Today in [horrible horrible news about Star Trek: Discovery](https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2017/04/rainn-wilson-is-going-to-bring-harry-mudd-to-star-trek-discovery/):
> According to TV Line, [Rainn] Wilson has been cast to play a younger Harry Mudd in Star Trek: Discovery.
[Harcout](http://www.exasperatedcalculator.com/archives/2010/01/trekathon-006-mudds-women-tos/) [Fenton](http://www.exasperatedcalculator.com/archives/2010/01/trekathon-037-i-mudd-tos/) [Mudd](http://www.exasperatedcalculator.com/archives/2010/02/trekathon-089-mudds-passion-tas/).
Mudd is not the worst character in all of Star Trek (*cough* Vic Fontaine *cough*), but he is at best a slapstick idiocy that it’s hard to see working in a more modern TV series. Maybe a gritty take would be interesting, but that would be hard to link into TOS. Rainn Wilson doesn’t strike me as the best casting either – his most famous role (Dwight in *The Office*) is more famous for deadpan humour than the sort of scenery chewing slapstick of Mudd.
Putting this into the ‘uh oh’ column.