These flashbacks also include some nice Star Trek: TOS and Star Trek: Discovery cameos, most notably Voq and the Orions.
In the end, the bounty hunter does turn Mudd over to the Federation – only to learn that the Mudd in his custody is a high quality android copy with a Mudd-matching DNA covering[...]
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