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Why was DeForest in old-man makeup?

The weird thing is, apparently they were originally going to use less severe old-age make-up than they actually ended up going with, but then the order came down on high (presumably from Roddenberry or Justman) to make McCoy look like he had during TOS's "The Deadly Years."

The screen test is better for the uniform alone. But gene hated the bennet movies. *shrug*
 
It can't be used as a metric for young though can it? Especially in an industry of image. I'm not trying to insult anyone, or suggest he's bad looking. Many think quite the opposite, but it's hardly fair to say gray hair doesn't elicit associations of old age. It's one of the most noticeable effects of getting older. Coupled with male pattern baldness, which isn't exactly the same as voluntarily shaving bald, & yes it does evoke an image of aging.

Stewart is quite possibly the most confident man to EVER sport the male pattern baldness look, but he did look 50 when he was 44, & it wasn't just balding & graying that did it. It's his genetics.

This is Jared Leto at 47, who still looks 27, & a dark haired, full hair piece wearing Stewart at 35, with wrinkles, creases, furls, etc... His face has looked miraculously the same for 40 years, that is to say... not youthful
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You're right. However in looking at the above shots of Leto and Stewart BOTH appeal less to me that bald Picard :shrug:
 
Jeanne Louise Calment (1875-1997) At ages 40, 60, 120.
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Leonard H. McCoy (2227-????) At Ages 40, 60, 137.
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I'd say old Bones is looking pretty good, for being 15 years older than the oldest living person in recorded history

You're right. However in looking at the above shots of Leto and Stewart BOTH appeal less to me that bald Picard :shrug:
Frankly, Stewart always looked better without hair
 
I think if you compare the All Good Things make-up to how they all turned out, it wasn't too bad. Except Gates had more work done than Beverley Picard, and Brent has more than a streak of grey...

Next year will mark twenty five years since AGT. Someone should do a comparison to see how everyone ended up (since Picard moved ahead twenty five years).
 
Jeanne Louise Calment (1875-1997) At ages 40, 60, 120.
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Leonard H. McCoy (2227-????) At Ages 40, 60, 137.
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I'd say old Bones is looking pretty good, for being 15 years older than the oldest living person in recorded history

Frankly, Stewart always looked better without hair

Off-topic a bit; imagine the life you'd have living from 1875 to the 1990s. Just, seriously.
 
Off-topic a bit; imagine the life you'd have living from 1875 to the 1990s. Just, seriously.
Steam engines to satellites. Rotary printing press to world-wide web. The beginnings of the German Empire, 2 world wars, & the rise & fall of Soviet Russia. Lived through 25 of the 45 U.S. presidents, from Grant to Clinton. Pretty much twice as long as anyone in that time was expected to live. 2 life times. That 1st photo is basically right around when they began having film photography, & the 2nd was around WW1, the 3d is after she'd outlived the Soviet Union
 
...I wonder how that works in the Trek reality. Did McCoy live in The Century When Everything Happened, as compared to the classmates of George Kirk or William Riker? Or does everybody, always, live in The Century When Everything Happened - as compared to those who came before him or her?

ITRW, the accelerating pace and increasing reach of things takes care of lives being increasingly interesting on the average. The Federation isn't shown accelerating much, instead inventing few new tech and adopting few new practices between 2161 and ST:NEM (although we miss out on the decades when replicators and holodecks supposedly produced a big change). But the Federation does keep expanding, arguably making history more intense by the year.

Janeway's crew does feel McCoy lived through some pretty savage times. But do they envy him for interesting times?

Timo Saloniemi
 
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