Spoilers Star Trek: Short Treks 1x04 - "The Escape Artist"

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"Harry Mudd, back to his old tricks of stealing and double-dealing, finds himself in a precarious position aboard a hostile ship – just in time to try out his latest con." - Memory Alpha

Release Date: Thursday, January 3, 2019​

 

This sneaked up on me!

 

Yep, I had no idea it was airing tonight.
Will get to it when my Vampire schedule allows.
I expect to enjoy it though, the Mudd stuff has been fun.

 

I still haven't seen the Saru one yet. I need to watch these two before the season 2 premiere.

 

Airs Thursday night

 

It's releasing on January 3, 2019. You still have two days to wait.

 

Well, only one day at this point.

 

Holidays totally screw up my calendar of what day is what

 

No worries.
Drunken Revelry on New Years Eve always usually messes mine up.

 

Time does not exist between Christmas and New Years.

 

What time does this episode pop up? I'm not seeing it yet.

 

9:30 est

 

That was fantastic & fun - I'm definitely looking forward to McMahan's Lower Decks series now, and just placed an order for Warped.

 

Spoiler

One of the androids was wearing Mudd's TOS outfit

 

Loved this one. Each of these Short Treks has been so different, I really like the diversity. This one was clever and funny and felt like a Gene Coon TOS episode.

 

That was interesting and fun.

 

I found that delightful.

Spoiler

The "I, Mudd" outfit made me intensely curious if this is supposed to take place after that episode, or if the outfit was just an in-joke. I think it makes more sense if this was his escape (or, potentially, a botched escape that resulted only in hundreds of Mudd replicants being let loose upon the galaxy) than if this is the secret backstory to "I, Mudd" and he lied through his teeth to Kirk about how he ended up trapped on the android's asteroid.

 

I wouldn't expect him to not lie to Kirk. If he thought he could get away with it.
Twenty counts of attempted homicide? I wonder who else beside the DSC core staff?

 

Spoiler

Or he just likes that style of outfit, he also wore a similar outfit in his TAS appearence

The Tellarite (he was in the trailer, this isn't a spoiler) is played by the same actor who played the Tellarite admiral in Season 1.

 

Uhhhh.... that threw me a loop. And it killed some time. It's not bad but I don't think it's as good as the other shorts. I give it a 6.

Yes, you read that right.