Ladies of Sci-Fi

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Megan Denise Fox (born May 16, 1986 in Oak Ridge, Tennessee) is an American actress and model. She is known for her roles on the television series Hope & Faith (2004) and in the 2007 live-action film Transformers. She is of Irish, French and Native American ancestry. (from Wikipedia)






Transformers:
Attractive Women: ****
Sci-Fi Concepts: ****
Quality of Effects: *****
Acting/Direction: ***

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The question arises among Star Trek fans as to whether the original series, or it's spin-off many years later (Star Trek: The Next Generation) was the better show. The answer, in my opinion, is that they both were better than the other. That is, they had different strengths and weaknesses. TNG had better special effects (of course- it was two decades later) and better acting overall. The original series however, had greater originality because it was literally going where no show had gone before. Also, while some sets may have looked like so much papier mache, and too many planets were exactly like some historical period in our own history (cowboys, indians, nazis, gangland, etc.), the show didn't skimp when it came to providing stunning, out-of-this-world outfits for stunning women to wear. The Next Generation makes the future of fashion look like the Federation took style cues from the 1950s era Communist party in China; muted, baggy and unisex. Is it any wonder Picard would occasionally opt to get away to Rysa, the "pleasure planet?" The original series had regulars and guest stars who looked like they had sex and enjoyed it!



'The Man Trap', if I remember correctly, was the first aired episode (not the first filmed). While the plot basically revolves around a deadly creature that can appear like anyone you think of (particularly whom you desire), the episode introduces us to several lovely women, both recurring roles and one-episode guest stars.

A three member away team goes to a planet to perform routine medical exams on an archaeologist and his wife. The woman is Dr. Leonard McCoy's ex-girlfriend he hasn't seen in ten years.

Dr. McCoy sees exactly the same girl he remembers.



Captain James Kirk sees the older woman he expects due to Dr. McCoy's age. This version of Nancy (as the previous one was) is played by actress Jeanne Bal.



Young crewman Darnell sees a woman that, as he comments, looks just like a girl he left behind on the pleasure planet. Smooth move, dude! You just told your two superiors that the Doctor's ex looks like a prostitute. Darnell is excused to go outside. This version of Nancy was played by lovely actress Francine Pyne.



The lady excuses herself and walks by Darnell flirting heavily in a sort of Mae West fashion.
Dude, you are so toast!



If only he knew she really looks like... THIS!



(That thing scared the shit out of me at age seven. Hard to believe now, I know.)

Meanwhile, back on the Starship Enterprise bridge, Communications Officer Uhura is flirting with First Officer Mr. Spock. This episode introduces us to the very lovely Nichelle Nichols as Uhura, and Grace Lee Whitney as Yeoman Janice Rand (the blonde). It also introduces us to their usual attire: miniskirts, dark hose and gogo boots. Yum!






The creature kills men by sucking all of the salt out of their bodies. We never see exactly how this is accomplished (it is suggested that it is through some big octopus like suckers on the hands), but this scene suggests a different possibility to my mind...

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"Charlie X" didn't bring much in the way of guest stars but again featured Lt. Uhura and Yeoman Rand quite extensively. The premise has to do with a human male who ended up orphaned and alone as an infant on an alien planet. Energy beings gave him supernatural powers as a survival mechanism, but no real interaction or parenting while he grew. So he has the temperament and social skills of a two year old, the hormones of a twenty year old, and the power of a god to reshape reality. If you do something to tick him off, you might die, or be transformed into a lizard, or have your facial features erased.

When he arrives on the Enterprise, he develops a crush on Yeoman Rand. The captain ends up having to explain to him why it's not okay to slap a woman on the ass as a way of expressing friendship.




Yeoman Rand invites Charlie to join her in the Rec Room after her shift. This becomes a set piece for the lovely Nichelle Nichols. She does a very Eartha Kitt-like song and dance number about Mr. Spock's devilish look and heartbreaking appeal as Spock plays his Vulcan lyre. When Uhura turns her gently satirical wit to Charlie's crush on Yeoman Rand, he takes offense, gets an intense look and suddenly Uhura has laryngitis and Spock's lyre no longer can produce any sound.







I really like how Uhura was given screen time in these early episodes; before long all she ever got to do was hold a saltshaker to her ear and say things like "hailing frequencies open."



Growing uncomfortable with Charlie's intense crush, Yeoman Rand tries to introduce him to a crewmember closer to his age (played by Patricia McNulty) but he doesn't even talk to the girl.



Charlie quickly starts breaking all kinds of taboos like walking in on Yeoman Rand when she's dressed informally in her locked quarters. The show's producers often used a certain technique of soft-focus shots on women's faces.It featured the eyes lit and most of the face in shadow; you can see it here used on Grace Lee Whitney.



Eventually the energy beings come and take the horny teenager god back with them, telling Kirk that either Charlie would destroy humanity or humanity would destroy him in self-defense. One of those episodes that ended with wistful music and tears shed on the bridge. I do however believe that if a man had the powers of a god he would still think about sex every seven seconds.

