Prosthetics and Borg bits

I have to tell you, Ethan Philips, who plays Nelix, who has nothing except his lips exposed on his face when he�s in make-up, and never complains. I think he�s a saint. I don�t know how he�s does it. The Borg make-up is very tough. It�s a whole rubber head and neck and the first part of your chest. Your ears are covered, there�s a laser over one eye, there�s rubber glued to your head in different places where tubes come in and out. It took five hours the first day we did the make-up. They got it down to two and a half or three, eventually.

But it�s tough. After working an eighteen hour day, you have to sit in the chair and for another hour and a half to get out of the make-up, when everyone else is going home. That�s when it really becomes tough.

The assimilation tubules that come out of the hat were all post production, that wasn�t an actual thing at all. That was done by computer.

It�s a huge relief to only have a little bit of the rubber on. I was always for as few prosthetics as I could get, once I was in the Borg make-up. It was an interesting experience [but] I don�t necessarily need to do it again for another job.