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Star Trek: First Contact's Data Prosthetics Created An Absolute Nightmare
By WITNEY SEIBOLD
Partway through Jonathan Frakes' 1996 sci-fi film, "Star Trek: First Contact," the android Data (Brent Spiner) is kidnapped by the Borg.
Spiner's arm had to be wrapped in android mechanisms for a scene, requiring special fixatives and adhesives to keep the android wiring in place.
James MacKinnon, one of the prosthetics makeup designers on "First Contact," told The Hollywood Reporter about how somehow managed to glue his arm to his chest.
In the process of gluing Spiners (Data) prosthetic, MacKinnon made a sticky mistake that left him incapacitated for a few hours. Yes, he glued himself — to himself.
“We're gluing wires from one side to the other and I'm squeezing the bottle of super glue and it's not coming out. Suddenly the whole bottle explodes on my arm,” MacKinnon said.
“My arm is attached to my chest. It's kind of smoking, because it makes super glue go faster. Now my arm's burning,” the artist recounted.
MacKinnon survived unscathed, but it was scary. “I finished my makeup with one hand and it takes me two hours to get out of the super glue," he said.