Spoilers Star Trek: Discovery 1x07 - "Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad"
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In the second to last episode before the break, Mudd is allowed to walk free provided that he doesn't do anything naughty again. This amounts to a "slap on the wrist," even though he KILLED multiple STD crewmembers hundreds of times each.
He's clearly a psychopath. I feel like the writers took the whole "we're explorers not soldiers!" thing is a little too far. A little too Scandinavian for my tastes (they give murderers plush living spaces and then parole them early).
Harry Mudd should be in the electric chair or against the wall with a phaser firing squad ("Set phasers to KILL!").
What gives with this writing staff?
He's clearly a psychopath. I feel like the writers took the whole "we're explorers not soldiers!" thing is a little too far. A little too Scandinavian for my tastes (they give murderers plush living spaces and then parole them early).
Harry Mudd should be in the electric chair or against the wall with a phaser firing squad ("Set phasers to KILL!").
What gives with this writing staff?
Also they're in a time a war. Mudd should be tried as an enemy combatant in a Starfleet tribunal. Then executed under the full extent of the law!
^Even in the current reality he managed to kill a few people, no? Also demonstrated intent/conspiracy to act
^ Does espionage get death penalty? The Rosenberg's were executed for death penalty
LOL. If the writers had done the things you have suggested, you would most likely be among the first to bitch about it. I just can't take you seriously
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Nobody was killed, Mudd got conned into thinking he had control, he's stuck with his wife and father-in-law, later he'll hire space hookers, life moves on.
This is different situation from your standard scifi "alternate reality" situation. (ala Rick and Morty where you have different Ricks and Mortys in different realities, and thus Rick A can't be held responsible for Rick B's actions and behavior)
In this case, Mudd is originating his conspiracy from a single reality and then looping back when he fails. This demonstrates intent and conspiracy, and for this, he deserves a phaser firing squad.
Mudd acts like a mass murdering psychopath, has conspired with the enemy, has a super powerful secret technology, gets to keep its secrets for himself, Starfleet acts like a matchmaking agency, suddenly doesn’t care about top secret war-winning technology, life moves on.
I love how when we first met Mudd everyone was like, 'he doesn't deserve to be left in a klingon prison, to potentially be tortured'. Now people are saying 'He should be executed for his crimes'. LOL make up your minds, people
I was 100% for letting that POS rot in Klingon jail. I never said that
Ummm why not leave that traitor in jail?
Traitor?
He may be human, and I only say may, but even if he is from a human colony that broke away from, or never joined the federation... He doesn't dress like a human from the federation of the 23rd century.
Admitting that time travel is real, is admitting that the spore drive is not the best weapon, that is going to win this war, more so admitting that time travel is possible, will put the Klingons on a sudden tear away to invent time travel themselves, which is unacceptable.
THEY SURRENDERED THE SHIP to a barely armed one man boarding party.
Everyone gets court-martialed for that, even if the judiciary believes some bullshit about time crystals.
He may be human, and I only say may, but even if he is from a human colony that broke away from, or never joined the federation... He doesn't dress like a human from the federation of the 23rd century.
Admitting that time travel is real, is admitting that the spore drive is not the best weapon, that is going to win this war, more so admitting that time travel is possible, will put the Klingons on a sudden tear away to invent time travel themselves, which is unacceptable.
THEY SURRENDERED THE SHIP to a barely armed one man boarding party.
Everyone gets court-martialed for that, even if the judiciary believes some bullshit about time crystals.
