Here I was, about to start a thread on Harry Mudd and there's 1 just a few days old.
Roger Carmel had a few interesting 1-off roles or some cartoon voice roles, though sadly he wasn't as utilized as much as he could be. He was Colonel Gumm in 1 story on Batman (I think that was the one with the Green Hornet and the laughably mismatched Robin vs. Kato fight that was mandated to end in a draw), he was the voice of a Gummy Bears character, the voice of Cyclonus on Transformers, a rather strange role playing the power behind the throne to a clinically insane leader but also as his personal attendant or minder/lead defender.
Glad someone else mentioned Route 66 because I was going to say he was in 3 eps (2 if that 2-parter is counted as 1). Great show, very underrated. He was also in an episode of Naked City playing the villain.
And he was going to be in TNG too! Originally, "The Neutral Zone" was going to be about a cryogenically frozen Mudd being revived and bringing his classic villainy to the Enterprise-D, but that ended when they learned he died a year earlier, so they made it about a bunch of 1980s people.
Yeah... that's part of what I love best about his performance... the timing of the banter between him and Kirk was absolutely perfect... it felt truly natural, as if the lines had not been scripted at all, because there were no awkward pauses between segments of dialogue... the timing of the exchange was nailed down, and the scene flowed so smoothly... it was great.
He was the perfect foil for Kirk. It's too bad we have just 2 episodes of Kirk/Mudd and many many more of Picard/Q, though Q is as good a foil for Picard as Mudd is.
Does anyone know why there was no Harry Mudd episode in Season 3? And on the same subject, why there was no Q episode in TNG Season 5? Both had a pattern of appearing once a season (at least).
