Before Andrea Martin accepted the role, director René Auberjonois (Odo) confided in her that working under the Ferengi prosthetics would be the hardest acting she'd ever done if she'd never worked under such makeup before.
Having never before worn prostheses,[REF] Cecily Adams found the Ishka makeup "rather daunting" and described the three to four hour application process before moving on to costuming.