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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
The problem with throwing Mudd out of an airlock is the fact that it is pretty obvious they expect him to be a reoccuring character. Ergo, plot-induced stupidity.
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Yeah and they clearly want him back as a villain in the series, but it was a decent episode, but you know when you watch a good movie and then at the end they do something so logically baffling that it pulls you out of the moment and you think "Frack that was stupid".
That was that moment, I guess if you wanted to prove that the Captain is indeed mentally unbalanced this was a decision that kind of backs that up.
They could have ended the episode with him being arrested and then later in the series you hear that Harry Mudd was sentenced to 11 years in a federation re-education center, which would mean he was released just in time for TOS.
As it stands he's going to come back and cause Havoc and maybe kill someone and the audience is going to be largely unsympathetic to the crew and the Captain because it was his stupid decision that harmed his crew.