7. The "Alternative Earth" - The Original Series
Ah. A true example of lazy makeup. Don't use any. Let's trawl back through The Original Series - Miri, The Return of the Archons, Patterns of Force, A Piece of the Action, All Our Yesterdays, the list goes on. Save the budget, shoot it on existing sets at Paramount Pictures and avoid spending a penny on even one alien facial. It's a winner all round and Fred B Phillips could knock off home early after sticking Nimoy's ears on; bonus. This is probably Star Trek at it's laziest and perhaps most budget constrained especially in the third season where every alien race seems to be oddly Earth-centric as the money trickled away. The Bottle Show to No Alien Makeup ratio must be nearing 1:1 at some point. The Alternative Earth scenario was conspicuously dumped by the time of The Next Generation but there's still the occasional offender in season one - Justice's Edo and the Ligons in Code of Honor jump straight to mind. Whenever an alien race in later years appeared with no makeup I came to the conclusion they were saving the cash for a big episode coming up but perhaps it's a case of no makeup over bad makeup here.
Reminds us of: An Average Day anywhere