Been watching the OS in honor of Mr. Nimoy, and some of the stuff Harry Mudd finds is very useful, such as the planet of androids. Is Mudd in the Mirror Universe?
AFAICR, not in any of the series, but in fanfic… who knows?
No, he’s never mentioned in the Mirror Universe. He did have a later appearance in the animated series, though, and in several ST cartoons and books since.
My favorite Mudd dialogue:
Mudd: “You’re a hard man, Captain.”
Kirk: “And you’re a liar. I think we understand one another.”
I suppose he wouldn’t do very well. Or he’d be someone really nasty.
Stella, on the other hand…
Mudd only appears in two episodes – three if you count the cartoon. He’s given more weight in many fans’ memories than he merits.
Sex.
Impossible.
Checking Memory Beta and Memory Alpha, he doesn’t appear to have a counterpart in the Mirror Universe - at least yet.
He did get a quick mention in the new timeline in Into Darkness.
Sticking to TOS only, two episodes is twice what at least 90% of non-Enterprise crew got. Probably 100%…I can’t remember offhand if there are any more repeat appearances before TAS (which brought back Sarek and Cyrano Jones (who is often conflated with Mudd from what I’ve seen)) and the films (Khan). So he actually merits quite a bit of weight, relative to other non-regulars.
Other than second- and third-tier Enterprise crewmembers, I think Christopher Pike, pre- and post-injury, is the only other example - and he was played by different actors.
If the two-part episode counts, then Jose Mendez counts.
Personally, I think Skip Homeier deserves mention just because in his two TOS appearances, the characters he played had dramatically different ideologies and both die.
Recurring characters, though… I think Mudd’s it. Jose Mendez might deserve an asterisk because most of the two-part episode wasn’t really him, arguably, but an illusion created by the Talosians.
I admit, I’m surprised alternate!Mudd didn’t show up in any of the books, but of course he wouldn’t make it into the show, since the show only showed the people on the ship.
What’s also kind of sad is that Mudd didn’t appear in the novelizations by James Blish. Blish had plans to flesh Mudd out and make a novel-length Star Trek book that would include the two episodes as chapters, but he didn’t live long enough to finish it.
Always annoyed me that his appearance in the second one,* I Mudd*, had a major inconsistency. Namely that Kirk immediately recognizes him from the first episode and calls him by name, but Spock (and nobody else) seems to, but then later Scotty immediately does!
Mirror Mudd?
Okay- Imperial Procurator Harcourt Fenton Mudd is one of the most respected men in the Terran Empire. He has a reputation for being incorruptible and a brutal but fair administrator. Only his personal humility and devotion to his wife have prevented him from rising higher than a sector governorship.
He is continuously plagued by a blockade runner in his sector. As he reports to his superiors, despite his best efforts to enforce Imperial Justice on rebellious planets there is a person who unselfishly risks his ship and life to smuggle in needed medicines or foodstuffs. Attempts to starve out radicals have often been foiled by this troublemaker. Last known pseudonym this blockade runner has used was “Leo Walsh.”
Governor Mudd has a secret, which if discovered by the Empire could cost the lives of worlds, and he keeps it to protect his lovely Stella.
The ‘mirror universe’ only appeared in one episode, so…
Awesome.
I always suspected that making the guy Mudd was a fairly last-minute change, but it turns out it wasn’t. At least, it was written by the same guy who made Harry Mudd the first time, and the first draft already has Mudd in there.
What did happen is that the episode was retooled to get them to Mudd a lot faster. Maybe the decompressed time frame magnified the issue that could have been easily glossed over otherwise. I only remember Chekhov not knowing Mudd myself, which makes perfect sense since he could easily have not been on board the ship the first time.