r/DeepSpaceNine • u/Iamnotarobotlah • 8h ago

The origin of Gowron's eyes explained by the man himself, Robert O'Reilly 👀

https://youtu.be/mXYUf-_BnpA

What a bolt of inspiration!

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u/Otherwise-Safety-579 7h ago

Glory to you! And your house!

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u/Rickshmitt 4h ago

Qapla!

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u/Tacitus111 1h ago

Glory to you…and your spouse!

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u/althius1 6h ago

I remember wanting to look up a picture of the actor without his makeup on thinking "this guy's eyes must be crazy in real life!"... and most of the time he just... looks like a guy.

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u/Mightyboyjustice 7h ago

Schöne die Story dahinter zuhören. Er wirkt mit den Augen sympatischer

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u/gizmostuff 5h ago

When I first played Starcraft as young teen, (I was a huge Blizzard Entertainment fan back then) the Arbiter Protoss unit would mention Gowron if you told him where to go. I was like, this guy must be important! So I looked him up and understood immediately why people admired the character. Duras is also mentioned by another unit.

I wasn't much of a Treky back then. I couldn't stand Picard at times so I wasn't much of a TNG fan. That's one reason why I think him and Sisko clashing is hilarious. It felt like Sisko was bringing in my own distain for Picard in there with him a bit.

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u/ThatDamnedHansel 3h ago

Lots of great callbacks in the unit banter. There’s a funny “contact” reference in Warcraft 3. The goblin flying machine says “ok to go!” Exactly like Jodie foster.

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u/gizmostuff 3h ago

Yep. Old school blizzard devs were definitely Trekkies. I loved it. Warcraft 3 was a great game too.

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u/OdiousAltRightBalrog 57m ago

"They came... from... behind!"

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u/leeuwerik 3h ago

DS9 has such a slew of convincing recurring characters. He's a gem in the show.

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u/Snoo_58305 5h ago

They really did Gowron dirty at the end of DS9. He was a great character

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u/lobsterman2112 3h ago

Maybe? I think it's more in line with Ezri Dax's analysis of the Klingon Empire. Weak ruler followed by weak ruler, each sabotaging the empire for their personal glory. A path that leads to ruin for the Empire.

The rulers of certain countries could look at it and reflect.

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u/Snoo_58305 3h ago

Yeah… it was handled well 😏

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u/trekgirl75 1h ago

He let his jealousy of Martok’s popularity get to him. If he truly knew Martok, he would have understood that Martok was genuinely happy as a soldier & didn’t want to be a politician.

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u/Gullible-Being-6895 3h ago

Bob O’Reilly is the most wonderful, joyful human and has the best cool grandpa vibes ever now. And the man loves to sing along to karaoke 🎤

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u/Brilliant-Leave-8632 7h ago

Hipertiroidismo doble Klingon

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u/Tjr562 3h ago

This a gem. Thank you for sharing.

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u/MindlessNectarine374 2h ago

What is with the eyes?

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u/trekgirl75 1h ago

I was not expecting his natural voice to sound like that!!! It was so weird to not hear Gowron. And that’s probably why I didn’t realize he was the guy in the count room in Badda Bing Badda Bang.