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This episode features none of the regular series female stars, but has a prominent guest-starring role and a bit part that appears as though it was intended to be a recurring role. This episode was shot as a pilot before the others already covered, and there are many differences (cast, uniforms, bridge set, etc.).

First off, there is a beautiful captain's yeoman, identified only by her surname of Smith (Kirk calls her Jones by mistake). This is the only episode this character appears in, played by actress Andrea Dromm. She was far more attractive than Grace Lee Whitney IMO, but she didn't have much evidence of personality or chemistry in the slight bit of acting she gets to do here.



Lacking in neither beauty nor chemistry is the lovely Sally Kellerman in the guest starring role of Dr. Elizabeth Dehner. Kellerman may be best known as Nurse 'Hot Lips' O'Houlihan from the original film M.A.S.H.. Here she gets to spar with a flirting crew member on the bridge, and passionately argues her points at the captain's briefings (usually to counterpoint Mr. Spock, who uncharacteristically seems to shout all of his dialogue here). Dehner is one of the people onboard who gains god-like powers (again already?) when the Enterprise runs into an energy barrier at the edge of the galaxy (apparently in the future the best way to study something is to run into it and find out what happens). The power first makes you turn into a negative image sparkler, and then makes your eyes a reflective metallic color.






The crew decides to maroon a crewmate on an isolated planet before he kills them all. It turns into a showdown between the crazed god powered crewmember and Captain Kirk (with Dr. Dehner's god-like powered help). The result? Kirk just gets his shirt torn (funny how often that happened), and Dr. Dehner died. Which is too bad; it would have been great to see her in the miniskirts and gogo boots used in all subsequent episodes.



I figure that Kirk was so happy to still be alive and shirtless that he had an all-night session with Yeoman Smith, who got pregnant and decided to leave the service.

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This episode doesn't feature the ladies much. It's all about the ham in this episode, and that seems to be the specialty of the menfolk in the ST cast. An away party brings an unknown virus back to the ship that causes people to lose their inhibitions (in the future, you have to be infected by an alien virus to get a buzz). Lt. Uhura tries unsuccessfully to talk Sulu down from his Errol Flynn fantasy (it takes a Vulcan nerve pinch to take the steam out of him).



Yeoman Rand has a comical scene where an unnamed amorous crewman gives her the Pepe LePew treatment; he is serenading her in the hallway, blocking her from reporting to the bridge. Mr. Spock sternly orders the crewman to step aside, but then as Spock leaves he jumps back in fromt of Rand again.




Newly introduced character Nurse Christine Chapel (played by Majel Barrett) gets infected and passes the virus on to Mr. Spock, confessing her love for him. Spock goes into crybaby mode.





But the person who gets the biggest dose of the hammy-overacting-virus is Captain Kirk. In fact, I'm not sure he ever received the cure.

While in the throes of virus melodramatis, Kirk speaks of his longing for his Yeoman. He explains to weepy Spock that he can't have his yeoman because of his captain's duties. Watchers of the series, however, will realize that these duties didn't keep Kirk from bedding down almost every female in the series, including raping Yeoman Rand- but that's another story.

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Carol Lynley (born February 13, 1942) is an American actress and former child model. Lynley is known for her roles in The Night Stalker, Man from U.N.C.L.E., Hound-Dog Man, Return to Peyton Place, Under the Yum Yum Tree, Bunny Lake is Missing, Harlow, The Poseidon Adventure, and the pilot television movie for Fantasy Island. Although especially well-known for her performance as a singer in The Poseidon Adventure, her singing voice was, in fact, that of studio singer Renée Armand. Lynley posed nude for the March 1965 edition of P1@yb0y magazine. (from Wikipedia)

Here's an archive of stills and other images of Lynley. I had such a crush on her when I was a kid.

(Zip file; no pw; 2.2 mb; 90 pics)

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Mara Corday, P1@yb0y Magazine's "Miss October" in 1958 (shared with Pat Sheehan, the first time the magazine named two women as P1@yma+e of the Month at the same time), who went on to star in three classic horror movies of the late Fifties: Tarantula ! (1955), The Black Scorpion (1957), and The Giant Claw (1957).

IMDb Mini Biography By: Tom Weaver
The actress was born Marilyn Watts in Santa Monica, California, 17 years before she put her foot on the bottom step of the show biz ladder, dancing in the back row of the chorus in "Earl Carroll's Revue" at the famed showman's theater-restaurant in Hollywood. Modeling for photographers led to wider exposure and ultimately to TV roles and bit parts in low-budget movies. As a Universal-International contract player, she was in most every type of B picture that the studio made. She gave up acting in the early '60s to concentrate on marriage and motherhood during 17 tumultuous years as the wife of actor Richard Long. Since his 1974 death, she's played supporting parts in her friend Clint Eastwood's movies, just as he played a supporting role in one of hers (Tarantula (1955)).

Height: 5' 5" (1.65 m)
Measurements: 35-23-34 (reported in 1953), (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine).
Spouse: Richard Long (1957 - 1974), three children; sister-in-law of Marshall Thompson and Barbara Long.











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Susan Denberg, born Dietlinde Zechner in what is now Polczyn Zdrój, Poland. She was P1@yb0y Magazine's "Miss August" in 1966. