Who Mourns For Adonais Nipples?
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While re-watching Who Mourns For Adonais recently it occurred to me that Apollo has no nipples. I haven't seen this in HD so I'm not 100% certain, can anyone else verify that this is the case or am I going blind from masturbating too much?
Ever since I first watched Trek on a tiny B&W set in the 70s, I noticed the lack of male nipples. When Kirk is shirtless, it's the same phenomenon. I assumed they covered them with makeup.
Doug
Sorry, I can't answer your final question!
Sulu has none in his Naked Time.
Craaaazy!...never noticed it before.
Must have been done with makeup. Did anyone notice whether Spock had any in Patterns of Force? It would probably have been easier to cover them up than to tint them green.
Kirk has a nipple in Orac's avatar there.
True; good point. However, look at Kirk in the gym scene in Charlie X for an example of what I remember. What I mean is, you can see the nipples, but they always seemed unnaturally pale. Adonais is more extreme.
Bored: You're right about Sulu, and I don't think Spock's were very visible in Patterns.
Doug
PS Is it odd that a hetero guy like me notices these things?
Well, Sulu practically shoves his bare chest right in your face when he's in Sickbay.
It's kinda like Jeannie's bellybutton, isn't it?
The first step in doing make-up is applying a foundation to even out the skin tones for the camera. So pretty much every square inch of visible skin is going to made up--face, nape of the neck, and hands. (This will, of course, require a lot of make-up if the entire upper body ends up having to be made up for the cameras--when an actor goes shirtless.)
Having applied make-up to the entire upper body and having evened out the skin tone, the make-up artist then needs to decide if he's going to go back over the nipples with something akin to lipstick to make them standout again. It would be very easy to go overboard and make the nipples overly cartoonish and freakish. Probably easier to not highlight them at all and let the only distinction between the nipples and the rest of the chest be the slightly different skin texture, instead of the pigmentation/coloration.
So the make-up artists don't actually "cover the nipples" and the nipples aren't "unnaturally pale;" rather, make-up artists actually cover everything, and the skin is all unnaturally even-toned. (The make-up artists simply don't bother doubling back to re-emphasize the nipples with additional make-up.)
Having applied make-up to the entire upper body and having evened out the skin tone, the make-up artist then needs to decide if he's going to go back over the nipples with something akin to lipstick to make them standout again. It would be very easy to go overboard and make the nipples overly cartoonish and freakish. Probably easier to not highlight them at all and let the only distinction between the nipples and the rest of the chest be the slightly different skin texture, instead of the pigmentation/coloration.
So the make-up artists don't actually "cover the nipples" and the nipples aren't "unnaturally pale;" rather, make-up artists actually cover everything, and the skin is all unnaturally even-toned. (The make-up artists simply don't bother doubling back to re-emphasize the nipples with additional make-up.)
Well, that solves the mystery. Thanks. 
Am I the only one who read this thread's title and expected it to be about Leslie Parrish?
Definitely count me as disappointed.
No. You weren't!
Why didn't they shave Nimoy? Was it to make him look more "alien," or perhaps Nimoy didn't agree to it (other than the neck and up)?
I guess that that would depend on how hairy it is. I've seen some g uys who have more hair on their chest than a mugato.
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