This has bothered me every time I've rewatched Voyager. It seems like B'Elanna's cranial ridges go from four to three and become less defined about halfway through the series. Please tell me I'm not just seeing things! What's the deal?
B'Elanna's Forehead
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I do not know the reason for this, but I've always hated the design they used, anyway. It should've always been much more subtle, almost as if she were only a quarter Klingon. Besides which the pattern of the ridges always bothered me. In STAR TREK: The Next Generation, Michael Westmore - the makeup artist/supervisor - kept screwing around with the wigs and some of the sculpt of Worf's head piece - particularly the nose ridges. No explainations. No apologies.
Truth be told, a lot of artists are that way: They simply can't leave a finished piece alone, as long as they have access to it. Piccasso, in fact, had to be banned from some of his own shows, for that very reason. While something you've created is still in your possession, or available, there's always one more thing you can do to make it "better." Always one more alteration you can make ... it's just perfectionism, really.
Truth be told, a lot of artists are that way: They simply can't leave a finished piece alone, as long as they have access to it. Piccasso, in fact, had to be banned from some of his own shows, for that very reason. While something you've created is still in your possession, or available, there's always one more thing you can do to make it "better." Always one more alteration you can make ... it's just perfectionism, really.
It's cuz she has to be pretty.
They should have replaced her with the clone of a Duras sister discovered in a capsule hidden in a tachyon chamber of blood.
Spock was half-human and looked Vulcan; why would Torres be any different?
As teacake noted - perhaps jokingly - B'Elanna "has to be pretty." The look of the Duras sisters, for example, wasn't going to work. It's too severe, too built up, if you like. As well, there has been absolutely no fidelity to the Klingon sculpts used in THE MOTION PICTURE, whatsoever. Ever since, the Klingon look has been wildly inconsistant. For example, compare the chancelor's daughter in TUC to Vixis in TFF, or Kruge's wife in TSFS. The appearance of true Klingon females can be - and has been - much more subtle, at times - as it should've been. It's just more feminine, if you like. By Human standards maybe, but ... again, B'Elanna had to be pretty.
The Duras sisters are HOT.
Too hot for VOY.
Imagine what they would have done to Harry.
Too hot for VOY.
Imagine what they would have done to Harry.
Made him a man? And man enough to be promoted?
I've noticed it too. My personal canon chalks it up to the episode Faces, where she was split into two people: one human, and one Klingon, and after that reintegration of the Klingon DNA, she may have gone through some ridge changing. Not all that different from Enterprise's Affliction/Divergence.
http://www.themakeupgallery.info/fantasy/alien/st/kling/belanna.htm
You can see subtle differences in the ridges (they become less pronounced in later seasons). They also played with her hair coloring and styling, and lightened her makeup color, and probably played around with lighting, too.
...and lower and lower until by the the 10th season she would look like Cousin Itt...
Voyager, season 8.
I remember reading in a book once, I think it was the Star Trek Voyager A Vision of the Future, that after Roxanne Dawson was cast, they tested her in full Klingon makeup and Berman didn't like it. He felt she was too attractive to be hidden under all the makeup, so Westmore came up with the smaller ridges.
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