Star Trek: Picard's James MacKinnon Reflects on His Emmy-Winning Star Trek Legacy

Working on Star Trek: Picard may have been a bit like coming home for makeup department head James MacKinnon. Though the series began focused solely on Patrick Stewart's Jean-Luc Picard, Star Trek: Picard Season 3 brought back the entire Star Trek: The Next Generation crew. Though uncredited, MacKinnon started his career as a makeup assistant working under Star Trek legend Michael Westmore on Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

But yeah, it's a dream as an artist to be on a franchise that has shaped my life and taken me through a journey that I couldn't be more thankful to make these friends and that I can consider these actors friends because I've known them for so long. I have to wonder, you mentioned that the Next Gen crew, you've become friends, you've worked with them a long time, and that crew has something of a reputation for being pranksters, really fun, really goofy. Do any of them stand out in your mind for being the most fun when they're sitting in the makeup chair?

Was that always clearly the one you were going to submit? Were there any other episodes that you considered as a close second or was"The Last Generation" always obviously the one? It's not easier now. I think it's actually harder. You had more availability with 35-millimeter fuzzy prints to get away with it back then because it's grainy. Now it's super crisp, so you do have to sweat it out.

Well, one was again having my mentor be my boss, Mike Westmore. Just learning from him and watching his department-head techniques, to take those, for me, to the next level too. And Mike is still today a good friend and we talk all the time.

I think that our Borg Queen from Season Two was much more like the Jeri thing. Those pieces on her, she he had a lot of freckles, so we incorporated her freckles into that makeup. Our Borg Queen was gross and ugly, and this one was beautiful. the skull sculpture is very similar to our Borg Queen in Episode 10. There's a combination of those two together as well. Those makeups came together, even though they're separate.

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