Stardate 1329.3

Fool in a class J ship thought he could outrun a starship in an asteroid field. We lost 3 lithium crystals saving his butt.
This starts the episode Mudd's Women. They never really specified why they were chasing them, so I just had to drop into it.

Supplemental: Freighter captain looks like a reject from "The Pirates of Penzance", and his accent is even worse.

Supplemental: I could have sworn I just saw the August, 1966 playmate of the month walking down the corridor!!!!!!!
Susan Denberg, the blonde who played Magda Kovacs, was in fact the August 1966 playmate of the month