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Choose from one of our four "Caretaker" behind the scenes featurettes:

	The Kazon Look • The First Captain Kathryn Janeway: Genevieve Bujold • Janeway's Hair • Miscellanous Images
	The make-up was designed by Michael Westmore, the show's make-up supervisor. "From the start, the producers wanted the character of the Kazon race to be such that it would fill the role of the Klingons on previous Star Trek shows, but they must clearly not be Klingons. The new villains would appear in the very first episode, the two-part story "Caretaker". The Kazon were written as cruel and barbaric, without the sense of honour that Klingons are known for. To illustrate these traits, make-up took a forehead based on an almost devilish structure, and the "comb" that runs down the forehead was modelled on the look of the vulture's neck. In later episodes, the make-up department took the "vulture neck" from the "comb" and built an appliance for the Kazon neck. In addition, they created a new nose tip which lengthened the actors' noses and added spikes coming out from below the nostrils. To distinguish the Kazon even further from the Klingons, the skin colour was made a burnt orange instead of dark brown." Joseé Normand, the show's hair designer, created the Kazon hair using some unusual ingredients including sponges and dried pig's ears (the kind sold in pet shops for animals to chew on). She says: "I wanted the hair to look like something that came from another planet, something really big and menacing, and that's what I came up with. I used pigs' ears and sponges. Some people liked it, some people hated it, but it's different!" Alan Sims, the show's properties master: Kazon weapons were crude, yet futuristic, weapons that had to convey the barbarism of the Kazon. These rifles and pistols looked antiquated even though they're 24th century. I used copper tubing and bent copper joints that ran to a barrel-head that was a different shape than the phaser rifle. The copper tubing became the body of the unit itself and was attached to a leather strap over a wood-looking grip that had a completely different presentation. It actually looked like a plumbing nightmare, but the prop worked because it helped define the Kazon."
	The feeling was that the best direction for us to go in terms of trying new things to be socially reasonable to represent something Star Trek has always been, which was to go for a female captain. The studio wasn't totally convinced that, and we agreed that we would also look at male actors and be sure that we kept an open mind. When the casting process was over the selection that was made was one wonderful French Canadian actress named Genevieve Bujold. Who got the job.   She's a very very good actor and I am sure that if we had been doing a motion picture she would have been phenomenal but there was enough going on in that first day or two that we realized that for everybody's sake that it was best to go in another direction.   When we went back to the drawing board, and the first runner up had always been Kate Mulgrew. She was always someone I had been very fond of and so had the studio, and Mike and Jeri. And luckily Kate was still available and we struck a deal within a week or so and we were back in production." From Voyager Season 1 DVD (Bonus DVD Easter Egg)
	Michael Piller: We had shot several days with Kate with her hair down. And that was how the "Janeway bun" came into being. And we had to go back and shoot major footage. I can honestly say that this is the only Star Trek pilot, in which the hair dressing cost more than the special effects.

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