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   From: robhorine711@yahoo.com   
      
   "David E. Powell"  wrote in message   
   news:1186530194.541308.65810@k79g2000hse.googlegroups.com...   
   > My personal standout was in the episode where he and Sisko crash   
   > landed on some planet somewhere, and Dukat beat Sisko up. Now, this   
   > wasn't the standard "Two punches and a double axe handle' Star Trek   
   > beatdown. No. Dukat literally spent what seemed like half the episode   
   > physically beating the hell out of Sisko and mentally berating him to   
   > the point where he almost died. It was almost worse than that other   
   > Cardassian torturing Picard because Dukat wasn't using "technology"   
   > and was just so nasty about it. Also Dukat wasn't "Cold and   
   > professional" he was just completely, totally insane. It was like   
   > "Holy crap I can't believe this is TV," Much less Star Trek. The bad   
   > guy never spends a whole episode just beating the snot out of the main   
   > hero like that but Dukat did in this one. I still can't believe they   
   > did that. Serious balls from the writers and both actors involved. A   
   > lot of leading men probably wouldn't want to do a scene like that but   
   > Avery Brooks went full bore with it.   
   >   
   > Other standouts were all of the early shows and the whole "Xiyal"   
   > daughter angle. Hey, all of the Dukat stuff was written and executed   
   > huge. Definitely a great character. Caught a couple "tribute videos"   
   > on Youtube today, brought back memories.   
   >   
   > I also love that, after all that had gone on in their lives, he still,   
   > even to the end, thought he could seduce Kira.   
      
   Did the guy who played him die?   
      
      
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