Star Trek makeups: Commander Toreth

TNG: Commander Toreth

In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode ‘Face of the Enemy’ Deanna Troi wakes up one morning to discover she’s a Romulan aboard a Romulan warship and sharing it uncomfortably with Commander Toreth (Carolyn Seymour).

It turns out to be one of Spock’s cunning plans: Deanna Troi’s been kidnapped and surgically altered to become ‘Major Rakal’, an officer of the Tal Shiar (the elite intelligence agency of the Romulan Star Empire), to take part in a secret mission – implausible but at least it gave Marina the chance to try out a few new expressions (and even to lose her rag).

Toreth was the commander of the warbird IRW Khazaraand was a capable and professional commander who had previously received the Sotarek Citation for winning a decisive victory over the Klingons. She hated the Tal Shiar who had been responsible for the murdere of her father.

It is likely that this is the role that Joanne Linville was offered when she was asked to come out of retirement to reprise her role as the Romulan commander in this episode.

The makeup

Michael Westmore was the makeup designer and supervisor on Star Trek: The Next Generation.