QUARK, RETURNED!

Armin Shimerman turned down repeated offers to slip back into Quark’s makeup and costume for convention appearances. A few years ago, however, he made an exception in order to support longtime friend and colleague, Karen Westerfield, who spent seven years on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine getting Shimerman camera-ready. They reunited at an official convention in Britain, with Westerfield prepping Shimerman as a select few fans watched in awe. Shimerman then appeared on stage in costume, alongside Max Grodenchik as Rom and the late Aron Eisenberg as Nog, and posed for photos with fans. The experience triggered no déjà vu in Shimerman about his time on DS9, but he noted during a recent conversation, something did catch him totally off-guard…

INTERVIEW BY IAN SPELLING

"The makeup wasn’t that difficult when I did it in England,” Shimerman says. “Karen was there, and I knew I was in good hands. When you’re being made up, you really have no input. You are simply a piece of canvas the artist draws on. What I was surprised by, when Karen was finished — and because we’d meticulously gone and found pieces used on the show — was how much like Quark I looked. “That may seem overly simplistic, but it isn’t. I know I’ve aged. I look in the mirror and see how much older I’ve gotten, so I assumed the Quark makeup would not be the same, because of the changes in me. But, because so much of my face was covered with prosthetics, because Karen remembered meticulously…

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