This week's poll offers a choice between two lovely, lusty lieutenants from the original Star Trek:

Lieutenant Marlena Moreau, the ruthless "Captain's woman" in the Bearded Spock universe of Mirror, Mirror (played by Barbara Luna):

And Lieutenant Marla McGivers, who fell hard for genetically-enhanced superman Khan Noonian Singh in Space Seed (portrayed by Madlyn Rhue):

Have fun, and check out the Gallery of previous winners.

Results (Posted 3 May 2005):

Lt. Marlena Moreau - 44 of 68 votes for 65% -- WINNER!
Lt. Marla McGivers - 24 of 68 votes for 35%

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This week's poll visits a classic semi-SF movie from 30 years ago, The Stepford Wives. Watching this movie with my wife, we couldn't help commenting on how ugly the mid-70s were. However, our candidates this week are anything but ugly:

First up is Katharine Ross, playing the housewife/photographer Joanne Eberhart, who misses the sounds of the big city and discovers the deadly secret of Stepford Village too late:

Next up is Texan Paula Prentiss, who portrays the outspoken Bobbie Markowe ("upwardly mobile for Markowitz"):

Finally, everyone's favorite castaway Tina Louise plays the frustrated housewife Charmaine Wimperis:

Enjoy!

Results (posted 26 April 2005):

Joanne 21 of 58 votes for 36%
Bobbie 12 of 58 votes for 21%
Charmaine 25 of 58 votes for 43% -- WINNER!

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For this week's poll, there's no real unifying theme, just a small selection from the many lovely ladies who appeared in the original Star Trek.

I know there are many, many worthy candidates, so if you don't see your favorite, name her in the comments. But please review earlier polls and the Winners' Gallery before criticizing me for the presence or absence of some candidate or another. The fields of Star Trek are fertile, and we will eventually take the many poll finalists and pit them against one another in a "Sweet 16"-style tournament. Without further ado:

From A Private Little War, the sexy but deceitful healer Nona (portrayed by Nancy Kovack):

From The Omega Glory, the Yang warrior Sirah (portrayed by Irene Kelly):

And from The Paradise Syndrome, Captain Kirk's only wife, Miramanee (played by Sabrina Scharf):

(All pre-cropped images courtesy of AllYourTrekAreBelongTo.us)

Results (Posted 19 April 2005):

Nona 21 of 71 votes for 30%
Sirah 38 of 71 votes for 53% -- WINNER
Miramanee 12 of 71 votes for 17%

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This week's poll continues to highlight some of the lesser-known SF actresses who have starred in more obscure SF series -- in this case, Farscape.

Claudia Black portrays Aeryn Sun, a tough former soldier of the Peacekeeper corps:

Tammy McIntosh plays the part of Joolushko Tunai Fenta Hovalis (or, more simply, "Jool"), an intelligent but fiery scientist:

Raelee Hill's character is Sikozu Svala Shanti Sugaysi Shanu, a member of the Kalish species who can walk on walls and ceilings:

Finally, Gigi Edgley portrays Chiana, a sarcastic survivor:

Results (Posted 13 April 2005):

Claudia Black (as Aeryn Sun) 34 of 86 votes for 40% (WINNER)
Tammy McIntosh (as Jool) 4 of 86 votes for 5%
Raelee Hill (as Sikozu) 26 of 86 votes for 30%
Gigi Edgley (as Chiana) 22 of 86 votes for 25%

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1 I guess blue women arn't your cup of tea - PA'U ZOTOH ZHAAN (played by Virginia Hey).

Posted by: owlish at April 05, 2005 10:20 PM (sBj9U)

2 Nah, Twi'leks (in the Star Wars universe) look fine to me, so the blue has nothing to do with it. Just rank ignorance of the show on my part -- I went with the four names offered up by the commenter a couple of weeks ago. Aside: I'm gonna wait a day or two to see if anyone else volunteers for an interview before posting questions for you.

Posted by: JohnL at April 05, 2005 10:26 PM (gplif)

3 Yikes! Strike that. I just went and googled the character. I would have excluded her from the poll had I known to even consider her. Not a "babe" under even a very liberal and broad-minded definition.

Posted by: JohnL at April 05, 2005 10:28 PM (gplif)

4 Heh. So, do we have an exact definition of a babe, yet?

Posted by: owlish at April 06, 2005 12:41 AM (sBj9U)

5 Having met the actress, I've got to concurr with JohnL. As a recovering ex-Scaper, I'll add this thought: mmmm, leather. >

Posted by: Lysander at April 06, 2005 12:59 PM (ShW/G)

6 more obscure SF series -- in this case, Farscape. Heathen! Infidel! You know, of course, that Farscape has had a larger national audience than Andromeda, has had an audience close to Buffy's final few years, and has a larger international audience than SG-1?

Posted by: scottm at April 06, 2005 01:53 PM (7vGc/)

7 Scottm: Heh heh heh. Actually, I didn't know. I'm a strange sort of technophile who hasn't had cable (or satellite) TV for 10 years now, so to me these series are obscure. I'll catch up on the DVDs someday.

Posted by: JohnL at April 06, 2005 05:55 PM (gplif)

8 Except Andromeda has shown on regular TV. I think.

Posted by: owlish at April 06, 2005 11:36 PM (sBj9U)

9 You may be right, Owlish. Some obscure UHF broadcast channel in the middle of Saturday afternoon when I'm out doing yardwork or coaching soccer teams. With reruns at 2:00 AM. Someday, I'll check the DVDs out or finally break down and get cable and a TiVO to hoover up all the shows I've ever missed.

Posted by: JohnL at April 07, 2005 12:39 AM (gplif)

10 LOL Scottm, you sound like a Scaper! Though, I'm surprised that John didn't use some of the publicity photos of Ms. Black as Aeryn - leather and all >

Posted by: Lysander at April 07, 2005 08:59 AM (ShW/G)

11 Lysander, those kind of pics usually make it into the Gallery (compare the Gallery pics to the poll pics). There's a method to my madness: I try to keep the polls mostly even, with good pics of all contestants, but none obviously better than the others. Once there's a winner, though, I usually look for a really, really good pic to post in the Gallery. (Compare the Lexa Doig pic from the last poll with her Gallery shot, for example).

Posted by: JohnL at April 07, 2005 09:11 AM (Hs4rn)

12 LOL. Good point.

Posted by: Lysander at April 07, 2005 03:45 PM (ShW/G)

13 Lord, this one is *hard* to call. They're all real babes!

Posted by: Ranten.N.Raven at April 08, 2005 08:18 PM (fghYh)

14 A little late on posting this but I'll take Chiana any day! Just imagine the things she's done to D'Argo! Aeryn was cool too...until she got too skinny.

Posted by: Princess Cat at April 13, 2005 03:23 PM (K10IP)

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