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Posted: 00:53:05 on November 15 2002
By: Steve Krutzler
Dept: Enterprise | stenterprise.com

Makeup artist Michael Westmore talked in the new issue of the British magazine Star Trek Monthly about designing the slightly new Vulcan look for 'T'Pol' and the new Denobulan makeup for 'Doctor Phlox'.

"With T’pol, we were trying not to make her into a really start Vulcan,” he revealed to Joe Nazzaro for the magazine (excerpts via Sci-Fi Pulse). ”Her eyebrows don’t arch straight up in a line like others have in the past, and she isn’t the same mustard-yellow colour we’ve used before. There’s a little more flesh tone in her face, so she’s more like the Vulcan’s in ‘First Contact’, who weren’t that heavy-duty either.”

Westmore says he and a team of artists had to resist some of their more flamboyant tendencies when designing John Billingsley's alien doctor.

"We really didn’t know what we wanted for Phlox, so I hired five other artists, all sketching away for two weeks, and I ended up filling a note-book with more than 80 sketches," the artist recalls. "It seems that everyone wanted to get more flamboyant and larger than life, and I knew that wasn’t what Rick [Berman] and Brannon [Braga] wanted, but would feed me into idea’s that I could show them and know what they rally wanted."

As for future ambitions, Westmore has his eyes on reinventing another TOS species for ENTERPRISE.

"My goal is to make a Tellarite. I’ve already sent Brannon a note and said I want to do them. The eyes probably wouldn’t be as deep sunk. I’d probably modify the pig like nose a little bit, and the hair would be better-we’d probably have a thousand dollar lace beard on him instead of that bushy thing they wore!”

In the same issue, technical consultant and scenic art supervisor Mike Okuda gives some insight into his job on the show.

"I have two main areas of responsibility,” explains Okuda, who joined ‘Star Trek’ as a scenic artist on ST:TNG in 1986. “The most important one is the overall responsibility for the look of the graphics on the shows; the control panels, alien written languages, computer read-outs, prop detailing, logos… that sort of thing.”

Okuda and his team are involved in designing certain interior elements of alien sets, as he explains: "We then work from what the basic set designs are, and if there’s a control panel, how does it fit into the set, and what does the control panel itself look like. We also have to think about how much we’re going to see of it, what we’ve already established about the culture, and what its relative importance is within the script."

Read more excerpts from the interviews now at Sci-Fi Pulse: Okuda | Westmore

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