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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
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.
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There was a comparison to how he left the kidnapped admiral to rot earlier in the thread. If we go down this route, then there is a relevance to how Mudd was treated. The admiral was a direct threat to Lorca. Ergo, he allowed happy coincidence to eliminate her without raising a fuss. Mudd wouldn't have appeared the same threat to him. Staments could have told and convinced him that Mudd killed him 60 times over, but it is unlikely he would have truly believed that. Buying the threat that Mudd might try to take over the ship is an easier sell, and since he doesn't see Mudd as a personal threat, he was happy to serve up the so-called "fate worse than death".
Doesn't make it a good ending, of course, but does place a foil on how Lorca treated the two threats.