• Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.world
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        1 month ago

        In a weird way this humanized the Jem Hadar. It gave then a motivation beyond killing or conquering that made them more relatable than, say, the Borg or Species 8517.

        Thanks for posting this thread and giving me a whole new appreciate for this actor and his characters. 🖖

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      1 month ago

      When I was a kid, I came up with a theory that the jemhadar had no individual names, like the Borg. Everyone in a jem hadar unit was whatever prefix Remata or Omata etc refered to the name of the unit. Clan was added because they were all a cohort of a dozen or so people. And that the only way to distinguish amongst themselves was their rank, solidifying the whole “order brings victory, victory is life” mantra.

      I know now that doesn’t really work but hey, I had fun thinking it up.