Anyone dislike Kirk's hair in the TOS movies?

[Trekfan12]

I think his hair didn't look that great when he was doing TJ Hooker. I thought the hair looked pretty natural during the underwater scenes in IV. The way it parted as he swam. I don't know what they had for men going bald in the '60s. I remember watching an ep of "I Love Lucy." Where Ricky was afraid he was going bald, and Lucy was tired of hearing him complaining so she went to some hair shop and they had some wild ideas of how to grow hair again. And she came up with some of her own wild ideas and used them on Ricky.

 

[mos6507]

I think had they somehow perfected the Trek VI toupe and used it all the way back in TMP onward (with progressive grey) that it would have been an easier transition from TOS due to the widow's peak/cowlick addition.

You can see in this sideways shot that it's allowed to be "thin" in the front which provides a great illusion of it being natural rather than going from the "thin" of kirk-lace in TOS to the completely solid rug in TMP.

 

[CommanderRaytas]

When I was a little kid, I thought that the people playing Kirk and company in the old show and the people playing them in the movies were not the same at all. That was when I was, like, five, and TFF came out. I watched a lot of TOS with my older sister when I was tiny, and my baby brain couldn't cope with the fact that when people grow older, their looks change.

 

[mos6507]

When I was a little kid, I thought that the people playing Kirk and company in the old show and the people playing them in the movies were not the same at all. That was when I was, like, five, and TFF came out. I watched a lot of TOS with my older sister when I was tiny, and my baby brain couldn't cope with the fact that when people grow older, their looks change.

I think it's really James Doohan's appearance that changed the most. He looks very different fat with a mustache. The most TOS-like he looked was TMP but he put on weight by Khan and was ballooning up at a faster rate than Shatner who kept his waistline mostly together until around Trek V.

 

[CommanderRaytas]

Oh, yes. I remember not wanting to believe my parents when they assured me that those were all the same actors.

 

[Trekkin]

I watched a Sun afternoon rerun of Space Seed with my sister, when she was staying with me a while back. She'd grown up with me watching the movies and Boston Legal, but she'd never seen any of TOS before.

She boggled a bit about Khan being Grandad from Spy Kids. Mostly because she worked out that made Montalban a lot older than she'd assumed.

But she flat out didn't believe me when I pointed out the 'hot guy ' was Shatner.

 

[Khan 2.0]

When I was a little kid, I thought that the people playing Kirk and company in the old show and the people playing them in the movies were not the same at all. That was when I was, like, five, and TFF came out. I watched a lot of TOS with my older sister when I was tiny, and my baby brain couldn't cope with the fact that when people grow older, their looks change.

same here - as a kid thought Kirk and Scotty were different actors to the tv show. because they styled their hair different and looked abit older? wtf was I smoking back then lol

 

[arch101]

It's too bad Shatner never came to terms with his hair like, say, Sean Connery did. Connery was wearing a piece when he was Bond in the '60s, and it became more obvious as hairstyles got thicker by 1970. Note the atrocious rug in Diamonds of Forever, which people often miss because of Jill St. John. Sir Sean essentially stopped wearing a rug in public, only using them when playing movie roles.

 

[Commander Richard]

I think it's really James Doohan's appearance that changed the most. He looks very different fat with a mustache.

Yeah, when I was younger, I thought that the movies had a different guy playing Scotty.

 

[Captain Clark Terrell]

^A while back, someone was asking similar questions regarding why Avery Brooks and Jonathan Frakes were replaced on their respective series. I guess they were unaware that actors can shave their heads or grow beards.

 

[Phil123]

I don't think he ever had a wig. I think in TOS (asides from being younger) his hair had been heavily styled - you can see how shiny with product it is - and in the movies it was just his hair as is. Which works for me. Older men with heavily styled hair can look a little desperate. Age gracefully. Certainly fits in with Gene's thoughts about no one caring about Picard being bald.
(hope I haven't offended anyone with the desperate comment.)

 

[urbandefault]

I don't think he ever had a wig. I think in TOS (asides from being younger) his hair had been heavily styled - you can see how shiny with product it is - and in the movies it was just his hair as is. Which works for me. Older men with heavily styled hair can look a little desperate. Age gracefully. Certainly fits in with Gene's thoughts about no one caring about Picard being bald.
(hope I haven't offended anyone with the desperate comment.)

Here's a good read if you have a few days to kill.

http://shatnerstoupee.blogspot.com/2009/

 

[JonnyQuest037]

Yeah, when I was younger, I thought that the movies had a different guy playing Scotty.

Same here. To be fair, I was only 7 when TMP came out.

 

[Mad Jack Wolfe]

I recall reading a review of ST:TWoK when it premiered, and one of the first criticisms made was how Shatner's perm and the new maroon uniform made him look "like a California dentist". As you might guess, the rest of the review wasn't terribly complimentary either.

 

[Mudd]

Does anyone not?

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

I think it's really James Doohan's appearance that changed the most. He looks very different fat with a mustache.

For a while, whenever I tried to picture AOS Scotty when I was thinking about the new films, I imagined later TOS movies Scotty.

 

[JonnyQuest037]

I recall reading a review of ST:TWoK when it premiered, and one of the first criticisms made was how Shatner's perm and the new maroon uniform made him look "like a California dentist".

I've never gotten a dentist vibe from Kirk in the monster maroons. His white short sleeve shirt in TMP, however...

 

[Captain Clark Terrell]

I've never gotten a dentist vibe from Kirk in the monster maroons. His white short sleeve shirt in TMP, however...

That was not a good look for him. I actually really liked his TMP admiral's uniform and wish he'd kept his flag rank just so he'd have been able continue wearing it.

 

[Mad Jack Wolfe]

I've never gotten a dentist vibe from Kirk in the monster maroons. His white short sleeve shirt in TMP, however...

Me neither, which I suppose is why I remember such an odd comment after all this time. The critic seemed irrationally upset that they had even made another Star Trek film.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

What's with all the deep v necks?