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What's up with the weird hair styles for the characters?

Starfleet's uniform and hair code is a deliberate imitation of the American military, even though it's not an organization of Americans, or even humans. Worf and AU Neelix were obviously allowed to wear traditional Klingon/Talaxian hair, but Worf's privilege came over time and Voyager was stuck in the DQ. At least after Ensign Ro, Bajorans were allowed to wear their earrings.
And SNW is rather punk style, that's why I love it ;)
 
TBH the only hair that gets my attention is Pike's because it just keeps getting bigger. I swear they're leaning into it to get a reaction now. :rommie:

Criminal, murderer, kidnapper, thief.
Mudd? A murderer? I must have missed that episode. If you're referring to Captain Leo Walsh having "passed away suddenly" and then Mudd taking his identity, there's no indication that Mudd killed him. It is played more like convenient timing or a circumstance that Mudd exploited.
 
TBH the only hair that gets my attention is Pike's because it just keeps getting bigger. I swear they're leaning into it to get a reaction now. :rommie:


Mudd? A murderer? I must have missed that episode. If you're referring to Captain Leo Walsh having "passed away suddenly" and then Mudd taking his identity, there's no indication that Mudd killed him. It is played more like convenient timing or a circumstance that Mudd exploited.
No, actually it's played as sinister - not convenient, but "too convenient."

I've always assumed that Harry had something to do with it. Maybe gave him a push off a ledge...
 
No, actually it's played as sinister - not convenient, but "too convenient."

I've always assumed that Harry had something to do with it. Maybe gave him a push off a ledge...
I get it since they didn't go into further detail, but Harry was mostly portrayed as "the space pimp with a heart of gold" - or at least polished brass. He's smiley, a liar and thief but he's not portrayed as someone to take a life. He finds an opening and takes fullest advantage. And without further proof, we can't really call him a murderer since he wasn't even charged. Kirk and company made nothing of it.
 
I get it since they didn't go into further detail, but Harry was mostly portrayed as "the space pimp with a heart of gold" - or at least polished brass. He's smiley, a liar and thief but he's not portrayed as someone to take a life. He finds an opening and takes fullest advantage. And without further proof, we can't really call him a murderer since he wasn't even charged. Kirk and company made nothing of it.
I. Mudd Harry is a buffoonish lovable rogue. Mudd's Women Harry is a cut throat who hides behind several facades to throw people off.
 
I get it since they didn't go into further detail, but Harry was mostly portrayed as "the space pimp with a heart of gold" - or at least polished brass. He's smiley, a liar and thief but he's not portrayed as someone to take a life. He finds an opening and takes fullest advantage. And without further proof, we can't really call him a murderer since he wasn't even charged. Kirk and company made nothing of it.
He was a drug dealer and a sex trafficker. It's only another half-step for him to be a murderer.
 
He was a drug dealer and a sex trafficker. It's only another half-step for him to be a murderer.

As I mention I'm a different thread here, there were some tentative plans to bring Mudd back in the first season of TNG (found frozen in a statis pod floating in space) and at the end of the episode he would have been given a choice between saving the Enterprise, or some kind of large wealth, and according to what I read (I believe in Star Trek: The Official Fan Club Magazine) he would have at the very last minute (a bit reluctantly) saved the Enterprise, and said something like "This one's for Kirk and Spock!'

Unfortunately the actor, Roger C. Carmel, passed away in late 1986.

Also, this would have violated Gene's rule about NOT mentioning Kirk and Spock, but I gathered this was more of an idea floating around the writer's room than a fully polished script.

But it certainly would have been a HECK on an episode!! And it would have fit much more with the semi-reformed lovable rogue version of the character, not so much the bloodthirsty killer. Too bad it was never made. :(
 
I get it since they didn't go into further detail, but Harry was mostly portrayed as "the space pimp with a heart of gold" - or at least polished brass. He's smiley, a liar and thief but he's not portrayed as someone to take a life. He finds an opening and takes fullest advantage. And without further proof, we can't really call him a murderer since he wasn't even charged. Kirk and company made nothing of it.
No, but the point is that his backstory is more open to fair interpretation than some people insist - as are some of his comedic actions in TOS. Especially the question of what he'd resort to out of fear for his own life as a prisoner during wartime.
 
As I mention I'm a different thread here, there were some tentative plans to bring Mudd back in the first season of TNG (found frozen in a statis pod floating in space) and at the end of the episode he would have been given a choice between saving the Enterprise, or some kind of large wealth, and according to what I read (I believe in Star Trek: The Official Fan Club Magazine) he would have at the very last minute (a bit reluctantly) saved the Enterprise, and said something like "This one's for Kirk and Spock!'

Unfortunately the actor, Roger C. Carmel, passed away in late 1986.

Also, this would have violated Gene's rule about NOT mentioning Kirk and Spock, but I gathered this was more of an idea floating around the writer's room than a fully polished script.

But it certainly would have been a HECK on an episode!! And it would have fit much more with the semi-reformed lovable rogue version of the character, not so much the bloodthirsty killer. Too bad it was never made. :(

Roger C Carmel had attended a Star Ceremony on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and had a reunion with many of the Trek gang. He was told about TNG, then in pre-production. He had been unwell and not getting much work. The story pitch that originally included Mudd became the episode "The Neutral Zone".
 
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