Star Trek: Who Was Morn?

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The Star Trek franchise is home to an immense number of characters. Everyone from main protagonist captains with troubled pasts, to excitable ship chefs, together make up a huge roster of names, personalities, and appearances. While some were designed to be background characters, breathing life into the often ghostly ship corridors and promenades, they have often been noticed and remembered fondly by fans.

One example in the Deep Space 9series is the bar-frequenting Morn — but there is a lot more to this character than might first meet the eye. Morn, a Lurian, was a frequent background character in Deep Space 9, first appearing in the very first episode “Emissary.” He is found fairly consistently at the questionably-designed Quark’s bar, and his character became something of a running joke.

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Morn's actor, a young man named Mark Allan Shepherd, wore a prosthetic mask designed by Michael Westmore. This mask was designed to allow the actor to speak and move his mouth, but in every take where Shepherd spoke, it looked weird. Moving it in a way that looked realistic was beyond the mask's capabilities, and due to how large the mouth was, whenever he spoke it looked more like a gigantic muppet style puppet. Because of this, the character was used a lot in Quark bar scenes, but never spoke. The running gag was that while audiences never saw Morn talk, he was actually a massive chatterbox — but each and every time he was shown on screen, it was just after he had finished talking. Other characters referred to him every now and then, mentioning how they were just stuck talking to Morn who would not shut up.

While he became a great addition to the character of Quark's Bar, Morn's appearance was