Chancellor Druhin
- Series
- Stargate Atlantis
- Affiliation
- The Hoffans
- Played by
- Alan Scarfe
The leader of the Hoffan people, ready to sacrifice anything to free his own from the Wraith. Druhin is a leader facing an impossible choice between freedom and survival.
Overview
Chancellor Druhin is the leader of the Hoffans, a Pegasus people who refuse to remain cattle for the Wraith. Buoyed by immense hope, he backs the project for a vaccine meant to make his people deadly to their predators.
His story
Druhin carries the dream of an entire people: an end to the Wraith terror. But the cure he champions comes at a horrifying cost, killing some of those who receive it.
Faced with an unbearable dilemma, Druhin chooses freedom nonetheless, even if the price is paid in human lives. He embodies the leader confronted with impossible decisions, when a people's survival is paid for in sacrifices.
The actor
Druhin is played by Alan Scarfe, a British-Canadian actor with a long career, who has also passed through the Star Trek universe. He gives the Hoffan chancellor a tragic gravitas.
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