Mudd was a great comical criminal. In "Mudd's Women" he referred to the 3 frabjous gals as his cargo and in "I,Mudd" he convinced a bunch of humanoid robots to kidnap the entire crew and the Enterprise to be his slaves. Mud had lofty ideas and was able to get most of his plans into motion but was tripped up by unexpected results. To his credit, he does cooperate with Captain Kirk when his plans go awry. The end of "I,Mudd" Kirk leaves Mudd with several thousand robots to help reform him, those robots were his shrewish ex wife.