Through idiomatic usage, dampener has taken the same meaning as damper, but as my dynamics professor was fond of saying, one of them terms means to slow motion, the other means to get something wet.
I heard that’s the same reason that they kept the title Karate Kid for the remake in which he learned Kung-Fu instead of Karate. It would have been too easy to put a C in the middle of Kung-Fu Kid.
I think the serialized format it eventually took on is what has kept it from wider syndication. Most of the time shows are in syndication, the network picks and chooses the most popular episodes, whereas with DS9, it would be very hard to skip through a lot of the episodes without making it hard to follow. Essentially, it is far more suited for streaming services.
He's such a versatile actor (beehaw.org)
Borgus, Boims, and Bean: One fat, one short, one lean (files.catbox.moe)
Happy 74th Birthday Armin Shimerman! (lemmy.world)
Known as the feisty Ferengi Quark and, I hear, one hell of a caddy.
Where Obi Wan threatens R2 to keep his dirty droid mouth shut about everything he saw the past fourty years: war crimes, births and deaths, betrayals, sand, His New Empire? (dmv.social)
Poor R4…
More like guidelines (lemmy.world)
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We don't judge here. :) (mander.xyz)
They don't know (lemmy.zip)
How is this not the worst episode of DS9? (lemmy.world)
Yeah, tell me more about these both scenarios (lemmy.world)