

Now, Fred Phillips is an exceptionally fine makeup artist and recognized as a top pro in the business. Whitfield and Gene Roddenberry recalled in The Making of Star Trek (1968) how Phillips grew increasingly frustrated as three consecutive makeup screen tests, in which Roddenberry’s future wife Majel Barrett had been painted green, came back negative. The “green girl” was the creation of Fred Phillips who also made Spock’s Vulcan look for the original Star Trek television series.

A slave girl, or rather the illusion of one, was played by Susan Oliver in the ill-fated pilot episode “The Cage.”

The Orions were among the first alien species introduced in Star Trek.
