STAR TREK: SHORT TREKS
SEASON 1, EPISODE 4

The Escape Artist

Series: Star Trek: Short Treks - (2018 - 2023)
Season: 1
Episode #: 4
Original Airdate: January 3rd, 2019

Writer(s): Michael McMahan
Director(s): Rainn Wilson

Starring
Rainn Wilson as Harcourt Fenton Mudd

Co-Staring
Dan Abramovici as Guard
Harry Judge as the Tellarite Tevrin Krit
Barbara Mamabolo as Bounty Hunter
Myrthin Stagg as New Guard
Jonathan Watton as Federation Officer


Stardate: Unknown

Synopsis

A Tellarite bounty hunter, Tevrin Krit, purchases prisoner Harcourt Fenton Mudd from a female bounty hunter before she beams away and departs. Mudd pleads his innocence, only to have Krit bring up the United Federation of Planets' charges against him—and reward for his capture.

Mudd continues to plead for his freedom, recalling a variety of similar instances he has found himself in—with Klingons, Orions, and other aliens.

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Mudd's pleas unsuccessful, Krit approaches the Federation starship USS De Milo and requests to have the two beamed aboard.

It is revealed that this Mudd is one of many androids that the actual Mudd, having been in disguise as the female bounty hunter, has sold to various bounty hunters. Back on his ship, the real Mudd prepares to sell another android, continuing this scheme.

  

Posters courtesy of Laz Marquez and J.J. Lendl

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