[CaptainCrunch]

I was thinking about it last night with the Harry Mudd character.

In TOS he was a harmless incompetent con man, Kirk even saw him as fairly harmless and left him to his devices.

This Mudd us hardly harmless, he's hardly a mere thief and conman, he's actually a murderous psychopath who takes joy in murder and betrayal.

I liked his speech in the prison episode because it reflected a storyline that I've said before would be awesome, that not everyone loves Star Fleet and not everyone see's Star Fleet as heros. "There are more of us down here then there are of you up there".

But the logic here is flawed, I think that this was supposed to be a light slightly humorous character episode.

Instead we get the whole romance angle with Bernam and Tyler, that somehow Bernam has to romance up Tyler to do their duty.

We get Mudd gleefully killing Lorca in hideous fashion, and I can't help but think that the writers thought "When we beam the captain into space and show him dying on the main viewer, the audience will spit out their pop and drop their popcorn from laughing so hard".

And then they take this extremely dangerous psychopath and send him off with an innocent lovelorn girl in their family, because that's not a possible death sentence, and that's not another arrow in this vengeful man's quiver.

Don't get me wrong, I really liked the idea, but time loop stories have been done before but better. and the resolution kind of bugged me because this isn't Harry Mudd harmless con man, this is harry mudd, murderer.

And instead of this whole convoluted thing, why didn't Stamets just grab a phaser and stand in the hallway that Mudd had memorized the patterns for. Mudd hides from the blond girl, then steps out and gets blasted in the face before he can over ride the ships security?

I'm wondering if somewhere in the mirror universe, there is an angry Staments walking around on the ISS Discovery and his crew is wondering why he's acting so weird and maybe they should put him in the agonizer booth and find out.