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Marc Alaimo was not the first choice to play Dukat. For “Emissary”, another actor was initially cast in the role. (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion, p. 717) According to one of the episode’s call sheets, this actor was apparently Michael McRae. This is probably, however, a misspelling, as there is no actor with that name on IMDb, though a similarly named Michael MacRae was, at the time the installment was shot, a prolific actor. On the fourth day of the episode’s production, the original performer of Dukat was involved in filming of the scene from “Emissary” in which the character visits DS9. After that day’s shooting, the producers decided they had miscast. (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion, p. 717) Hence, according to Day 5-7 call sheet for “Emissary”, the actor was put on “hold”. The original actor seemed to lack a particular sense of presence, so the part was recast. “It was either Mike Piller or Rick Berman who finally said, ‘Let’s get Marc Alaimo,’” related Ira Steven Behr. (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion, p. 16)

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Ok so I had this image set queued but I need to bring it up now.

For some reason left Dukat has been haunting my computer.

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This image. This fucking image. He shows up in my clipboard when I least expect it. I’ve been playing Dark Forces II, a 1997 game which I can’t use fraps on so I’ll do printscreen and usually it works.

But once in a while.

Dukat will show up instead.

I don’t know why. Maybe it’s a compatibility issue. 

Maybe it’s something else. I’ve certainly copy pasted other stuff since. As far as I know, when you have text in a clipboard there’s no image.

Not with Dukat. He can do both. He can be an image file in one app and just a couple of lines of copy/paste text I wanted to send someone.

I’m not 100% sure if I’ve already rebooted my computer already, I think I have. I may have to face the fact that Gul Dukat, face eternally frozen in shock, may be haunting my computer.

He’s shown up maybe 3-4 times so far…

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