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Oh my child (i.imgur.com)

“My child, if I thought the Prophets wanted you to know the purpose of my visit, I would have informed you of it in advance.”

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[-] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 65 points 10 months ago

this actress was so visceral in her performance as to emotionally scar multiple generations of humans.

if thats not successful acting, i dont know what is

[-] 7u5k3n@lemmy.world 55 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

She triggers me every single time she shows up on rewatches.

Louise Fletcher from all accounts was a lovely human. But man she plays bitch wonderfully

[-] satanmat@lemmy.world 42 points 10 months ago

In. Everything. She. Ever. Did.

One flew over the cuckoo nest

Flowers in the Attic

Ds9 — here’s the thing— IMDB only lists her as being in 14 !!!! Episodes.

[-] EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 26 points 10 months ago

She's only in 14 fucking episodes??

[-] satanmat@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago

Ikr. I couldn’t believe that. I had to go and double check.

But yeah. What an amazing presence

[-] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

But will you ever forget her?

[-] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

Flowers in the Attic

Now there's some fucked up memories. Side note: never eat unbaked almonds.

[-] armus@startrek.website 37 points 10 months ago

She put on a masterclass of making the audience uncomfortable in every single scene she was in, incredible

[-] PlasmaDistortion@lemm.ee 19 points 10 months ago

I get irrationally angry whenever I see her. What we really needed was for Garak to teach her a lesson in humility.

[-] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

Garak knew that he might have to assassinate her someday. It would make his innocence much more plausible if it was clear they'd never had any interaction with one another. Besides...

"Would a simple tailor assassinate a Kai?! Oh come now constable, I've never even talked to her. Oh, I'd see her from time to time crossing the promenade, but if that were the only thing that would qualify me as an assassin, then you should lock me to protect the life of a quarter of Starfleet's finest officers, not to mention entire Bajoran delegations, Klingon High Council members, and the Grand Nagas while you're at it. Now really constable, I respect your authority on this station and wish you luck in your search for an assassin, but I have a customer that needs an urgent hem for a dinner party tonight."

Pauses for a moment and looks Odo up and down

"If you'd like me to take look at your uniform, I could fix that hem too"

as Odo looks at his feet Garak disappears

[-] grue@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

Huh, I never thought about that. I don't think Garak ever had a single interaction with her, kinda like Korbin and Zorg in The Fifth Element.

[-] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Didn't Korbin see Zorg (or Zorg see Korbin) crossing the end of a hallway on the Fhloston paradise ship as it was falling apart in the third act?

[-] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

Not quite. Corbin and crew enter an elevator on the right, where after Zorg exits the left completely missing each other.

[-] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Thank you for that. I knew it was fleeting, I had forgotten they JUUUUST missed each other.

[-] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Probably the only time they were on set together.

[-] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Somewhere must exist some Beta canon story where they've read each others reports, make a concerned effort not to cross paths, but still snoop.

[-] nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 months ago

I get irrationally angry at her too but then I remember her goofy ass at the end screaming nonsense at the space demons hoping she's going to get superpowers or whatever.

[-] Australis13@fedia.io 13 points 10 months ago

Yep. There are few characters I hate more. Brilliant actress.

[-] ElBarto@sh.itjust.works 19 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

She's been traumatizing generations upon generations, mentioning nurse Ratchet to boomers and order and they will react in a similar way to us being asked about Kai Winn.

Edit: she deserves as many awards as she can handle for her acting skills.

It's easy to play a villain, it's not easy to play a person so utterly detestable and vile that the simple thought of her causes a physical reaction.

I can never hear the words "my child" and not think of her.

[-] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

Kai Opaka, because she's still alive on that planet where no one can die, should still be only Kai.

[-] PlasmaDistortion@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

I wish they would have gone back and done a follow up episode on this.

[-] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

"Kai Opaka, its great to see you again! Your successor decided to betray the profits, join up with Gul Dukat and worship the Pah-wraiths. So we need a new Kai again. Any chance you'd be willing to work remote and we just give you a communications terminal here on this planet and you can phone in your wisdom from the prophets?"

[-] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 56 points 10 months ago
[-] vexikron@lemmy.zip 19 points 10 months ago

Garak's alignment is:

Chaotic-Whatever Makes For A Better Story 5 Years Later

[-] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 6 points 10 months ago

There he is!

[-] Maalus@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

He would've been a grey circle with a dot that is rainbow colored

[-] Etterra@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

Show of hands, who thinks this bitch was worse than Umbridge in Harry Potter?

[-] PlasmaDistortion@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago

Oh absolutely! (The character, not the actor)

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

I wouldn't call her a Karen. She doesn't want to talk to the manager, she wants to be the manager.

[-] Etterra@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Did anyone else laugh when she died? I laughed when she died.

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