{"id":45626,"date":"2017-03-31T11:22:01","date_gmt":"2017-03-31T18:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=45626"},"modified":"2017-03-31T11:22:01","modified_gmt":"2017-03-31T18:22:01","slug":"wilson-joins-star-trek-discovery-as-mudd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2017\/03\/wilson-joins-star-trek-discovery-as-mudd\/","title":{"rendered":"Wilson Joins Star Trek: Discovery As Mudd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Rainn Wilson<\/strong>, best known as Dwight Schrute on the US version of <em>The Office<\/em>, has joined the cast of<em> Star Trek: Discovery<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Wilson will take on the guest star role of interstellar con man Harcourt Fenton Mudd.<\/p>\n<p>After appearing on the nine-season run of <em>The Office<\/em>, Wilson starred as a detective on <em>Backstrom<\/em> and was also seen in <em>Army of One, The Boy<\/em>, and<em> Uncanny<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Mudd, originally played by<strong> Roger C. Carmel<\/strong>, appeared in two original series episodes (<em>Mudd&#8217;s Women, I Mudd<\/em>) and one animated series episode (<em>Mudd&#8217;s Passion<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>There is no word yet in how many episodes Wilson will appear as Mudd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rainn Wilson, best known as Dwight Schrute on the US version of The Office, has&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45627,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413],"tags":[2728,8585],"class_list":["post-45626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cast-crew","tag-harry-mudd","tag-wilson"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/WilsonAsMudd033117.gif",580,225,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/WilsonAsMudd033117-150x150.gif",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/WilsonAsMudd033117.gif",580,225,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/WilsonAsMudd033117.gif",580,225,false],"large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/WilsonAsMudd033117.gif",580,225,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/WilsonAsMudd033117.gif",580,225,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/WilsonAsMudd033117.gif",580,225,false],"newsphere-slider-full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/WilsonAsMudd033117.gif",580,225,false],"newsphere-featured":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/WilsonAsMudd033117.gif",580,225,false],"newsphere-medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/WilsonAsMudd033117.gif",580,225,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a>","tag_info":"Cast &amp; Crew","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45628,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45626\/revisions\/45628"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}