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POLL: Whose is your favorite Jem'Hadar performance?

Whose is your favorite Jem'Hadar performance?

  • Talak'talan (Cress Williams): The Jem'Hadar

    Votes: 2 4.1%

  • unnamed (Bumper Robinson): The Abandoned

    Votes: 2 4.1%

  • Goran'Agar (Scott MacDonald): Hippocratic Oath

    Votes: 5 10.2%

  • Omet'iklan (Clarence Williams III): To The Death

    Votes: 8 16.3%

  • Toman'torax (Brian Thompson): To The Death

    Votes: 1 2.0%

  • Virak'kara (Scott Haven): To The Death

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Ikat'ika (James Horan): In Purgatory's Shadow/By Inferno's Light

    Votes: 6 12.2%

  • Remata'Klan (Phil Morris): Rocks And Shoals

    Votes: 23 46.9%

  • Kudak'Etan (Alpha) (Scott Thompson Baker): One Little Ship

    Votes: 1 2.0%

  • Ixtana'Rax (Gamma) (Fritz Sperberg): One Little Ship

    Votes: 1 2.0%
  • Total voters
    49
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Darth_Pazuzu

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There have been quite a few noteworthy performances in Deep Space Nine from actors playing Jem'Hadar. Since the fearsome Gamma Quadrant warriors were first introduced in the second-season finale, The Jem'Hadar, there actually haven't been that many episodes with Jem'Hadar speaking roles. But of the ones we've seen so far, most of them are quite brilliant in their own way. It would be the easiest thing in the world to do for an actor to just dial in and walk through a generically aggressive, threatening "bad guy" routine - and most of these performances aren't without an element of threat and menace. But the best acting from actors cast in Jem'Hadar roles is imbued with additional subtlety and intelligence - which only succeeds in heightening that sense of menace and threat, if anything making them scarier!

My personal favorite Jem'Hadar performance is from Phil Morris as Remata'Klan in the sixth-season Dominion War story Rocks And Shoals. And I'll wager gold-pressed latinum that there will be many others out there who feel the same way!
 
All of the Jem'Hadar which they made into real characters rather than dumb generic cattle were extremely well-acted. In fact because of that, it makes the often-used flaw of the show when they did turn the Jem'Hadar into dumb generic cattle stick out all the more noticeably. :wtf:

The dude from The Abandoned is the very best IMO.
 
Navaros said:
All of the Jem'Hadar which they made into real characters rather than dumb generic cattle were extremely well-acted. In fact because of that, it makes the often-used flaw of the show when they did turn the Jem'Hadar into dumb generic cattle stick out all the more noticeably. :wtf:

The dude from The Abandoned is the very best IMO.
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Interesting point.

I think Jemmies may be one of my favorite, if not my favorite alien race in all ST
 
I voted for Ometi'klan. Clarence Williams III brought both nobility and a touch of homicidal mania to his performance. I think my favorite comment from that ep is when he disciplines his second by killing him, and Sisko disciplines Worf by confining him to quarters. Ometi'klan is quite disgusted and says derisively, "You call that discipline." Sisko's response is also classic. "A dead man can't learn from his mistakes." And as a Jem'Hadar, he paid Sisko and company a high compliment when he remarked, "You fought well."

My second favorite is Goran'Agar. He wanted to free his people from the white, making him revolutionary. I also think it would've been a mistake for Bashir to synthesize a "cure" for the white. Have to agree with O'Brien: withouth the white, there would be no stopping the Jem'Hadar from eventually overthrowing the Founders and becoming a huge threat to all quadrants of the galaxy.

Red Ranger
 
This poll should have been accompanied by pictures. I barely remember most of the characters and I'm a DS9 freak.
 
The one who "yielded" to Worf when he was in the Dominion prison, Ikat'ika (James Horan): In Purgatory's Shadow/By Inferno's Light. He was an honorable Jem'Hadar.
 
Third Remata'Klan from Rocks And Shoals. This character to me was the definative example of a Jem'Hadar and how they've been engineered into blind loyalty to an oppressive state, even if that loyalty means their own death.
 
I voted for Clarence Williams III. Very convincing , and, offing the Vorta was too cool. Scott Thompson Baker in One Little Ship was also a very good performance. The first and second were worthy of recognition.
 
I always hoped they'd go back to Goran'Agar, showing him as having survived, when I heard the relaunch was going to have a jemhadar I thought it would be him , was dissapointed to see it wasn't
 
Remata'Klan is the first and only Jem'Hadar character I've cared about. He's definately my favorite (and played by Phil Morris even - one of the most versatile character actors I've ever seen).
 
Ahhhh!!! Such a hard question!!! :(

I picked Scott MacDonald- hard to be a melancholy Jem'Hadar, he has such a history with ST, but this was my favourite role of his, and it has influenced in a small way my education and work. And it will continue too.

But wow... Williams, Morris, Horan... great performances from all of them... even if Bumper's character bugged me a bit... disobedience!!

STB and FS did well together but... I dunno... I wonder where they went, they haven't acted since 06 according to IMDB... tho the former has some sort of "wealth" website... o_0
 
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I'm curious as to why people favour the one from "The Abandoned" over Scott Haven and the two from "One Little Ship." The young one was my least favourite- I liked the adorable baby- but he seemed defective after he pointed a phaser at Odo.
 
Darth_Pazuzu said:
There have been quite a few noteworthy performances in Deep Space Nine from actors playing Jem'Hadar. Since the fearsome Gamma Quadrant warriors were first introduced in the second-season finale, The Jem'Hadar, there actually haven't been that many episodes with Jem'Hadar speaking roles. But of the ones we've seen so far, most of them are quite brilliant in their own way. It would be the easiest thing in the world to do for an actor to just dial in and walk through a generically aggressive, threatening "bad guy" routine - and most of these performances aren't without an element of threat and menace. But the best acting from actors cast in Jem'Hadar roles is imbued with additional subtlety and intelligence - which only succeeds in heightening that sense of menace and threat, if anything making them scarier!

My personal favorite Jem'Hadar performance is from Phil Morris as Remata'Klan in the sixth-season Dominion War story Rocks And Shoals. And I'll wager gold-pressed latinum that there will be many others out there who feel the same way!
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Remata'klan is man, or whatever he is.
 
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