Review: Short Trek: Escapist Artist.

[tjfd88]

He has a decade to grow the stache in.

This feel more like Mudd than his appearance in the series. Collecting the multiple bounties on his head himself using androids is a scheme he would so get behind.

You know, it would be fun to have a Short Trek series that covers all time periods. So one episode could be in the TNG era, another could be Deep Space Nine, yet another could be Enterprise. It would be a chance to tell stories the series just couldn't tell.

Well, the most recent Short Trek was from the post-TNG era, so there is that. Not sure you'd call that Short Trek fun however.

[CrypticMirror]

This episode was Harry Mudd being Harry Mudd. What's not to love? Unless of course you hate Harry Mudd.

If you love Harry Mudd, then why are you watching this offbrand version?

Discovery continues to fail to win me over. And frankly, latest revelations about it and the upcoming Picard series make it seem highly unlikely to ever do so.

[J!!]

I love Dwight Mudd.

[Mecha82]

This episode was Harry Mudd being Harry Mudd. What's not to love? Unless of course you hate Harry Mudd.

If you love Harry Mudd, then why are you watching this offbrand version?

Basically you are doing whole "no one is allowed to like what I don't like"-routine. It makes you seem self centered and arrogant like people are allowed to only like things that you like when in reality you aren't important at all.

[Thebestoftherest]

He has a decade to grow the stache in.

This feel more like Mudd than his appearance in the series. Collecting the multiple bounties on his head himself using androids is a scheme he would so get behind.

You know, it would be fun to have a Short Trek series that covers all time periods. So one episode could be in the TNG era, another could be Deep Space Nine, yet another could be Enterprise. It would be a chance to tell stories the series just couldn't tell.

That actually a good idea.

[Thebestoftherest]

This episode was Harry Mudd being Harry Mudd. What's not to love? Unless of course you hate Harry Mudd.

If you love Harry Mudd, then why are you watching this offbrand version?

Discovery continues to fail to win me over. And frankly, latest revelations about it and the upcoming Picard series make it seem highly unlikely to ever do so.

May I asked what the revelation was exactly?

[MrL1992]

I see complaints about how 'advanced' the Androids seem to be but they seem to only be capable of a very predefined role before breaking down.

Mudd is a great POV character for this part of the Trek galaxy, certainly is more potential in shorts like this.

[JL_Stinger]

"Harry Mudds all the way down"? Is Chuck a fan of John Green?

Sidenote: I thought Terry Prachett came up with the idea of the world on the back of four elephants on the back of a turtle because it's so obviously ridiculous. But no apparently it comes from Hindu mythology. (I learned this when I googled "turtles all the way down".)

[Nightbeat74]

Oh. I hadn't seen the episode in a long time, so I forgot the cat was just suddenly there.

I wonder how they came to the decision to give Data a cat in the first place.

Exec 1: "Data needs to be more relatable to the audience."
Exec 2: "Let's give him a pet."
Exec 1: "BRILLIANT!"

also i kinda want to see what trek 'verse animal services are like

[bronnt]

Oh. I hadn't seen the episode in a long time, so I forgot the cat was just suddenly there.

I wonder how they came to the decision to give Data a cat in the first place.

Exec 1: "Data needs to be more relatable to the audience."
Exec 2: "Let's give him a pet."
Exec 1: "BRILLIANT!"

I suspect it was mostly an invention to get "Data's Day" to work. Imagine being in the writer's room, and someone poses the question, "You know, if we're following Data around all day...the character never sleeps. Why would he ever go to his quarters?" (Obviously this is before Data started dreaming).

So they wanted him to have some manner of "home life," and the justification they came up with was that he had a pet.