tried to Google the answer to this but I cannot find the answer. I imagine
there is a star trek writers bible that would cover it
question: why does Q have the dark appearance and black/bluish shade in his lips ?
it seems to vary over the various star trek franchises
Im wondering if its because Q does not have a circulatory system, or has blood that is colored blue or black, or simply he is suffering from Hypoxemia ? is Q a vampire? is he the undead? I knew someone with hypoxemia and he looked like Q
In his first appearance? In the robes, with the black hat? If IRC, he defines his outfit, as a judge from post WWIII era Earth governments. I assumed the make-up was part of the style for judges at the time. At other times, in other outfits, he seems to have normal coloration – you know, he looks like the actor John DeLancie.
Funny how, at the very last episode, after Picard does … well, whatever he was supposed to do, Q starts taking off the outfit, pulling off the gloves and throwing them down as if to say, “Finally, I’m done with playing dress up to make a point” or maybe Jon DeLancie is finally relieved, I can’t tell which.
Just helping out the O.P., google may have failed, and wikipedia demands notability, but a wikia dedicated to a TV show often has tons of trivia ready for someone with obscure questions. From that article:
*emphasis mine
So yeah, Q isn’t sick, that’s how they dress post WWIII. Gene Rodenburry said so, and you can’t deny it.
It was the eighties. Everything was a little bit gay, and a bit of make-up on John de Lancie isn’t even the gayest thing ST:TNG did in its first few seasons.
I’ll bet your one of those hecklers who likes to explain to the kids how the illusion is achieved while the Magician is still performing on the stage, right?
Or they simply didn’t make him up properly, ran out of what they needed for his skin type, bad lighting on the set, any or all of the above. Hey, it was early in the run, no one knew this was going to reboot the franchise, this could have tanked after 5 episodes. The budget probably wasn’t small, but it might have been stretched thin, here and there. There are pretty obvious makeup changes, as the series progressed. When Will grew the beard, that wasn’t all that changed, everyone else seemed a litlle bit … warmer. THere were more closeups too.
BBC America is re-running them, and I only barely pay attention, because I’ve seen them so many times, they’re boring. And dated. But I hadn’t noticed that. I will have to look for that. The endless evolution of Deanna is also a worthwhile study. It would be interesting to see the point where director goes, “Okay, we get it. You’re exotic and foreign and alien and all that. Now, thin the accent enough so that you’re not mumbling” It must have happened a bit before the roles given to her were fleshed out a bit more, and more interesting.
