TOS Klingons had ridges!

[JonnyQuest037]

But extensive prosthetics were still much more the exception than the rule. And The Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits usually involved only one outlandish element - They didn't have to create an entire future world from scratch every week like TOS did. Most episodes took place in the present day. So I suspect that they were able allocate more budget to the makeup department when they needed to. And heck, sometimes even they cut corners - the classic Outer Limits episode "Demon With A Glass Hand" has guys in black turtlenecks with boot black around their eyes as the alien Kyben.

 

[Marsden]

What I think you are seeing is the natural tendency of that kind of make up to accumulate in the indentations.

I think Tige Andrews, the second Klingon shown, had a naturally darker complexion so they didn't apply the makeup, but then William Campbell really didn't look like a Klingon at all, so they went back to the dark makeup with Krell.

 

[johnnybear]

Apparently the make-up people forgot is what I've read about the discrepancy in the skin colours of Klingons in TOS!
JB

 

[Marsden]

Apparently the make-up people forgot is what I've read about the discrepancy in the skin colours of Klingons in TOS!
JB

I'm sure you're right, I just like to overthink things.

 

[JonnyQuest037]

I'm sure you're right, I just like to overthink things.

The Trek BBS is basically "Overthinking Things: The Website."

 

[johnnybear]

Klingons in TAS had perms and pink tabards! So there!
JB

 

[Shawnster]

Ruffles have ridges

 

[Nerys Myk]

What I think you are seeing is the natural tendency of that kind of make up to accumulate in the indentations.

I think Tige Andrews, the second Klingon shown, had a naturally darker complexion so they didn't apply the makeup, but then William Campbell really didn't look like a Klingon at all, so they went back to the dark makeup with Krell.

Ned Romero is of Native American ancestry.

 

[Marsden]

Ned Romero is of Native American ancestry.

Was that his natural skin tone or did they add make up?

 

[Nerys Myk]

Was that his natural skin tone or did they add make up?

Unsure. I've seem in him other roles where his skin tone was the same.

 

[Emperor Norton]

They were just frowny people.

 

[Marsden]

Unsure. I've seem in him other roles where his skin tone was the same.

I tried to compare with a google image search and it was close. Eyebrows were augmented, though.

So it's really possible then that no Klingons in season 2 had the dark makeup, but they sure covered the actors in Day of the Dove. I wonder why they took a year off?

Btw, thank you for mentioning that about Ned Romero, I didn't know. There's still more to learn about a 50 year old show I've been watching over 40 years.

 

[johnnybear]

Was that his natural skin tone or did they add make up?

They added the same tan to his skin like Colicos and Ansara and K L Smith! Surely Ned Romero also had Hispanic heritage with a name like Romero?
JB

 

[JonnyQuest037]

So it's really possible then that no Klingons in season 2 had the dark makeup, but they sure covered the actors in Day of the Dove. I wonder why they took a year off?

They didn't. The Klingon in "A Private Little War" has a pretty dark complexion. I suspect they just did whatever was most flattering to the actor. Tige Andrews and William Campbell both had pretty caucasian features, so maybe they just decided to scale back the dark makeup.

 

[Sir Rhosis]

They added the same tan to his skin like Colicos and Ansara and K L Smith! Surely Ned Romero also had Hispanic heritage with a name like Romero?
JB

Native American, Spanish and French. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ned_Romero

 

[johnnybear]

I hadn't realised that he had died! But I remember him mostly as either Krell the Klingon or the native American guy in Galactica 80 with the big talk on grain and the land!
JB

 

[iliescu]

Star Trek Enterprise has no ridges Klingon part of the crew, correct it if wrong.

 

[STEPhon IT]

I think the only reason most of the aliens in TOS looked human, is because they couldn't afford to put a whole bunch of actors in heavy makeup back then otherwise, they would have looked as little as humans as possible.

No. Because Star Trek wasn't about that, and the narratives had to be taken seriously. Also, actors were and still are skittish about having too much make-up on their faces, and also Star Trek was not a monster show so the make-up work needed to be practical. During those days it was hard to keep a devil looking science officer on screen, and judging what was done compared to what was seen on other SF shows--Star Trek made the right decision.

What's wrong with a simple method to produce an alien? Marina Sirtis had contact lenses to pass as an alien, and Colicos' portrayal of a Klingon was more fierce and more threatening than those Russian-ebonics, werewolf idiots yapping about honor where they had none. Why do we need werewolf looking monsters to convey a Klingon??? Especially every new iteration--including INTO DARKNESS--is looking worse.

 

[mos6507]

What's wrong with a simple method to produce an alien?

Nothing. But people equate 'simple' with 'cheap', hence the sequins and other gaudy and extraneous doo-dads in Star Trek: Discovery.

Take Gamora from Guaradians of the Galaxy. She's barely more sophisticated than the green paint of an Orion Slavegirl, and there's nothing at all wrong with that.

 

[WarpFactorZ]

Star Trek Enterprise has no ridges Klingon part of the crew, correct it if wrong.

It is wrong.