The hijacking of the Enterprise by the android Norman, who delivered the ship to a world of two hundred thousand androids ruled, in name only, by the swindler Harry Mudd.
In the Original Series episode I, Mudd, a new crewman called Norman locks the Enterprise on a four-day course to an uncharted planet and reveals himself to be an android. There Kirk finds Harcourt Fenton Mudd enthroned as Mudd the First, attended by identical series of beautiful androids built by a long-dead people from the Andromeda galaxy.
Mudd wants the crew as replacements so that he can leave. The androids have other ideas: they beam the whole crew down, take the ship for themselves and intend to serve humanity so completely that it can never again do harm, leaving Mudd as stranded as everyone else.
Kirk's officers and Mudd overload the androids with absurd behaviour and contradictions, ending with the liar's paradox that burns out Norman, their co-ordinator. Mudd is left behind under the eye of several hundred copies of his nagging wife Stella.