After Starting A Stitch In Time, It’s Crazy To Me How Buck Wild Cardassians Are. Like They Are Psychologically

a wonderful ao3 author note

usamericans do you realise that a stereotype we have about u is that you really really love ice. like the amount of ice you put in your drinks and all your ice machines are really silly to us. do your fridges genuinely produce ice????

one of the things I think about a lot with dukat is the way he pronounces the word "bajoran"

pretty much every other character on the show (including the overwhelming majority of actual bajorans) pronounce it with a hard j sound. but marc alaimo nearly every time says it with a much softer consonant, closer to bazhoran or even bashoren.

it's such immaculate flavor that dukat of all people doesn't just mispronounce the name of the people and planet he's subjugating out of like laziness to use vowels/consonants that are closer to his dialect, but that he instead opts for a pronunciation that makes it feel like he's overcompensating. using the zh consonant over the j consonant is honestly less congruous with common patterns in american english of voiced vs unvoiced consonants. he makes the word 'bajoran' feel more exotic and foreign, not less. it gives dukat the flavor of someone who tries sooo hard to pronounce something ~authentically~ that they end up completely missing the mark and sounding totally detached from reality. but of course in his case it's purposeful.

this is why dukat goes so hard as a villain, because yes his text is hyper un-subtle about how much he's the living embodiment of colonialism and racism, but marc alaimo is regularly serving us these acting choices that just take it to the next level. that man and his neck really found his calling huh.

"how did you forget XYZ?!" I didn't, I didn't include it because it would wreck the curve. If you think one was left off in error, pick one of the provided choices and then leave your suggestion in the tags

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I'm fine.

> learn of the show “deep space nine”

> set aboard a stationary station that doesn’t move

> watch first episode

> it moves

where do the lies end

Ok but can u imagine being a straight actor vehemently playing a character as gay and spending the next 30 years talking about how the character is gay in every single interview/comicon/video and even writing two plays and a novel about it, to finally get to voice act the character at the ripe age of 82 and canonically make them gay.

This is the life of andrew robinson. Winning out here for all of us.

star trek mutual 1: can’t believe they didn’t make qcard canon in picard season two

star trek mutual 2: can’t believe they did make qcard canon in picard season two

star trek mutual 3: on a doctor who binge

star trek mutual 4, pacing: the giant green space hand is out to get us

star trek mutual 5: it should be called kock instead of spirk

star trek mutual 6: rewatching and rewatching and rewatching the voyager finale

mutual 7: gay lizard

mutual 8: id fuck quark

no, spotify, i don't want to use ai to "turn my ideas into playlists". i already fucking do that with my brain and hands and i do it for fun. what, should i get ai to pet my cat for me? to play my silly games for me? to spend time with my beautiful wife for me? how about i rend you asunder