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Gorkon ’ s daughter, Azetbur, becomes the new Chancellor, and pushes forward with diplomatic negotiations ; for reasons of security, the conference's location is kept a secret.
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Gorkon and daughter
There is one known time when a Chancellor named his own successor-shortly after the Praxis explosion Chancellor Gorkon named his daughter Azetbur as Chancellor in the event of his death.
)-The daughter of Gorkon, named Chancellor after Gorkon's assassination.
As the new chief of staff, Chang accompanied Gorkon and his daughter, Azetbur, to meet with the Federation President.
She is best known for her roles in Stand and Deliver, for which she won an Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female, and in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country as Azetbur, the daughter of Klingon Chancellor Gorkon.
Gorkon and Azetbur
The main Klingons are portrayed by Christopher Plummer as Chang, David Warner as Gorkon, and Rosanna DeSoto as Azetbur.
Gorkon and new
Dodie Shepard designed new red and black uniforms for Chancellor Gorkon and his staff, as it was judged that it would be unseemly for the chancellor to wear common warrior garb.
A phrase from The Tempest is mentioned by Gorkon as representing the new galactic order, that of a " brave new world ".
It also meant that Chang was honor-bound to accept Gorkon as the new Klingon leader.
* A Good Day to Die ( 2003 ): The Gorkon finds a new planet, whose population is even more warlike than the Klingons
Gorkon and Chancellor
The Shakespearian choices were inspired by a remark from High Chancellor Gorkon in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, who said, " You have not experienced Shakespeare until you have read him in the original Klingon.
In Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, Worf's grandfather Colonel Worf ( also portrayed by Michael Dorn ) appears in a role as the legal advocate of Captain James T. Kirk and Dr. Leonard McCoy after they are accused of killing Chancellor Gorkon of the Klingon High Council.
Accepting the proposal before the Klingons adopt a more belligerent approach, Starfleet sends the USS Enterprise-A to meet with the Klingon Chancellor, Gorkon, and escort him to negotiations on Earth.
Other " nice guy " roles include the charismatic " Aldous Gajic " in " Grail ", a first season ( 1994 ) episode of Babylon 5 and " Chancellor Gorkon " in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country ( 1991 ).
This was later entered into live-action canon in the movie Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country when Captain Kirk and Doctor McCoy are on trial for the death of the Klingon Chancellor Gorkon.
* Chancellor Gorkon (?
The impetus for the project came from a line from the motion picture Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country in which the Klingon Chancellor Gorkon stated:
The speech explicitly describes said country as " after death " ( line 78 ), whereas Chancellor Gorkon interprets it as " the future ".
Gorkon and ;
" The story deliberately included references to the contemporary political climate ; the character of Gorkon was based on Mikhail Gorbachev, while the assassination storyline was Meyer's idea.
Scholars have noted that the Klingons, not humans, are the ones who quote Shakespeare ; Gorkon claims at one point in the film that " You have not experienced Shakespeare until you have read him in the original Klingon.
The Vulcan sees the Gorkon peace initiative as logical, responding to the sudden change in the status quo in a collected manner ; he even opens the peace dialog at the behest of his father.
Gorkon and for
Meyer came upon the idea of having assassins in special boots kill a weightless Gorkon after searching for a novel way to " blow away " the character in space that had not been seen before.
Chang's worst fears came to life when Gorkon turned to the Federation for help.
Gorkon and is
Gorkon is a series of novels by Keith R. A. DeCandido, the first Star Trek novel series to feature the Klingons instead of Starfleet.
Gorkon is the name of a three-book series written by Keith R. A. DeCandido and published by Pocket Books that takes place in the fictional Star Trek universe.
The Gorkon is a Chancellor-class war cruiser, named after the Klingon chancellor Gorkon.
* Honor Bound ( 2003 ): The Gorkon is engaged in a Klingon civil war
* A Burning House ( 2008 ): The Gorkon is forced to return to Qo ' noS to undergo repairs.
Gorkon and .
During the confusion, two figures wearing Starfleet suits and gravity boots beam aboard the Klingon ship and grievously wound Gorkon.
The role of Gorkon was initially offered to Jack Palance.
The design changes forced Kenny Myers to abdicate his other makeup job, that of Warner's Gorkon, to Margaret Bessera.
In Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, the Enterprise escorts Klingon chancellor Gorkon ( David Warner ) to a peace summit on Earth.
Kalnor's brother, Melkor, blocked the accession of Gorkon, the former chief of staff who was the legitimate successor.
Chang fought Melkor, but he did not support Gorkon.
As a result, Chang hoped to keep Gorkon from becoming the next leader of the Klingon Empire.
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The AMPAS was originally conceived by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio boss Louis B. Mayer as a professional honorary organization to help improve the film industry ’ s image and help mediate labor disputes.
The International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences defines psychological altruism as " a motivational state with the goal of increasing another ’ s welfare ".
Psychological altruism is contrasted with psychological egoism, which refers to the motivation to increase one ’ s own welfare.
One way is a sincere expression of Christian love, " motivated by a powerful feeling of security, strength, and inner salvation, of the invincible fullness of one ’ s own life and existence ".
Another way is merely " one of the many modern substitutes for love, ... nothing but the urge to turn away from oneself and to lose oneself in other people ’ s business.
* David Firestone-When Romney ’ s Reach Exceeds His Grasp-Mitt Romney quotes the song
" Swift extends the metaphor to get in a few jibes at England ’ s mistreatment of Ireland, noting that " For this kind of commodity will not bear exportation, and flesh being of too tender a consistence, to admit a long continuance in salt, although perhaps I could name a country, which would be glad to eat up our whole nation without it.
George Wittkowsky argued that Swift ’ s main target in A Modest Proposal was not the conditions in Ireland, but rather the can-do spirit of the times that led people to devise a number of illogical schemes that would purportedly solve social and economic ills.
In response, Swift ’ s Modest Proposal was " a burlesque of projects concerning the poor ", that were in vogue during the early 18th century.
Critics differ about Swift ’ s intentions in using this faux-mathematical philosophy.
Charles K. Smith argues that Swift ’ s rhetorical style persuades the reader to detest the speaker and pity the Irish.
Swift ’ s specific strategy is twofold, using a " trap " to create sympathy for the Irish and a dislike of the narrator who, in the span of one sentence, " details vividly and with rhetorical emphasis the grinding poverty " but feels emotion solely for members of his own class.
Swift ’ s use of gripping details of poverty and his narrator ’ s cool approach towards them create " two opposing points of view " that " alienate the reader, perhaps unconsciously, from a narrator who can view with ' melancholy ' detachment a subject that Swift has directed us, rhetorically, to see in a much less detached way.
Once the children have been commodified, Swift ’ s rhetoric can easily turn " people into animals, then meat, and from meat, logically, into tonnage worth a price per pound ".
Swift uses the proposer ’ s serious tone to highlight the absurdity of his proposal.
In making his argument, the speaker uses the conventional, text book approved order of argument from Swift ’ s time ( which was derived from the Latin rhetorician Quintilian ).
James Johnson argued that A Modest Proposal was largely influenced and inspired by Tertullian ’ s Apology: a satirical attack against early Roman persecution of Christianity.
Johnson notes Swift ’ s obvious affinity for Tertullian and the bold stylistic and structural similarities between the works A Modest Proposal and Apology.
He reminds readers that " there is a gap between the narrator ’ s meaning and the text ’ s, and that a moral-political argument is being carried out by means of parody ".
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