Why didn't they just keep their characters?

[tafkats]

^Well that story wasn't written back when we first saw Macet.

However, making him have just recently become the prefect would have deprived them of a lot of good story possibilities, and for no particularly good reason.

 

[FormerLurker]

Here's a case where I'm glad that they didn't point out it was the same character. After recently watching Star Trek Generations, I noticed the Klingon helms officer actor Brian Thompson also played the Klingon in TNG's A Matter of Honour who gains respect for Riker (after he rammed his head in a terminal). Though it would be considered a good death by Klingon standards, I hope they're not the same character because I liked him in AMoH and would feel somewhat cheated if that character who wouldn't see his father because of honor and who didn't shoot Riker in the back after betraying his captain based of honor, later decided to join and die alongside the dishonorable Duras sisters.

Someone would have to check the images to make sure, but didn't he have different forehead appliance designs for each appearance? That's enough to say they're different characters, at least where Klingons are concerned. After all, Charles Cooper played both General Korrd and Supreme Commander K'mPec. No one ever said they were the same character, and the different forehead appliances make it obvious they're not, even discounting that one was in a TOS movie and the other on TNG.


And I know Memory Alpha calls K'mPec the Klingon Chancellor. TNG/DS9 only started using that because that's what Gorkon was called in TUC. In Sins of the Father and Reunion, which were made first, K'mPec was called Supreme Commander. Almost like the Supreme Commander position absorbed the Chancellor position at some point, and swiped the title.

 

[bbjeg]

^After checking, there are slight differences, and Lursa and Bator have the same forheads that they had in Redemption. It might not be him after all.

What difference does that make? I thought the issue was why didn't they use Macet in DS9, to which I was providing the reasons.

The point of this thread was to link actors who played a character to later play another character that could have easily been the first character. The posters of this thread generally agreed that it was simply avoided so the studio didn't have to pay the original writers to use already existing characters, but once they casted Marc Alaimo, before they shot the first episode, the story could have been changed making Dukat Macet, adjusting whatever story they intended to make to fit accordingly.

While there are certainly some situations where money and paying royalties was the factor in why the original character that actor played wasn't brought back (like with Nick Locarno and Tom Paris) it's not the case all the time. Sometimes writers just want to create a new character and producers or directors just want to cast an actor they know and like. Why can't the same actor play multiple roles? What is wrong with Marc Alaimo being two different Cardassians?

I never said anything was wrong with it, it just would have connected the series a bit more in my opinion.

 

[The Wormhole]

And I know Memory Alpha calls K'mPec the Klingon Chancellor. TNG/DS9 only started using that because that's what Gorkon was called in TUC.

Actually, Chancellor is first used in Redemption Part 1, which predates TUC by six months.

I never said anything was wrong with it, it just would have connected the series a bit more in my opinion.

Or it could have created Small Universe Syndrome.