too many aliens?

[The Mirrorball Man]

I've thought that they could have done more simply by hiring actors/actresses who were not of standard body size. Painfully thin, or unusually tall, or huge bulky people, hire children to depict alien adults.

Or cats. Cats in cute little space alien cat costumes.

 

[T'Girl]

Assignment: Earth. And I've had suspicions about Porthos for some time now.

 

[ZapBrannigan]

I sometimes got annoyed by the slightly-modified-alien-of-the-week formula that crept into VOYAGER. But I still liked the show.

One piece of trivia I picked up from a behind the scenes feature somewhere: during the period when they had two TV series in production at the same time, the STAR TREK make-up department was buying liquid latex for facial appliances by the 55-gallon drum. That's a lot of foreheads.

 

[Therin of Andor]

The worst showcase of aliens was in Star Trek TMP. Absolutely awful.

Totally disagree! Of course, many were over-the-head, non-articulated masks, so they were destined to remain in the background (like Morn in DS9), but I loved them, and their ambassadorial robes as well.