The Office star Rainn Wilson is joining the cast of Star Trek: Discovery and there are so many good Dwight Schrute Star Trek jokes being made right now we can hardly stand it.
Wilson will play the part of Harry Mudd, a character familiar to longtime Trek fans. Mudd is a conman character from the original series who had multiple absurd run-ins with the Enterprise crew — he was even in an episode of the Star Trek animated series.
CASTING NEWS: #StarTrekDiscovery adds @rainnwilson to its roster as Harry Mudd, first seen in the original television series! pic.twitter.com/4Ov9DrFVM3
— Star Trek on Paramount+ (@StarTrekOnPPlus) March 31, 2017
There’s no official word yet on how many episodes Wilson will appear in, but we hope he’s in as many as possible and so does everyone making the most of Wilson’s casting on Twitter…
Guys, this is perilously close to April 1st… we're not going to see a photo of Dwight tomorrow with "FALSE" emblazoned across it, are we?
— Ben Adamson (@BenAdamsonDXB) March 31, 2017
Dwight Schrute is gonna play Harry Mudd on the new Star Trek show and I'm losing my mind at how awesome this is.
— Klueterpuff (@BrianLeeKlueter) March 31, 2017
"Bears. Beets. Battlestar Galactica."
er, um… #StarTrek. https://t.co/ma706Y1q36— Brian Keller (@BucksFanBK) March 31, 2017
He was already in the best star trek movie… Galaxy Quest
— Lord High PigMonkey (@Pig_Monkey) March 31, 2017
Casting @rainnwilson as Harry Mudd in the new @StarTrek series is a stroke of goddamn genius. I'm SO down with this.
— Ted Geoghegan (@tedgeoghegan) March 31, 2017
Wilson is just the latest addition to the Star Trek: Discovery cast that includes Walking Dead actress Sonequa Martin-Green in the lead role of a lieutenant commander. James Frain is Spock’s father Sarek, Anthony Rapp will play a “space fungus expert,” Michelle Yeoh is the captain of the Starship Shenzhou, and Jason Isaacs is captain of the Discovery.
We’ll get our first look at Star Trek: Dwightscovery Discovery when it beams up to CBS All Access later this year.
