Comments on: Profile and Exclusive Interview: Barney Burman – Prosthetic Makeup Designer for ‘Star Trek’

By: DonDonP1

DonDonP1 — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 20:46:55 +0000

With all respect to bright one, “Star Trek” is owned by CBS while “Star Wars” is owned by Lucasfilm. Paramount Pictures produced the “Star Trek” motion pictures before and after the “Viacom Split” while 20th Century Fox distributed the “Star Wars” movies (with the exception of “The Clone Wars” movie, distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, which co-owns the CW network with CBS).

By: trekteen

trekteen — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 21:48:15 +0000

i agree w/ MORN! Voyager ROX!!!!!!!!!!!

By: stan lee

stan lee — Sat, 16 May 2009 16:11:16 +0000

I am in the art direction biz not to spoil or rain on Barney’s parade but I heard he was demoted,and was asked to stay off set, his assistant Joel Harlow was asked to take over the main characters namely the main cast. I also heard that Barney’s crew is pissed since none of them got credit for there hard work.

for Shame Barney!

By: janaka jaminda bandara

janaka jaminda bandara — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 06:01:11 +0000

please help me i am make up artist in sri lanka

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 07:37:20 +0000

There’s an episode of the Original Series that has a Starfleet ship with only Vulcans. (Not seen, but mentioned)
It blew up and Spock felt “a great disturbance in the force”.

By: bright one

bright one — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 19:53:19 +0000

well..I was always surprised that very few aliens were on starships.

One thing they did on deepspace 9 was claim one federation starship had all vulcans.
That makes it more realistic by claiming hundreds of vulcans serve instead on hust 3 of them.

If they ever make another series…they should make some federation starships filled with one type of alien. Why not? They have starships with all human crews.

Also…I would like to see a star trek versus star wars movie someday.

By: Closettrekker

Closettrekker — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:17:10 +0000

#33—”Does anyone prefer the puppet Yoda over the digitally created one ?”

Yes!

By: tlh1138

tlh1138 — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 18:05:51 +0000

#68 – “Lost in Space” was reportedly CBS’ attempt to copy TREK on the cheap.

Actually, that’s not true. In the book “Making of Star Trek”, Gene Roddenberry notes that when he was shopping around “Star Trek” to the studios, CBS turned him down because they already had “Lost in Space”. As for LIS going camp, that’s because CBS saw the success of the Adam West “Batman” airing at the same time, and wanted to capitalize on it. It’s a shame, really, because the first six episodes of LIS were serious drama, and actually pretty good.

By: Tami (Dixon) Cooke

Tami (Dixon) Cooke — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 23:52:19 +0000

It’s amazing to see your hard work, Barney. Just think, I used to go to your house and see all your dad’s stuff laying around and didn’t think much of it way back then. Now that we are older I see the details and hard work that goes into it all.
Love ya,

By: Jason P Hunt - co-creator of COMET TALES

Jason P Hunt - co-creator of COMET TALES — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 20:43:07 +0000

Brett:

My focus was on American fare, since I’m not really familar with the non-US material outside of Godzilla.

I forgot about “The Time Tunnel” and the others. “Lost in Space” was reportedly CBS’ attempt to copy TREK on the cheap. But the pilot episode has always stuck in my head as being what the seies should have stuck with.

I guess the main thought was that science fiction wasn’t as prominent as it seems to be nowadays. The fan followings were cultish? I was born in 1970, so I’m mainly going from memory of reports and articles I’ve read about SF in that time period. And I think 2001 was the first high-impact SF film that made non-fans notice the genre.

I have a theory that many “science fiction” pieces that are around nowadays have been cross-pollinated with other genres to make them more palatable to the general public. If you have a completely SF story – as TMP really was – you’ll lose a lot of non-fans.

My cent and a half.