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News Brent Spiner Returned for "Picard" (and you could do the CGI better in 15 minutes, we get it)

Is Spiner actually wearing makeup for this? Or have they been able to go the full CG route now? I know in the past, one of the reasons Spiner said he didn't want to play the character any longer was just the makeup, alone.
 
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Is Spiner actually wearing makeup for this? Or have they know been able to go the full CG route now? I know in the past, one of the reasons Spiner said he didn't want to play the character any longer was just the makeup, alone.
Yes, he is very much wearing Makeup, regardless of whether digital touch'ups get done, it would be pointlessly time consuming(and more expensive) to film him with a normal skin, and not contact lenses, then digitally recolor his skin and eyes, certainly that stuff is possible, but it's ridiculously impractical and pointless to do it, and again, expensive, some people think a bit of skin smoothing touch'ups are expensive, just totally doing his makeup from scratch digitally is considerably more, and it would not look nearly as good as having his makeup on him in camera.

Given how long it's been since Brent wore that Make-up, I don't think it's nearly as big an issue to come back and do it for what is likely brief appearances on this show, back when Data was killed off in Nemesis, Brent had been wearing the makeup for a long time, when taking into account the 7 seasons of TV, then 4 movies with a few years in between each, not doubt he was tired of it. but it's been quite some time
 
Insurrection is one of my favorite Trek movies, mainly because it's probably the one that feels the most like an episode with a bigger budget and run time.
Nemesis is pretty my least favorite Trek movie, along with The Final Frontier.
I love both Abrams movies and Beyond.
I didn't remember that.
Were the writers getting ready for the movies and planted explanation why Data would look older if the movies would go on for many years? :)

She's a beta quadrant ship ;)


Probably! They were smart and planned ahead when it became clear they had a hit that might go on for years...
I don't think it's that so much as just covering for the 7 years the show ran. All of the cast, including Spiner, noticeably aged from Encounter At Farpoint to All Good Things...
 
No. Insurrection is a mediocre TNG episode with a modest movie budget, and that's fine as even mediocre TNG episodes are still pretty good. Nemesis on the other hand is an embarrassingly bad action movie and was easily the worst Trek film before Abrams wanted to have a go.

Star Trek V: The Final Frontier says "hello". Unless you meant to say Next Generation Trek movies.
 
TFF should have had the effects quality of NEM, and NEM should have had the epic concept and scope of TFF
 
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