Star Trek makeups: various Romulans

The Star Trek universe: the Romulans

The Romulans are closely related to Vulcans but are devious and untrustworthy. Both have been around the Star Trek universe since the original series.

Their makeup has changed over the years but less so than the design for Klingons: the most immediately noticeable change (besides the forehead prosthetic) is their wholescale adoption of a particularly unflattering hairstyle.

Michael Westmore was makeup designer and supervisor.

The Romulans

Senator Tal’aura: In Star Trek: Nemesis the murderous Senator Tal’aura (Shannon Cochran) was a member of the Romulan Senate who secretly allied herself with Shinzon of Remus. She used a thalaron radiation projector to assassinate the entire Senate thereby setting the movie’s events in motion. Shannon Cochran had played a number of other guest roles in various Star Trek series including the Klingon Lady Sirella. Nemesis also featured Dina Meyer as the Romulan Comander Donatra.

Karina: In the Deep Space Nine episode ‘Visionary’ Karina (Annette Helde) was a diplomat for the Romulan Star Empire who visited Deep Space Nine to be briefed by Starfleet intelligence on the Dominion: she was unimpressed.

‘Romulan’ officer: In the Next Generation episode ‘Timescape’ Picard, Geordi, Troi and Data returned from a Federation conference to find the Enterprise and an attacking Romulan Warbird frozen in time. But things were not quite as they seemed: aliens from a different time-continuum had assumed Romulan bodies, including a female (Patricia Tallman), in order to survive in this continuum. Patricia Tallman was part of the Star Trek core stunt group for some eight years: doubling lead actresses and several guest actresses; playing stunt acting parts as various aliens; and coordinating fight scenes.