Doohan's Mustache
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Shatner has donned a few over the years:
As have Takei, Koenig, Kelley and Nimoy:
Cool pics! I think they all should have had a moustache!
I really did think that Mr. Scott was being played as a different actor, until I actually saw the movie, but I never realized that was him on Star Command also. I'm not sure I quite understood the difference between actor and character at that age.
Man, that picture set is just a buffet of murderers Lieutenant Columbo is ready to put away.
He would've looked like TOS Doohan but with greyer hair and a few extra wrinkles.
He'd gained weight, but ultimately a person's face doesn't change that much in older age.Compare Jonathan Frakes sans beard in "Star Trek: Insurrection", with Jonathan Frakes in season one of TNG, and in the ensuing decade he had weathered pretty well. He looks almost the same, just older.
It does go to show just how much difference facial hair can make to our perception of a person's look...
Speak for yourself. After Frakes shaved off his beard in Insurrection, I fixated on his eye bags for the rest of the movie.
Some years ago, I shaved off a beard I'd been wearing for maybe the last fifteen years, just to see how I'd look without it.
Bad idea! My face had wrinkles I've never seen, including deep creases at the corners of my mouth that made me look like some villain, even though I'm a famously nice guy (honest)!
That was my last close shave. The beard was working its way back within a week or so.
Bad idea! My face had wrinkles I've never seen, including deep creases at the corners of my mouth that made me look like some villain, even though I'm a famously nice guy (honest)!
That was my last close shave. The beard was working its way back within a week or so.
Speaking of the OT, in the new Return to Tomorrow book about TMP Doohan explains the stache, saying he "has a small mouth" and that he think it looks better with the stache. he told Roddenberry he was going to keep it and implied Gene wasn't happy, but Bob Wise was okay with it.
So now you know.
So now you know.
Army personnel are allowed to have a mustache, as long as it is trimmed and doesn't go past the edges of the mouth.
When I was in I remember seeing Navy officers around, I could have swore I saw one with a beard. So they may differ.
If military personnel have skin, autoimmune, or follicular conditions, they have the option of growing in a full beard, as long as it is kept to a certain length, somewhere around a quarter inch. Maybe half and inch.
Although what that means is at a CO's discretion. My dad had a commander once who didn't like facial hair, so he enforced the rule so hard that his men had to choose between looking like Hitler and getting rid of their mustaches altogether.
... was just epic. I never had any problems with Doohan's Scotty having a mustache in the films.
Facial hair is a blessing or a curse to males of our species.
My dad has had a mustache for as long as I can remember, and for a while had a Van Dyke (heretofore referred to as a "goatee").
I've had a mustache since I could grow one, for the better part of 40 years. The last couple of decades I've had a goatee. For the past couple of months I've let my beard grow and I've gone back and forth on whether to keep it. To look "respectable," having a beard is a lot of work and while it grows in I look like a homeless half-shaved monkey. The jury is still out.
As for Doohan's mustache, that's how he was comfortable. It didn't detract from his character. Since he kept it until the day he died, I'd say he was pretty satisfied with it.
My dad has had a mustache for as long as I can remember, and for a while had a Van Dyke (heretofore referred to as a "goatee").
I've had a mustache since I could grow one, for the better part of 40 years. The last couple of decades I've had a goatee. For the past couple of months I've let my beard grow and I've gone back and forth on whether to keep it. To look "respectable," having a beard is a lot of work and while it grows in I look like a homeless half-shaved monkey. The jury is still out.
As for Doohan's mustache, that's how he was comfortable. It didn't detract from his character. Since he kept it until the day he died, I'd say he was pretty satisfied with it.
Facial hair is a blessing or a curse to males of our species.
My dad has had a mustache for as long as I can remember, and for a while had a Van Dyke (heretofore referred to as a 'goatee'.
I've had a mustache since I could grow one, for the better part of 40 years. The last couple of decades I've had a goatee. For the past couple of months I've let my beard grow and I've gone back and forth on whether to keep it. To look "respectable" having a beard is a lot of work and while it grows in I look like a homeless half-shaved monkey. The jury is still out.
I always laugh when people comment how "easy" it must be to have a beard, usually by implying that I don't have to spend extra time shaving before going to work in the morning (anybody who has actually had a beard will realise how foolish that statement is; if anything, having a beard is actually *more* work, because you have to take extra time to keep it trimmed if you don't want to just look like a mountain man
).I've flip-flopped on facial hair over the years. I usually grow a beard in winter and shave it off in summer, and I can usually justify that to people for purely pragmatic reasons.
I remember hearing one soldier complaining that Hitler's mustache would be okay, but Mark Twain's would get you in trouble.
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