Garak’s Shop/ TNG Throwback:
Top: Steven Miller, Father of Wyatt Miller, Deanna Troi’s fiance (TNG “Haven” 1x11)
Middle: Christy Henshaw, Geordi LaForge’s girlfriend (TNG “Transfigurations” 3x25)
Bottom: Kamala, a Kriosian empathic metamorph. (TNG “The Perfect Mate” 5x21)
(via cardassians-blog)
*tries to think of something intelligent to say that is not just a lot of capslocked vowels, fails* AAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAA AAIIIIIIIIIEEEE EEEEEEEEEEEE EEEEEEEE!!!
He does have that effect, doesn’t he? ;)
Deep Dish Nine Garak, Ponytail Living With Julian In Andor Edition
well, does it help to know that delenn chooses to alter her body herself? i can’t really say much else without spoiling (it’s that kind of series), but delenn has full autonomy over her body and the alteration is her decision
Well, that’s nice to know! Though I still mourn for her look pre-hair!
aaactually a lot of the more humanoid aliens *might be* hybridized. it’s never confirmed but at the very least cross-species genetic tampering comes up as a minor plot point—i can’t say more without spoiling tho
Since I saw a lot of this as a kid, I know some shenanigans eventually go down with Delenn and an awful head of human hair, though the circumstances aren’t really clear in my memory. I remember watching relevant episodes with my grandmother, and she has always had different tastes regarding what is interesting or good in media than I did, so she was really emphatic about the love story that apparently goes along with this crappy hair and I was just really uncomfortable, both with the love story and the hair. I think at the time I believed Delenn ‘looked better’ because I hadn’t yet developed a deep appreciation for women with no hair/who didn’t look aggressively feminine Barbie style (see current tragic and conflicting passionate burning love for the entirely bald and not sweet Doc Yewll). I remember clearly though, staring at my grandmother’s Delenn action figure and feeling some deep discomfort on her behalf, like her body had been violated.
But, again, to spin off on some nebulous personal junk, I don’t really remember all the context. I can’t remember clearly how Delenn felt about all this, nor do I have clear impressions of any other characters at all but Londo and G'Kar and maybe someone blue exploding at some point. Just like my childhood clear memories of Odo and Quark and not much more of DS9, haha. I remember the colors of Quark’s bar very strongly, I liked how warm they were, they made our basement (where we had a tv) feel nice.
I was old enough to properly understand these shows when they aired, but I was very private about enjoying media even then and I had this weird feeling that I wasn’t supposed to be really seeing these shows, I was only happening to catch things if my dad and grandmother watched them. So I never saw things regularly or in order. I think I also sensed early on that I liked these shows for different reasons than my dad and grandmother did and that these would be a problem if I expressed them, so I just decided not to torture myself. I had a lot of really complicated and tangled feelings about everything and did primarily what I thought would make me less likely to be commented upon, often to the point of just not pursuing things I liked.
A lot of this is still left over in me, 20+ years later, though I’ve been trying to get to the heart of it all and undo some of it.
/weird personal sci-fi dump
Oh, I considered all this (particularly the influence of addiction and Doctor Bashir!) and I could probably make a really nerdy post about it someday, but I was interested in the sort of mundane behind the scenes technical reasoning for things! Since the people making his first episode weren’t even planning to have Garak again, I was interested in how his face took on some interesting changes as he became ‘someone’. (Though I suspect the nostrils is just that Andy wanted to breathe if he was going to be Garak more often!)
Usually I am all about figuring out in-verse reasons for inconsistent out of universe shenanigans, though, I feel you on this. Long have we all discussed the fluctuating neck ridges and shedding and blue face stuff and wacky color changes and hormones~
It would be interesting to really go through and make some proper research-y post about this! (And Damar since they specifically mention him, though, let’s be real, who do I love dearly and is thus more likely to inspire this kind of nerdery? Garak.)
One of the things that always interests me about Garak’s makeup is that the earlier face (the top two images) gives a much more gaunt and aged appearance than the later look (the bottom two). The cover of A Stitch in Time always strikes me really hard as being derived from a screencap of Garak when he’s with Bashir at the orphanage just because of his gaunt facial construction.
I feel like I couldn’t pinpoint all the places where little things have changed (they gave him more nostril in the later looks, for sure, and the ridge around his eye casts a stronger shadow in the far corners in the older looks as the most obvious things besides his hair), but the two faces definitely give a different look to him. The shape of his head from the temples up even looks different in the top two. These aren’t direct comparison screenshots or anything, because this was just kind of a notion I wanted to make random observation on, but I thought they were interesting!
There’s mention in the DS9 companion book about the way they changed lighting Damar once he became sympathetic. It seems they may have evolved Garak’s look in construction and lighting once they realized how complex he was going to be, too!
old boss was just conducting a survey to see if I wanted to be temporary for the winter again this year
I said yes, but bleh
G'Kar and his helper lady are the new best part of this. She probably won’t stick around because I like her.
Other plot about the commander and his ex lady is dull as fuck, but Ambassodor and rad lady laughing over sending some poor sap to his doom is rad.
Also said poor sap was wearing glasses and fuck I am here for aliens wearing glasses can we do more of that please thanks
i called her back and got voicemail augh come on why would you do this to me
