Oh, I admit, in the sixties makeup was not an advanced science, and we've come a long way...but, considering later developments story-wise, it created great epic subtext. The Orion conglomerate, vicious, predatory tribes of space pirates, where the men are honored in battle and the women are sold to the highest bidder, versus the Klingons, aggressive, structured clans of warriors, where women and men fight and die. Think about the conflicts that would create, when the cultures collided--in battle, on waystations, fighting for one colony world after the next.
And these slaves: tribally-minded, owing no loyalty to their own race or any other, skillful dancers, seductive poisoners, as lethal as they were lovely...some barely had enough education to speak, were very nearly feral. Others, at least in some stories, rose quite far in assassination and stealth ranks.
But it all started here, with one actress liberally daubed with green body-paint, wearing gold-painted bangles and a polyester snakeskin dress.
(Note from the Editrix on repost: This is Susan Oliver, who played Vina.)
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