Damar is Awesome

[Gul Bones]

Seriously, from a Glinn aboard a cargo ship, to Dukat's right hand man, to Gul, to Legate, to alcoholic, to rebel and finally becoming a martyr. I loved this guy's arc and he was one of the highlights of season 7 by far.

But yeah, Damar great guy - Mila agreed aswell.

 

[UnknownSample]

Yes, great character, and credit to Behr and everybody for picking this very unflashy actor and character out of the background, and putting him through all these changes.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

Very believable character, I agree he is awesome. Always love his sarcasm about Weyoun.

 

[The Wormhole]

Yes, great character, and credit to Behr and everybody for picking this very unflashy actor and character out of the background, and putting him through all these changes.

Didn't they always have plans for expanding the character though? I remember Casey Biggs saying that Behr first encouraged him to go for the character in Return to Grace. Biggs objected since the character's dialogue was basically "aye sir" over and over and Behr just said "do the episode, you'll have no regrets."

And yes, Damar's character arc was awesome and one of DS9's highlights.

 

[Deranged Nasat]

In some ways, Damar is the seventh season's standout character. Perhaps it helps that Damar is more convincing as a "typical" Cardassian than Garak or Dukat, who are both clearly abnormal in a great many ways. With Damar, the personal journey and personal trials help convey a sense of his entire society's struggle. With Garak or Dukat we see the individual and sometimes that individual's perspective on Cardassia. With Damar we see both the individual and Cardassia. His personal journey is very rewarding to those who've been invested in the Cardassians since the series began (well, okay, since "Duet", which was really their first outing on DS9 where they were more than just generic baddies)

 

[Thor Damar]

Of course I'm in complete agreement, for obvious reasons.

 

[UnknownSample]

Poster Damar's signature:

I am the living embodiment of Arthur Dent

Somebody photoshop Damar in a bathrobe with a fish in his ear...

 

[Rush Limborg]

^Maybe during one of his drunken bouts.

Now--as to the subject, I am one of the many who grin like mad every time I watch the moment when he looks over the lifeless body of Weyoun 7...and slowly, but surely, burst into a guffaw!

That, more than anything else, forever defined Damar as: one...awesome...guy.

 

[The Wormhole]

In some ways, Damar is the seventh season's standout character. Perhaps it helps that Damar is more convincing as a "typical" Cardassian than Garak or Dukat, who are both clearly abnormal in a great many ways. With Damar, the personal journey and personal trials help convey a sense of his entire society's struggle. With Garak or Dukat we see the individual and sometimes that individual's perspective on Cardassia. With Damar we see both the individual and Cardassia. His personal journey is very rewarding to those who've been invested in the Cardassians since the series began (well, okay, since "Duet", which was really their first outing on DS9 where they were more than just generic baddies)

Damar is basically the Cardassian common man, in much the same way that O'Brien is supposed to be the human common man, Quark the Ferengi common man, Martok the Klingon common man and so on. DS9 especially had a thing of portraying common people of the various races.

 

[Rush Limborg]

^Common at first, perhaps...but in the end, as Tony Dungy would note, they prove to possess Uncommon virtues, one way or another--courage, and so on--and in so doing, triumph above all others.

 

[sonak]

Damar is the Shran of DS9

 

[Photon]

Perhaps the best line in all of DS9

"Perhaps you should talk to Worf"

 

[Rush Limborg]

"Well, HELOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!"

 

[Photon]

"Well, HELOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!"

Indeed, I LOL'd after that whole exchange

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Damar is Da-man!

 

[Deckerd]

Quark was definitely not a common or garden Ferengi. He was about as far from it as is possible to get.

 

[Bry_Sinclair]

Damar was a great character.

Well done DS9, yet again

 

[LS31]

Perhaps the best line in all of DS9

"Perhaps you should talk to Worf"

"You have nothing to hide, do you?"

(to Leeta) "You certainly don't."

 

[R. Star]

Perhaps the best line in all of DS9

"Perhaps you should talk to Worf"

"You have nothing to hide, do you?"

(to Leeta) "You certainly don't."

Damar was a great character on so many ways. Definitely both of those were great lines of his. The interaction with Weyoun makes me laugh every time still.

What DS9 really did well was create complicated characters. All the good guys had flaws along with their redeeming features. Likewise most of the badguys had good traits even when they were obviously the bad guys.

Damar starts off in relative obscurity as a glorified extra, plants himself firmly in Dukat's shadow and follows his star to the top as it begins to rise. The only real stretch was Damar taking over after Dukat was captured, but it's not impossible to believe that Weyoun's uncaring hand just casually pointed in his direction when someone was needed to fill the spot. Weyoun may have even selected him simply because he'd be easier to dominate than Dukat.

He was always loyal to his friends and his home without a fault. That was an admirable trait no matter what. Sure he was an alcoholic, a racist bigot and not the nicest guy around. Having to witness the oppression he so casually inflicted his own life did change him. Really though, even after he rebelled, his conversion to being "good" wasn't complete until he suffered the loss of his wife and children and asked what kind of people did these things. Kira snaps back the obvious fact that he's one of those people and Damar steps forward obviously going to say something to retort that... but can't. You just see the look in his eyes that he realized she was right and he was in the wrong.

It's a shame he had to die at the end, but if dang if he isn't the textbook definition of martyr. He wasn't a saint, but he was a man who overcame every obstacle thrown at him in life.

 

[Aragorn]

DS9's recurring characters got a lot more development than most of Voyager's regulars.