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Yeoman Rand's Tower of Hair

This has been a question for decades. Does Captain Kirk wear a toupee, or just William Shatner? Was Uhura's hair intended to be real? I never gave it much thought until Strange New Worlds' version came along with very close-cropped hair.

Could you please share a link to what you're looking at? I'm searching like hell and nothing comes up for Kirk in Strange New Worlds. They don't even have a trailer yet.
 
I'll go with this. My explanation for VOY hairstyles that looked like they took a Victorian lady's maid to produce every morning: hair replicators--you enter the style and stick in your head. This would be a precursor technology.
Whitney herself said in some interview she imagined there was some machine you could just go to for an instant beehive.

My head canon is that she was in a The B-52's cover band. Cover bands of 20th century acts in the 23rd century are a thing now. Whether my head canon also include Kirk taking on the role of Fred Schneider and yelling "Rock Lobsta!" over and over is my business.
 
I challenge you to point out a Starfleet officer, in any show, with a nose ring or facial tattoo.

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Not including Chakotay...

I was responding to the aesthetics of background actors I saw when I sampled Discovery, that I didn't like. I can't name them by name. And I was also thinking of Chakotay a little bit. And I think I saw a nose ring when I sampled Lower Decks, not sure. But so far, the stills I've seen from Strange New Worlds look classy and understated, and I like that. :)
 
I was responding to the aesthetics of background actors I saw when I sampled Discovery, that I didn't like. I can't name them by name. And I was also thinking of Chakotay a little bit. But so far, the stills I've seen from Strange New Worlds look classy and understated, and I like that. :)
They must have been pretty far in the back, because I can't recall any.
 
I was responding to the aesthetics of background actors I saw when I sampled Discovery, that I didn't like. I can't name them by name. And I was also thinking of Chakotay a little bit. And I think I saw a nose ring when I sampled Lower Decks, not sure. But so far, the stills I've seen from Strange New Worlds look classy and understated, and I like that. :)
do their teeth shine and their pelts glisten for you?
 
Star Trek is not a gift horse. :) We pay money for it. That means the customer is entitled to look it over and have opinions. If they do stuff I do or don't like, well, it's my money and I can make my own judgements. :bolian:
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recalibrating
 
People forget that wigs were still a thing in the 60s so someone wearing what was obviously a wig wouldn't have even been noticed.

Indeed, wigs and partial wigs or "wiglets." I was just talking about this to my mom, who was in hairdressing school around the same time. She said it was just understood that parts of really big hairstyles were added pieces. She couldn't address Star Trek in particular, but thought it might be a reasonable extrapolation, or even expectation, that futuristic hairdos would involve even more elaborate artificial additions. Nobody would think it was really the person's hair, but they wouldn't care, either.
 
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