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Comic Book Cover Art, DC Comics, STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION. Pencil, Ink, Brush, Pen, Opaque gouache, China marker, and a cheap airbrush. lol

One of the all-time favorite Trek guest-stars, Suzie Plakson played the ill-fated K'Ehleyr, the half-Klingon, half-human mate of Lt. Worf. She bore him a son (Alexander), and partially raised him in secret before meeting her tragic death. Plakson, like Mark Lenard before her and other actors since, returned to the Trek universe to portray a variety of interesting characters. Another notable one was the Vulcan, Dr. Selar. She also played a member of the Q Continuum.

Oh yeah, Whoopi Goldberg's Guinan was fun to draw here, too. The difficulty in rendering her is her lack of eyebrows.
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I agree ogrebear. Would have loved to see where the storyline would go.
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Such a shame they decided to off K'Ehleyr and not have her has a recurring character!

Great fanfic here about her not dying: [link]
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*KaizokuShojo Jul 7, 2011   Traditional Artist
So~~~~ amazing... Each of them are exactly spot-on, and the details are perfect. They couldn't look more like the actual characters if they were black and white photographs. :)
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~echosong41 Aug 4, 2010  Student Traditional Artist
I loved that episode when they see each other again for the first time in the second season,
so passionate! And a little..ugly.
I thought for sure Worf was gonna sock her at any moment XD
Great job on this, and all your other works of Star Trek!
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*Jerome-K-Moore Aug 4, 2010  Professional Filmographer
Thank you!

Yes, Suzie Plakson was wonderful, providing the character with just the right amount of humor, sass, and ferocity. No doubt, she's the hottest Klingon since Mara, Kang's wife in the original series.
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~echosong41 Aug 5, 2010  Student Traditional Artist
Definitely :)
Ever notice how Klingons are all really ugly except for Worf and K'ehleyr? It's so funny!
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~Loleia Jan 28, 2008  Professional Digital Artist
I soooo love K'Ehleyr....
Suzie Plakson was one of the best guest stars in the show together with Majel Barrett and John de Lancie, but you're right, poor Worf really has bad luck when it comes to women doesn't he?! It would've been so cool to see him marry K'Ehleyr the way he married Dax though! Klingon weddings seem like heavy metal concerts to me lol!
And I can only imagine how hard it must've been to draw Guinan, what with the lack of eyebrows and all! You have to have the shadow and bump there but no actual hair... She looks good though, you did an amazing job! And Worf looks great as well, I was always a bit sad that Michael Dorn had to wear so much make up, he's such a gorgeous man! I loved him on that episode with his human brother in which he didn't have the ridges... "Homeward" I think it was called.
Anyway, amazing job as usual :D
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*Jerome-K-Moore Jan 28, 2008  Professional Filmographer
Muchas gracias, Lola! :)

Along with your choices, I gotta toss in Michelle Forbes (Ensign Ro Laren) as one of THE best guest stars on Trek Next Gen. Too bad she couldn't be a regular or semi-regular cast member.

Yeah, poor Worf. I never paid much attention to DS9, or the other Trek spin-off series, but I felt the Worf/Jadzia/Dax union was awkward and forced. Inferior writing there. And weird. With Jadzia Dax being symbiotic, Worf must've felt like he was being watched on their honeymoon! LOL! But then, maybe heavy metal Klingons are kinky like that.

Plus, every marital spat winds up being two against one! :D
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~Loleia Jan 28, 2008  Professional Digital Artist
De nada ;)

lool! Yeah I wasn't a huge fan of the Worf/Jadzia/Dax relationship either, the symbiont thing there was just... disturbing! Like in that episode in which they first introduced the symbionts on TNG with poor Dr Crusher! You'd think Worf would've learned his lesson!
But then again, after K'Ehleyr I've never really liked any of the relationships for Worf, not even the one with Troi (although I'll admit, it was kinda fun to watch the two of them never quite being together :giggle: !)

Ooh Michelle Forbes, good one! I loved her as Ro Laren and she made me cry a lot as the daughter of that scientist in one of the Majel Barret episodes, I can't remember the name but it was really sad! (looked it up, it was the episode "Half a Life" [link])

Oh and of course Whoopi Goldberg, goes without saying ;)
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*Jerome-K-Moore Jan 28, 2008  Professional Filmographer
And yet you mentioned her anyway. LOL!

Yeah, Trek always had a penchant for recycling guest stars, going all the way back to the classic series' reusing of actor Mark Lenard as a Romulan Commander, and then later as Spock's father, Sarek. Then again, with actor William Campbell guest-starring as Trelane in, "Squire of Gothos," and then once more as Klingon Captain Koloth in "The Trouble With Tribbles," a role he ironically recreated under new Klingon make-up for the Deep Space Nine episode, "Blood Oath."
But our girl Suzie here is among the select few actors to portray more then two different alien species throughout one series run of Trek.

I've always liked Michelle Forbes. That "Half a Life" episode was a real tear-jerker. Very well written.
Forbes is a joy to watch, and she turned in yet another memorably stellar guest appearance on the new Battlestar Galactica, as Admiral Helena Cain.
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