The makeup for Original Series Klingons

[johnnybear]

I wasn't keen on the idea of a black Vulcan myself! But before anyone accuses me of anything I was one of the first to complain that in the new Battlestar Galactica, Colonel Tigh wasn't black! I liked Terry Carter in the original series quite a lot!
JB

 

[BillJ]

I wasn't keen on the idea of a black Vulcan myself!

Why? Living on a desert planet, seems like more of them would've had darker skin tones.

 

[johnnybear]

Yeah true but with green blood?
JB

 

[Kor]

It's copper-based instead of iron-based like in humans.

Or something like that.

Kor

 

[Christopher]

Yeah true but with green blood?
JB

What has that got to do with skin color? Skin pigmentation comes from the carotene and melanin in the skin itself. The blood underneath just gives it a subtle tinge.

 

[johnnybear]

Well like you say...
JB

 

[Kor]

The inside of Vulcans' mouths, including their gums and tongues, should be greenish instead of pink like in humans. Perhaps that could have been accomplished with food coloring. But it would look really freaking weird.

Kor

 

[Christopher]

The inside of Vulcans' mouths, including their gums and tongues, should be greenish instead of pink like in humans. Perhaps that could have been accomplished with food coloring. But it would look really freaking weird.

I think ENT actually did that with the Andorians, made their mouths blue on the inside.

 

[Longinus]

Tim Russ was a decent Vulcan and I certainly didn't mind his skin colour. However, I wish they had given him traditional Vulcan hair. As silly as that hairdo is, it is part of the iconic Vulcan look.

 

[telerites]

I liked TOS Klingon make-up. The character personality/actor portrayal carried it a long way. I thought Michael Ansara nailed it as Kang in Day of the Dove.

 

[FormerLurker]

Tim Russ was a decent Vulcan and I certainly didn't mind his skin colour. However, I wish they had given him traditional Vulcan hair. As silly as that hairdo is, it is part of the iconic Vulcan look.

Well, we know from TOS (among other productions) that Vulcans can and often have had long hair, curly hair, and that they can go bald. What' the matter with a dark-skinned Vulcan having close-cropped hair that, because it's so short, it's curly?

 

[Kor]

As silly as that hairdo is, it is part of the iconic Vulcan look.

But it isn't.

Vulcanoids didn't all have the exact same bad Moe Howard wigs until TNG. There was quite a variety of hairstyles among all the Vulcans and Romulans shown on TOS and in the TOS movies.

Kor

 

[Longinus]

Vulcanoids didn't all have the exact same bad Moe Howard wigs until TNG. Of all the There was quite a variety of hairstyles among all the Vulcans and Romulans shown on TOS and in the TOS movies.

But Voyager is contemporary with TNG, when the bowlcuts ruled. I guess I got so accustomed with that hairstyle on Vulcanoids that it felt jarring to see one without it. But yeah, maybe there should have been more Vulcan hair variety in TNG rather than Tuvok having a bowlcut too.

 

[Terok Nor]

Tim Russ's hairline always drew my attention for some reason. I thought the whole Tuvok look was pretty cool actually.

 

[STEPhon IT]

Tim Russ's hairline always drew my attention for some reason. I thought the whole Tuvok look was pretty cool actually.

I loved his look as well, the actor has done a great job at portraying a Vulcan; he was my favorite character on Voyager. I'm wondering if Russ was the only Vulcan of color, besides his family in episodes of Voyager, in Star Trek.

 

[Poltargyst]

I was taken aback by a black Vulcan as well. Not so much on racial grounds as on continuity grounds.,.we had never seen a black Vulcan before. But then I remembered...isn't Amanda's Vulcan midwife in Star Trek V black? So now I'm over it.

 

[Nerys Myk]

I loved his look as well, the actor has done a great job at portraying a Vulcan; he was my favorite character on Voyager. I'm wondering if Russ was the only Vulcan of color, besides his family in episodes of Voyager, in Star Trek.

We've seen Asian, Hispanic and black actors playing Vulcans. .

 

[STEPhon IT]

I was taken aback by a black Vulcan as well. Not so much on racial grounds as on continuity grounds.,.we had never seen a black Vulcan before. But then I remembered...isn't Amanda's Vulcan midwife in Star Trek V black? So now I'm over it.

I wasn't sure if the beautiful woman who was going to be Spock's Vulcanian mate in Amok Time was a person of color? I wasn't taken aback at all of a brown skinned Vulcan, my thoughts were, "It's about f^cking time." And with Russ' brilliance he portrayed a great Vulcan who wasn't a jerk, or arrogant and had a disdain for humans like that crappy DS9 episode where the crew had to play baseball.

 

[plynch]

Well, if it works like on Earth, the dark skin is for those closer to the equator where the sun is more direct, to reduce toxic levels of vitamin D production in the skin. Or whatever vitamin Vulcans might produce. The curly hair is for those where it's hotter, to vent heat quicker from the head, as opposed to straight hair that insulates, for folks evolved in high latitudes. So if Spock's peeps (straight locks) seem from a hot region, there must be some Vulcans from even hotter parts.

 

[topcat]

I thought all of Vulcan was arid desert?

voyager isn't technically tangent with TNG. I cant recall the name of the book, but it was a 3 or 4 piece book. One section was about the last few minutes of the Enterprise D and it fight in Generations, and destruction.
Another part was about the disappearance of voyager happening the same week.