I found this image at http://www.vigyan.com/~blbates/star_trek/voyager/index.html . As far as I'm concerned, this is one of the most famous tattoos around - the facial tattoo of Chakotay, first officer of the Voyager. There was a great episode that explained the tattoo - it was season 2, episode 5 aptly named "Tattoo."In that episode, "Chakotay explains that he wears the tattoo to honour his father, who wore it to honour his ancestors. (His father died defending his home which was along the Federation/Cardassian border.) The alien leader explains that they knew those ancestors whom the aliens called "the Inheritors" when they visited Earth some 45,000 years earlier and gave them a gift of knowledge after being impressed by their respect for the land. It is this deep race memory which had earlier prompted Chakotay to have a brief mental image of one of his ancestors. " for the full episode synopsis go to http://star-trek-voyager.net/a1episodes/seasn2/ep25synopsis.htm
"With Robert Beltran as Chakotay they wanted to put a tattoo on him, so they said go to work and do some designs. And the designs went from a full Maori face to what we finally wound up with which was just this section up here on his head, but we did a full face, we did a half a face, and then when they finally decided we were going to keep it down to a localised area, then I started to get books out. I had books on Filipino designs and New Zealand designs and Japanese designs. And I made combinations of all these different whirls and twirls and twists and things that we could do on Robert. Then finally, after looking at a lot of them, we did a little testing. The one that he wore was a combination of Maori and Filipino."
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