lucystillintheskywithdiamonds

kajunpak't;; courage

beifongdynasty

More and more when you see the fans it makes sense, like I had somebody—it started sort of normally: “I just wanted to thank you, it was very important… When I went to my first foster home, we went to the living room they turned on their TV, and your face was on the screen, and we all sat and watched that show.” He said, “I think you just became my mother-figure, you became sort of this voice of reason.” Then we were talking and I thought isn’t that interesting and then he said, “and you know, through all 12 foster homes.” And I was like [visibly taken aback] — from all 12 foster homes you were the constant because your show was on the air, and you were the constant in my life. You take what you can get, and if you get constancy from watching a figure on television, and that’s going to help you survive—that’s great.

— Gates McFadden, on why Star Trek gives people hope [x]

startrekstuff

Marc Alaimo as Gul Macet [top pic], as Gul Dukat [middle-left], Mary Crosby as Natima Lang [middle-right], and Andrew Robinson, with makeup but without Garak’s clothes [bottom pic]. Makeup extends quite a way under the costume, to ensure that no ‘humanity’ shows up on camera.

“The first Cardassian was Marc Alaimo, who later went on to play a Cardassian on Deep Space Nine. I already had a cast of Marc’s head from Lonely Among Us, a first-season role on TNG. […]

Marc has an extremely long neck. I was asked to come up with a concept for the Cardassians at a time when nobody really had any ideas about what they should look like. I knew what Marc Alaimo looked like, and I already had a cast of him. The producers told me they didn’t want a full head appliance for the Cardassian, but, following Gene’s rules, the Cardassian had to be humanoid looking and interact with the Starfleet personnel. I had to look for features that would define the Cardassian.

With Marc’s long neck, it screamed at me to do something with it. That’s where I began. I extended his look, which was a natural feature, almost into the look of a king cobra. This is how I combined an actor’s appearance with my file of recognizable animal shapes. The point of recognition was a deadly snake, which by the way, ultimately defined the essence of menace of the Cardassians.

I started with exoskeletal ridges of bone along the sides of the Cardassian neck, just like a snake, and connected them behind the ears. Then, to fill in the area between the ears and the jawline, we built up bony ridges, did away with the human nose completely, and then I had the forehead left. What was I going to do with the forehead?

A year before I did the Cardassians, I was going to a Thai restaurant in Studio City. There was an art gallery next door and inside was a big picture on the wall of a woman with a spoon in the middle of her forehead. I said to my wife ‘I’m going to remember this. Someday I’m going to use this.’”

- Michael Westmore on the initial design of Gul Macet, the first Cardassian, played by Marc Alaimo.

“The Cardassian makeup [in Deep Space Nine] is essentially the original makeup that Marc Alaimo wore in TNG, with the exception of the facial hair, which was removed. The makeup department added new molds and resculpted the shoulders, earpieces, and the noses, making them more in keeping with the serpentine look of the species, but nothing basic was changed between TNG and DS9.”

– on Deep Space Nine Cardassians.

_{Source: Star Trek Aliens & Artifacts [Michael Westmore et al.] 2000}

noxzaiden

A coloration of @ionahi​‘s Spock. 
[and yes he is my favorite~]

“Being split in two halves is no theory with me, Doctor. I have a human half, you see, as well as an alien half, submerged, constantly at war with each other. Personal experience, Doctor. I survive it because my intelligence wins out over both, makes them live together. Your intelligence would enable you to survive as well.”

s-opal

Simon Pegg I’ll print and put on my wall of fame, based on my favourite photo of him - his portrait should’ve been there ages ago

Here’s to the man who had a huge influence on the way I look at comedy and storytelling

thetwelfthpanda

Is he important to you, more important than anything? Is he as though he were a part of you?