Duras wasn't very smart lol..

[desfem79]

I love Sins of the Father (best ever Klingon ep in ALL Trek IMO), but some lines always crease me up. Duras may have been smart in that he was able to plot and scheme but he led himself into easy comebacks :

Duras - You are a fool, and you'll only die a fool's death.
Worf - It is a good day to die, Duras, and the day is not yet over.

Duras - Keep your place, Picard!
Picard - This is my place.
Worf - He is now my cha'dich.
Duras - This is not your world, human. You do not command here.
Picard - I'm not here to command.
Duras - So, you must be here to fight. Something Starfleet doesn't teach you!
Picard - You can test that assumption in your convenience.

Yes, I memorise lines, but then the delivery and tone make it worthwhile haha...

 

[2takesfrakes]

Outstanding quotes and utterances! Agreed, "they" did seem to want to make Duras come across as not very smart ... to make Our Heroes seem more cool. Not that they need it, of course! Especially not Picard and Worf. Duras was OK with me, as a bad guy, but when he killed Worf's mate ... wow ... it was epic when Worf stabbed him with the point of his wobbly attack blade! And later, when Worf spares Duras' little brother, or son, or whomever that was, instead of killing him - even though that went against The Klingon Way ... it kind of made Worf look like a sort of Klingon liberal. Unlike Duras, Worf has a mind ...

 

[Enterprise is Great]

It must run in the family since Duras's 22nd century ancestor Duras was a total idiot as well.

 

[The Overlord]

Duras is like the 24th Century version of Joffrey, a spoiled brat who is not very bright, but has a sense of entitlement due to an inherited position.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

Duras was more like the Klingon version of a US senator.

 

[USS Triumphant]

Duras is like the 24th Century version of Joffrey, a spoiled brat who is not very bright, but has a sense of entitlement due to an inherited position.

I believe you are thinking of Toral, Duras's son.

 

[Darkwing]

Kinda convenient that the Duras family was behind the attack at Khitomer, the Klingon Civil War, the events on the council, etc, and then turn out to have been bad apples in another universe 200 years ago. One-dimensional thinking much?

 

[USS Triumphant]

Kinda convenient that the Duras family was behind the attack at Khitomer, the Klingon Civil War, the events on the council, etc, and then turn out to have been bad apples in another universe 200 years ago. One-dimensional thinking much?

I suppose you complained about Biff Tannen's family, too, didn't you?

 

[Darkwing]

BTTF was a one-off joke of a series, Trek tried to be taken seriously. The whole Tannen thing was pretty cardboard, but the movies were light-hearted fun, so it could be overlooked there.

 

[Trekker4747]

I liked how all superior and holier-than-thou Duras acted around Worf knowing that it was, infact, really HIS father who was the traitor.

 

[JD5000]

Duras' incompetence is played up to enforce his role as the 'pretender to the throne'. It's a common archetype, as The Overlord pointed out, comparable to the character of Joffery in the Game of Thrones series as well as many fictional and real life figures such as Richard III. Of course Duras is an idiot, the plot of those episodes revolves around the protagonists uncovering his family's deceit. If he was smarter, they might not have and it might have been a crappy episode. Also, Worf wouldn't have gotten in as many good lines to boost his stature as an honorable hero.