



“At first, we made Terry up to look like the no-spot Trill character from TNG, with the forehead appliance. Rick Berman saw it and immediately wanted it changed. He wanted Terry’s extreme good looks to be emphasized, not impinged upon by the makeup. That’s why he wanted a new design. Rick kept modifying the original TNG design to the point where there was nothing left for them to modify. Finally, Rick remembered the very intriguing TNG episode ‘The Perfect Mate’, with Famke Janssen as Kamala, a mesomorph who had spots running down the sides of her face. Famke was also one of the very early considerations for the Jadzia Dax role. Rick suggested, “Why don’t we try to do something very different with Terry and give her the spots we had on Famke?” It was up to me to figure out a way to do the spots so that they’d show but not get in the way of Terry’s looks.”
— Michael WestmoreSource: Star Trek Aliens & Artifacts [Michael Westmore et al.] 2000
I saw this picture and it looked like a hybrid of David Bowie and a Trill. It reminded me of your blog. So I thought I would share~

(Lemon, I think you just give me a new life goal)
Jadzia will go on existing when the symbiont is passed on to a new host. We’re part of something bigger than any one of us.
I’ve already established this in a comment on a post before, but I have more DS9 followers now, plus I feel like this deserves its own post.
Trill sexuality is kind of a hot point of discussion among fans of DS9. With Jadzia being the only clearly queer major character in a Star Trek series, the…