The one that immediately came to mind for me as my favorite is Omet’iklan, played to the hilt by Clarence Williams III. Remata’Klan was also a stone-cold bad-ass, so maybe it’s to toss up.
When I was a kid, I came up with a theory that the hen hadar 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.
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. 🖖
The one that immediately came to mind for me as my favorite is Omet’iklan, played to the hilt by Clarence Williams III. Remata’Klan was also a stone-cold bad-ass, so maybe it’s to toss up.
When I was a kid, I came up with a theory that the hen hadar 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.
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. 🖖