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Actually, this incredibly interesting article was in ST:TM at one point.
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I was trying to go to bed (It's 23:15 here), just gonna switch off the computer, and I see this thread. Shame on you people. Now I'm all awake and all giggle. Gonna try 'n put on those 'burns tomorrow, see what kinda reaction I get at work. Nighty, nighty.
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I thought that both Bashir and O'Brian had a very innate 60's look. Not just the hair and such, they just look like they should be on TOS. One thing though. I didn't think that Sisko fit in at all. I remember watching the scene where he gets Kirk's autoograph and thinking- that guy doesn't look like part of the crew. It kind of hurt the credibility of the scene for me. So I tried to figure out what it was that made Sisko just not fit. Was it because hes black. Nope- there were black officers during TOS. Shaven head? Even though no cew member that I can recall of in TOS had a shaven head, I didn't think that was the factor either. Then it occurred to me- the goatee. A goatee definitely does not fit in a TOS setting. No starfleet personell were ever seen possessing facial hair (beards anyway) during those days. While it could be argued that just because you don't see it doesn't mean it doesn't exist, I believe that the very militaryesque grooming standards of TOS tend to indicate that beards were not allowed. And even if they were allowed, we are talking aesthetics here- it didn't look right.
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That reminds me...didn't one of the Equinox crew have a goatee?
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Guys, it's not just the TOS characters who have those sideburns. If you look at pics of characters from other series (flip through your Trek reference books), the majority of the male characters had those sideburns (fewer in TNG and more in DS9 and VGR). None of the females do, but Troi did have them when she played a Romulan.
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James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
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They all do, except in cases where it just would look weird. Like the background people in STIV or something.
------------------ Elim Garak: "Oh, it's just Garak. Plain, simple Garak. Now, good day to you, Doctor. I'm so glad to have made such an... interesting new friend today." (DS9: "Past Prologue")
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Ziyal: Troi had a Romulan haircut in "Face of the Enemy". The sideburns were pointed, in a way, but they weren't anything like Academy sideburns.
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