Star Trek: Discovery Casts Rainn Wilson as TOS Character

The Office alum Rainn Wilson has been cast as a series regular in Star Trek: Discovery.

Wilson will play the charismatic interstellar con man Harry Mudd, though it is currently not known how many episodes Wilson will appear in of the new series. Mudd was part of the original Star Trek series where he had regular run-ins with the crew and was portrayed by the late Roger C. Carmel.

Rainn Wilson in The Office.

Harry Potter star Jason Isaacs was also recently cast as one of the leads, Captain Lorca, the captain of the Starship Discovery. The rest of Star Trek: Discovery's cast includes The Waking Dead star Sonequa Martin-Green, Doug Jones (Hellboy), Michelle Yeoh (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), Mary Wiseman (Longmire), Anthony Rapp (A Beautiful Mind), Shazad Latif (Penny Dreadful), Mary Chieffo (Shelby's Vacation), Chris Obi (Ghost in the Shell), and James Frain (True Detective).

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