Trek Untold

Hosted ByMatt Kaplowitz

"Trek Untold" is the Star Trek podcast that goes beyond the stars! This show features guests including character actors, stunt performers, directors, writers, VFX artists, and the behind-the-scenes people who make the Star Trek universe boldly go where no sci-fi franchise has gone before.

Trek Untold Episode 60: Karen Westerfield, Star Trek Makeup Artist

Karen Westerfield, Star Trek Makeup Artist

Karen started on “Star Trek: The Next Generation,” working on Klingon makeup, and followed it up in the sixth motion picture, continued by her work on DS9 as the main makeup person for Armin Shimerman, and then First Contact and Insurrection.

Karen shares with us the secrets behind Quark's makeup and prosthetics, and we talk about a few of the episode.s Karen won an Emmy for TNG Cost of Living, DS9 Captive Pursuit and Distant Voices, playing a prank on Marc Alaimo, and an embarrassing moment on the set of DS9 with Quark.

And the story behind Quark's appearance on “Regist & Kathie Lee” and doing Armin's makeup for the first time in decades at a Star Trek convention in England.

Plus, the roundabout path she went down to eventually end up in her field, what she learned from the Marvin Westmore Academy, and work on other films like “Robocop,” “Edward Scissorhands,” “Batman Returns” and a secret makeup technique she applied to Quark on DS9 that she first used on Danny Devito as The Penguin, and much more. Learn all about special effects makeup with Karen on the new Trek Untold!

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