Dukat - Blog Posts
When the dominion war hits hard on Damar and Dukat
Wipped out the digital pen for this one, can't believe one of my favorite art pieces so far this month is a re-draw of a meme lmao
Anywayssss here's the original picture, courtesy of @oomox-oclock 's discord server:
(ps, is it just me that thinks the way I drew damar makes him look like a disney father??)
I feel like the weirdest part is that I didn’t see people saying ‘I find Dukat’s sex crimes to be disgusting so he is repulsive to me. I do not want to fuck this man. pass.’ which would be entirely fair, imo. Instead it was like ‘ugh he was a shitty dad and evil’. which. I mean some of the great DILFs of all time fit that description
people who think like this also need to put those stick-on bird decals on their glass patio doors so they don't get bloody noses every day
the noises that snakes make when they sneeze are 1000000% the noises cardassians make when they sneeze. imagine damar. imagine dukat. imagine garak.
I’ve been thinking about it all day.
Based off that one post i cant stop thinking about
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.