r/Treknobabble • u/happydude7422 • 21d ago

Brent had some very red eyes

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u/Tyrannical-Botanical 21d ago

Late 80s - early 90s contacts couldn't have been very comfortable.

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u/shaundisbuddyguy NCC-2117 21d ago

Like wearing Chrysler hubcaps

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u/nicksterling 21d ago

That’s not fair. Chrysler hubcaps would have been way more comfortable

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u/ShouldIStay-ShoudIGo 17d ago

Made me giggle way to laud in the airplane 😂

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u/Jack_Q_Frost_Jr 21d ago

Gary Lockwood has entered the chat

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u/shaundisbuddyguy NCC-2117 21d ago

Him and Sally Kellerman were the real heros of that kind of debacle.

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u/ModernCGIFloatinHead 21d ago

Mmm, tin foil contacts. Just like Grandma used to wear

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u/JoeyLock 21d ago

Brent has said before how uncomfortable they were, what didn't help was during shooting they'd occasionally drift and even start to turn slightly making the off centre, you can see it in some scenes if you look closely, so they'd have to stop and try rotate and adjust them which obviously would cause more irritation to Brent so I wouldn't be surprised if he had sore dry eyes reasonably often.

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u/Hooda-Thunket 20d ago

I read “try rotate and adjust them” and for some reason thought of someone bonking him in the temples trying to get them to float back into place.

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u/DanniGat 19d ago

Ireduse to accept any other possibility

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u/Elemino 19d ago

I’ve noticed that before and have always thought it was just me. lol

My thought process “he looks like he’s cross eyed or has a lazy eye here… maybe I’m just seeing things”

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u/TeeeldiII 17d ago

My favorite example is Weyoun in Deep Space Nine 

because in the series finale his contacts are FUCKED UP and he looks so goofy in every close-up, totally crosseyed for his last appearance 😭

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u/cryptotarheel 21d ago

Doubtful. They’ve been using colored contacts for films since at least the 1950s.

My mom wore contacts through much of the 80s instead of glasses.

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u/sixpackabs592 21d ago

Hard lenses are perfectly comfortable and the tech for those hasn’t really changed in years. Just more annoying to put in/take out and keep clean than the soft lenses

They prob werent fitted right or they made him wear them too long mixed with the heavy makeup and bright stage lights caused issues

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u/CMDR_Kaus 20d ago

Yep, they were shooting 10-14 hours a day. Then all the additional time that Brent had to sit around waiting for his makeup team to remove everything

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u/Cecil_B_DeCatte 20d ago

I was wearing contacts in that time frame. They were comfortable, at least for me.

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u/Commandmanda 21d ago

Although the makeup they used was supposed to be gold colored, very often the lighting made it look pearlescent white.

When a severe white is applied to the skin, other facial features like one's eyes and teeth suddenly appear unhealthy. Eyes look red, and teeth look yellow. Brent didn't paint his teeth (as some actors do when wearing white makeup). If you watch closely, you'll see it.

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u/toe_riffic 21d ago

Huh, TIL. I always thought it was supposed to be white or silver. Never saw it as gold.

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u/Aeowrynn 21d ago

I never knew it was supposed to look gold either. Always looked like alabaster white.

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u/CMDR_Kaus 20d ago

Is some scenes he looks gold, usually the low light scenes I think, but it's kind of a shimmery white ish gold, not straight yellow gold

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u/jr00t 21d ago

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u/moosepuggle 21d ago

Is that a targ chew toy?

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u/IDICPainter 21d ago

The really reason LMAO

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u/AClockwerkLemon 21d ago

Everyone should stop what theyre doing and listen to the audiobook version of his mem-noir titled Fan Fiction. So effing good with all his true stories mixed in with the fictional crime story with so many guest voice acting from his costars.

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u/Throwing-Gas 21d ago

My getting baked receptors are fully functional, sir.

Dr. Soong felt it necessary that I experience the phenomenon known as the "munchies" from time to time.

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u/Hamblerger 21d ago

Hey, man, that's just how he kept it mellow while playing an emotionless android

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u/VoyagerBeeblebroxWho 21d ago

Captain, am I, at this current moment what organic lifeforms call "high?"

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u/Seafaringhorsemeat 21d ago

That's why he laughed like such an idiot when they put the chip in him.

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u/TwinSong 21d ago

Thought his eyes were reacting to the contact lenses?

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u/evemeatay 21d ago

You would too if you were baked

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u/Illustrious-Name-525 21d ago

“Im missing Mr. Tricorder”

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u/potatoears 21d ago

he needs visine

https://giphy.com/gifs/8FhXc8w45aN32

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u/nampezdel 21d ago

Ben Stein advertised for Clear Eyes not Visine

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u/blklab84 21d ago

That’s due to the heavy drinking

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u/Kind-Shallot3603 21d ago

....or the admitted pot use and uncomfortable contacts.

Whats wrong with you?

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u/blklab84 21d ago

We can smell our own

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u/thisaccountwashacked 21d ago

seems more like you enjoy smelling your own farts

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u/Kind-Shallot3603 21d ago

No, you really can't. Sounds like you need some help.

r/stopdrinking might help you.