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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
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.
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In the time loop that stuck, Mudd wasn’t a murderer though - no one dies in that loop. Still not a “harmless Con-man” I suppose, though.
If Mudd doesn’t do anything else, The crew in TOS wouldn’t know Mudd to be a murderer. I suspect that the show is setting him up to be an ongoing villain, however, which could change that. (I’ve never really watched TOS by the way, so I don’t know who Mudd is there).
I also don’t get how, Staments probably only has a couple minutes at most before Mudd gets to the bridge, to convince literally everyone on the bridge to enact this plan to out con Mudd. Sure, he has a secret word with Burnham in the one loop, but that’s much different than convincing the entire bridge in a different loop, setting up the con (with limited computer control), and executing it perfectly the first time (it could only be tried once, or else Mudd would just restart the loop).
Another thing that Staments could have done other then simply being ready to kill Mudd before he could gain computer access, is to simply call the bridge to lockout Mudd somehow before access could be gained.
Obviously, the ease of overtaking the security systems on a starship is a repeated plot device in Star Trek lore, but it’s still hilariously absurd every time it happens.