updated: 05/04/2006
Ambassador Kalika (Robin Curtis) was a leader of the League of Non-Aligned Worlds and lead their demands to hold a war-crimes trial for Jha’dur on Babylon 5.
Unfortunately, Kalika was culled along with characters from many other minor races. I suspect budgetary restraints played at least as big a part as a tightening focus on the story arc. Not introducing new aliens I understand but whatever happened to all those other ambassadors? Nevertheless, J Michael Straczynski plausibly explained this as intentional:
We’d like to get away from the alien-of-the-week story. . . and concentrate on the aliens we already have. If you just keep on throwing new aliens into the mix, soon it loses all impact. We decided to try a whole bunch of aliens over season one, and pick the ones that worked, which we would then work to refine and integrate more fully into the storyline.
The makeup effects were created by John Vulich and Optic Nerve Studios. Mike Measimer was shop supervisor and also the on-set makeup artist who applied this makeup.