Hey, I never noticed that before...." (TNG edition)
- Thread starter Nerys Myk
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You... sensed it?
Watched A Matter of Honor, realized the transporter pad had a squishy surface.
For whatever reason, the effect always seemed much more apparent in Lwaxana than in Troi to me. It looks a little bit freaky, which is a good thing in that it makes her feel at least a little bit alien to me.
It was never more obvious to me than in Tin Man. No one ever looked odder with those black irises than Tam Elbrun, IMHO
That's when I figured it out, that it was all of them. I'd initially thought that it was just Marina's natural color, & I did realize they'd given contacts to Majel, but thought it was to make her look genetically closer to Marina, as her mother... Which actually worked really well, to make them look related TBH
I had forgotten this episode, but I just looked it up on Memory Alpha and you're right that it's very obvious and odd from the screenshots. I like that even when they're not using prosthetics there's something that differentiates the species.
I didn't realize the black irises were supposed to be the Betazoid alien makeup until I read it online.
It doesn't help that there's a rare condition in real life that makes a person's eyes look like that:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aniridia
If eye colour was going to be the only Betazoid trait they could at least have used a weirder/more alien eye colour, like purple or something.
It doesn't help that there's a rare condition in real life that makes a person's eyes look like that:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aniridia
If eye colour was going to be the only Betazoid trait they could at least have used a weirder/more alien eye colour, like purple or something.
You have all blown my mind with this black eye thing.
I have to agree. Until reading this thread I had no idea that they had black eyes. A bit of googling for "betazoid black eyes" returns a relative handful of hits, so it seems to be a fairly obscure fact - presumably the eye colour didn't stand out on standard-definition television.
One of the results is a BBS FAQ from 1995, so it obviously wasn't completely unknown on the internet. It must have been one of those things that was mentioned in the show's initial publicity materials and then never brought up again because it didn't serve a role in the plot and no-one in the show comments about it.
I wonder if anybody turned down the role of Troi specifically because they'd have to spend twenty-six weeks of the year wearing contact lenses for twelve hours a day.
One of the results is a BBS FAQ from 1995, so it obviously wasn't completely unknown on the internet. It must have been one of those things that was mentioned in the show's initial publicity materials and then never brought up again because it didn't serve a role in the plot and no-one in the show comments about it.
I wonder if anybody turned down the role of Troi specifically because they'd have to spend twenty-six weeks of the year wearing contact lenses for twelve hours a day.
It's possible, but I don't think so, the casting call mentions that Troi's alien look "has yet to be determined"
Gene's original idea was that she'd have four breasts, until D.C.Fontana (thankfully) talked him out of it.
Though it does kind of make me wonder what they would have done in case if Sirtis' eyes reacted negatively to the contact lenses, what would Betazoids look like then?
