No. This is what happened:
This is canon for me now.
Chekov's hair
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This is canon for me now.
Either "Strike Zone" or "A Rock and a Hard Place" began with Riker having just returned from vacation with his new beard, there being a joke about him having more hair on his chin than Picard's whole head.
The wig she wore in the pilot was truly dreadful. (I knew the actress from "Phenom" and couldn't believe what they made her wear in VGR.)
Lien was having trouble with the Kes ears - reacting to the glue and latex, so the longer hair was a way of concealing her ears.
It was Strike Zone. That was the first season-2 novel. A Rock and a Hard Place was the first season 3 novel.
Those books drove PAD nuts, according to his regular "But I Digress..." column at the time. He had to write Crusher out of his proposal for "Strike Zone", and then had to do the same with Pulaski for "A Rock and a Hard Place".
This is a society that can reknit broken bones, and mend skin wounds instantly. Devices to hasten hair growth are probably as ubiquitous as hair dryers and curling irons are today.
Ah, according to this page, they've had the tech to grow out hair by "stimulating hair follicles" since the ENT era...
Good point. The Doctor stimulated Seven of Nine's hair to grow out in what seemed like a matter of hours.
Still, the fact that they dabbled with letting Mulgrew ditch the wig for a week and then put it back on the week after does sort of expose the artifice behind the curtain. I didn't even know her long hair was a wig until that happened.
Then lighter again (Trek VI)
Maybe Chekov had an accident with one of them. Reaches for the blow drier/shampoo and grabs the hair growth device/formula instead...
Maybe it was a transporter accident.
"Beam him up, chief!"
"Captain! He... He is horribly disfigured!"
"Oh my god! Make it go away!"
Was that before or after the one during his ill-fated pie eating contest with Spock?
Both.
We all know what really happened...
Kirk: Um, what's with your hair, Ensign Chekov?
Chekov: Sir! It is to honour one of the greatest bands in the history of Old Earth!
Kirk: Uh... The Beatles?
Chekov: No, sir! I am referring to the Monkees!
Kirk: Aaahh... the giants. Carry on, then, ensign.
Just read the synopsis. Reminds me of Sondheim's Merrily We Roll Along.Star Trek Annual #3, by Peter David & Curt Swan. Published by DC Comics.
The Monkees were a great Russian band--from Lenigrad, of course.
Shouldn't that be Lennongrad?
That should be an entry in a caption contest.
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