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 <title>Gherkin ☑️ (thelastgherkin)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-14 17:58:12 UTC</title>
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 <html>@&lt;span class=&quot;vcard&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://rainbowdash.net/user/9&quot; class=&quot;url&quot; title=&quot;Rarity&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;fn nickname mention&quot;&gt;rarity&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &amp;quot;Jayson Thiessen, the show's director, stated that the character Discord was &amp;quot;straight off Lauren [Faust]'s pen&amp;quot; and was inspired by John de Lancie's popular character Q from the Star Trek television series. At first, the production was planning on having a voice actor that sounded like de Lancie, and were later thrilled to find that they could have de Lancie himself for the part.&amp;quot;  So no.</html>
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