Few and far-between are the pubescent boy or bourgeoning drag queen who grew up with Star Trek, but doesn’t remember “Mudd’s Women,” season one, episode six. The female “cargo” of Harcourt Fenton Mudd, an excessively mustachioed interstellar conman, arrives in the transporter room decked out in sequined and hairspray, with enough Vaseline smeared across the camera lens to give their eyes that dreamy, come-hither soft-focus. Intended for “wiving” on Planet Ophiucus III, the gals are enhanced and augmented by an illegal “Venus drug,” which creates the illusion of feminine allure, and proves very distracting to the Enterprise crew. (The plot already sounds like a drag send-up!) Returning after October’s sold-out run, the amazing cast of Star Trek Live! includes Leigh Crow, the world’s only female William Shatner impersonator, as Captain Kirk and Honey Mahogany, from RuPaul’s Drag Race, as Uhura; with Laurie Bushman and a lip toupee as Mudd; and Jef Valentine, Persia, and Jordan L’Moore as Mudd’s Women. As Shatner would say, “Do. Not. Miss. This show.”
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