A Sucker Born

Real-world

Summary

References

Characters

Harry Mudd • Freddie Ott • Spock • Nyota Uhura • Verlida • floaters
Referenced only
Pavel Chekov • Khan Noonien Singh • James T. Kirk • Stella Mudd • Montgomery Scott

Starships and vehicles

Referenced only
Botany Bay
• USS Enterprise

Locations

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Referenced only
Delta Trimute (Elbina • El-Ep asteroid belt • Epsilon)

Races and cultures

Andorian • Human • Nebulean • Orion • Tellarite • Utanturian • Vulcan
Referenced only
Gorn • Romulan

States and organizations

Federation • HFM Enterprises • Starfleet

Other references

ale • asteroid • credit • Federation Standard • gas giant • glass • gum • holodiorama • intercom • iron • nickel • outpost • padd • planet-eater • Starfleet uniform • viewport • warp sled

Appendices

Background

  • This story contradicts TOS novel: Mudd in Your Eye as it is said to be the first time the Enterprise crew has encountered Harry Mudd since the events of "I, Mudd".

Connections

Media featuring Harry Mudd
Episodes "Mudd's Women" • "I, Mudd" • "Mudd's Passion" • "Choose Your Pain" • "Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad" • "The Escape Artist"
Novels and collections Mudd's Angels • Mudd's Enterprise • Mudd in Your Eye • The Light Fantastic
Short stories "The Business, As Usual, During Altercations" • "Dilithium Is a Girl's Best Friend" • "A Sucker Born"
RPGs and games The Adventure Game • 25th Anniversary • 25th Anniversary (NES) • The Badgey Directive • Starfleet Academy • Through a Glass, Darkly m • Trexels • Timelines • Fleet Command
Comics "Operation Con Game" • "It's a Living" • "Made Out of Mudd" • "The Survival Equation" • Discovery - Succession, Issue 1 m • "Vote Mudd!" (Year Five, Issue 15 • Issue 16)
The Return of Mudd "When You Wish Upon a Star...!" • "Mudd's Magic!"
The Return of Harry Mudd "Mission: Muddled" • "The Sky Above...The Mudd Below" • "Target: Mudd!"
m : Mirror universe
Star Trek: The Original Series collected short stories, novellas and short novels
The New Voyages The New Voyages ("Ni Var" • "Intersection Point" • "The Enchanted Pool" • "Visit to a Weird Planet Revisited" • "The Face on the Barroom Floor" • "The Hunting" • "The Winged Dreamers" • "Mind-Sifter" • "Sonnet from the Vulcan: Omicron Ceti Three") • The New Voyages 2 ("Surprise!" • "Snake Pit!" • "The Patient Parasites" • "In the Maze" • "Cave-In" • "Marginal Existence" • "The Procrustean Petard" • "The Sleeping God" • "Elegy for Charlie" • "Soliloquy")
Star Trek II & III Short Stories Star Trek II Short Stories ("The Blaze of Glory" • "Under Twin Moons" • "Wild Card" • "The Secret Empire" • "Intelligence Test" • "To Wherever") • Star Trek III Short Stories ("The Azphari Enigma" • "The Jungles of Memory" • "A Vulcan, A Klingon, and an Angel" • "World's End" • "As Old as Forever")
Strange New Worlds I ("A Private Anecdote" • "The Last Tribble" • "The Lights in the Sky" • "Reflections") • II ("Triptych" • "The Quick and the Dead" • "The First Law of Metaphysics" • "The Hero of My Own Life" • "Doctors Three") • III ("If I Lose Thee..." • "The Aliens Are Coming!" • "Family Matters") • IV ("A Little More Action" • "Prodigal Father" • "Missed" • "Tears for Eternity" • "Countdown" • "First Star I See Tonight" • "Scotty's Song" • "The Name of the Cat") • V ("Disappearance on 21st Street" • "The Trouble with Borg Tribbles" • "Legal Action" • "Yeoman Figgs" • "The Shoulders of Giants") • VI ("Whales Weep Not" • "One Last Adventure" • "Marking Time" • "Ancient History" • "Bum Radish: Five Spins on a Turquoise Reindeer" • "A Piece of the Pie") • VII ("A Test of Character" • "Indomitable" • "Project Blue Book" • "The Trouble With Tribals" • "All Fall Down" • "A Sucker Born" • "Obligations Discharged") • 8 ("Shanghaied" • "Assignment: One" • "Demon" • "Don't Call Me Tiny") • 9 ("Gone Native" • "A Bad Day for Koloth" • "Book of Fulfillment" • "The Smallest Choices") • 10 ("The Smell of Dead Roses" • "The Doomsday Gambit" • "Empty") • 2016 ("Dilithium Is a Girl's Best Friend")
Constellations "First, Do No Harm" • "The Landing Party" • "Official Record" • "Fracture" • "Chaotic Response" • "As Others See Us" • "See No Evil" • "The Leader" • "Ambition" • "Devices and Desires" • "Where Everybody Knows Your Name" • "Make-Believe"
Star Trek: Explorer "All That Most Maddens and Torments" • "The Way to Exile" • "Cumulative Damage" • "Explorers of the Storm" • "The Guardian" • "The Trouble with Jones" • "Sundering" • "A Dish Served Cold" • "Forewarned and Three-Armed" • "Working Miracles" • "Cat and Mouse" • "Housewarming" • "Memoriam"• "Chekov's Challenge" • "My Name is Mudd" • "The Lost Noel"
Misc. short stories "Though Hell Should Bar the Way" • "Conflicting Natures" • "The Avenger" • "Night Whispers" • "Just Another Little Training Cruise" • "Safe Harbors" • "Ill Winds" • "The Greater Good"
Misc. novellas & short novels "The Business, As Usual, During Altercations" • "The Badlands, Part I" • "One Giant Leap" • "The First Artifact" • "The Sorrows of Empire" • "A Less Perfect Union" • "The Chimes at Midnight"

Timeline

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All Fall Down 		Strange New Worlds VII Next story:
Obligations Discharged
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All Fall Down
Strange New Worlds VII 		TOS short stories Next story:
Obligations Discharged
Strange New Worlds VII
Previous story:
Marking Time
Strange New Worlds VI 		Stories by:
Pat Detmer 		Next story:
most recent work
chronological order
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Mudd in Your Eye 		Pocket Books Timeline Next adventure:
Let That Be Your Last Battlefield
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Mudd in Your Eye 		Memory Beta Chronology Next adventure:
Storming Heaven
chapters 1 - 15
Vanguard
Previous adventure:
Mudd in Your Eye 		voyages of the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) (2264 to 2270) Next adventure:
Let That Be Your Last Battlefield
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Mudd in Your Eye 		The adventures of Harcourt Fenton Mudd Next adventure:
Mudd's Passion

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