I'm guessing 1 part Quark and 1 part The Doctor from Voyager. He could be the mirror that reflects the absurdity of federation ideals from time to time. I doubt he'll be as overt and theatrical as Classic Harry, but still somewhat familiar.
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A vain, selfish, avaricious, undisciplined and casually destructive recurring character in Star Trek? True, the only thing he could do would be to create some dramatic conflict and a little comedy, and there's no indication from the trailer so far that we'll be seeing any more of that than we did twenty years ago.
Well you did just say the character 'doesn't date'. And Mudd's Women being a big portion of the character's appearances to date, I think it's fair to point out that it's dated terribly.
I define Mudd as an archetype, not just the literal bag of words in the existing screenplays he was in. He'd still be Mudd if written in a contemporary story. But if you want to blackball the character over perceived sexism in Mudd's Women, be my guest. I think you'll find that the laws of attraction have hardly evolved since then, and if anything, have devolved.
Or it could simply be that he's a multifaceted person who doesn't always act the same way in every situation -- just like real people. Arguably it wasn't Mudd himself who was the source of the sexism in "Mudd's Women" so much as the scenario -- a Western-style frontier culture where the first pioneers were predominantly male and looking for brides. That's a very sexist premise that doesn't hold up in retrospect, but if we stipulate to it for the sake of discussion, then that means Harry didn't create the situation -- he was just recognizing the market it created and trying to fill the demand, like any self-respecting con man would. We know his record includes other con games that aren't so gendered, like purchasing a ship with counterfeit money, selling a Vulcan fuel synthesizer on Deneb V, selling Starfleet Academy to the Ilyrians, and selling the natives of Omega Cygni their own ocean. So his appearance in Discovery could just focus on some con game like those, and it could avoid the skeevier aspects of "Mudd's Women" and "Mudd's Passion" while still being consistent with his established personality.
Every Star Trek show needs a lovable rogue. If the chemistry is right with the cast he's bound to reappear.
I'm not sure sexist is right adjective. Pervy, perhaps, because he based the Alice's on a real person.
If they give him a Starfleet past, ex by the time he meets Kirk, that'd be a pretty glaring thing nobody mentioned on TOS, unless he got some underworld guy to purge his record.
Mudd is sent into the future by the past Temporal Cold War to spy on Kirk, but mistakenly reports to The Discovery. Hilarity and more time travel ensue.
He did?
Well now that I double checked, he just says:
"They were, of course, made to my personal specifications, as indeed were the Maisie series, the Trudie series, and particularly the Annabel series."
I must have been thinking about McCoy's showgirls from "Shore Leave"
Or maybe Starfleet was so ashamed that they ever admitted Mudd in the first place, they themselves removed all mention of him from their records.
Sorry for being a big TOS noob but who is Mudd?
I'm really overdue for watching TOS i guess
I'm really overdue for watching TOS i guess
Picture that Orion pirate from the last Season of Enterprise blended with the comedy Ferengi from DS9.
If they kept his appearances limited, I'd love for him to interact with various members of the Discovery crew separately and come up with a different con/backstory for each of them; to the point where its only in his final appearance they learn his name and thus the long rap sheet of Harry Mudd is established. Basically act a subtle shout-out to Garak and give Wilson the chance to do some fun character stuff with him.
Maybe Burnham's full name is Stella Michael Burnham. The event that Discovery alludes to is the onset of Harry Mudd's criminal career.
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