We’ve always liked the way the lamest disguise always worked so well in the old TV shows. For example, if Superman puts on a pair of glasses, then nobody on the planet can recognize him, or the way Batman’s cowl left the lower half of his face exposed but nobody ever recognized Bruce Wayne’s face.
One of the best examples of this in Star Trek is in the episode “Errand Of Mercy” when the Organians are hiding Kirk from the Klingons. They dress him up in a sheepskin jacket, a pair of blue tights, and a pair of what look like fuzzy ugg boots then tell the Klingon commander that his name is Barona. Now, given the Klingon’s reaction when he finally did learn that it was Captain Kirk, it is obvious that the Klingons know very well who James Kirk is and surely they have pictures of him. But, dress him in native clothes and lie about his name and nobody will ever suspect a thing.
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