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Originally Posted by mudshark
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Jem'Hadar: Fighting you is one of the most hellish things I've done.
Worf: Don't take this as a dis, but you fight like you're underwater.
Jem'Hadar: Styx and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.
Worf: Good grief, are you twelve?
Jem'Hadar: Ha! I wish!
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There's a joke here, but I'm not sure I'm getting the whole thing. |
Mudshark, you should know better than to ask me for explanations of my jokes, as I will become very long-winded in explaining them:
A very strong influence in my fivers of "In Purgatory's Shadow/By Inferno's Light" came from reading
The Divine Comedy. This scene just reuses imagery of
Inferno over and over. The fighting is hellish. Dis is the only city in Hell, and to get to it, you must cross the River Styx. The wrathful (a perhaps fitting term for the Jem'Hadar) are consigned to the River Styx, explaining why the Jem'Hadar fights like he's underwater. Of course, the last two lines are just jokes in their own rights without any literary references.