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Was there a significant technological change between Deep Space 9 and Voyager?
Toy Borgsubhead : How merchandise comes in handy
body : This was from the episode, Dark Frontier, Star Trek Voyager, and this is the first time that humanity encounters Species 8472. And before they actually encounter the life form, they see that they have left a pile of dead Borg body parts on their ship. And the Borg, up until that time, were the most frightening of our adversaries. And to keep our budget down, and I knew it needed some insane thinking, so I figured I�d better do it myself. And I took Borg action figure toys and cut them up � and just stacked them up in a crazy way and re-painted them. And kudos to the sculptor who did the original toys, because the faces were so well done, I was able to get a close-up this big. So, in the show, I photographed this with a still photographer here at home against a piece of blue screen, but when we shot the scene on stage, the actors knew about how big the pile of Borg would be, so everybody knew where their eye lines were supposed to be, so they walked around on an empty stage and then, later on, this was composited into a scene. I think it�s pretty cool.
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