Harry Mudd (Roger Carmel).<\/p>\n

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\tIronically, though Carmel was her neighbor, Thrett had to audition for the role. She had no idea what the show actually was. <\/p>\n

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\t\u201cI am shocked that years later I am best known for doing this episode,\u201d she told author Tom Lisani in 2017. \u201cI am forever in TV history. At least it was not bad so I am not embarrassed by it. Some company contacted me to sell my autograph on these Star Trek cards. They pay me to and they resell at these Star Trek conventions. I was invited once but it didn’t work out.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\tSpeaking of pay, Thrett told Lisani she had to fight for her pay from the show. <\/p>\n

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\t\u201cI remember we hit Golden Overtime that day [of filming]. We were there from about 4 in the morning to about 9 or 10 at night. You are passed regular overtime and are into triple overtime. They didn’t want to pay,\u201d said Thrett. \u201cI had to fight for it through the Screen Actors Guild. They don’t like when you do that and hurts your chances to be on the show again. I got my money and no surprise was never invited back. Years later I got a letter from Gene Roddenberry to forfeit my residuals and to donate them to his charity. I declined.\u201d<\/p>\n

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