We’re still two weeks out from the next Star Trek: Discovery “Short Treks” release, but today we get our first extended look at the return of Harry Mudd in a trailer for “The Escape Artist,” coming January 3.
Rainn Wilson returns as Mudd, reprising his role from the first season of Discovery, and he also serves as director of this short — which showcases Mudd in the hands of Tellarites, Orions, Klingons, and one new alien species along the way.
Seeing a Tellarite operate as a bounty hunter isn’t a new Trek idea, and is a nice callback to the time Jonathan Archer was captured by Skalaar back in 2003’s “Bounty.”
We’ll find out more about exactly what kind of trouble Harry Mudd finds himself in when “The Escape Artist” debuts on CBS All Access and Space next month — the Short Trek beams down January 3.
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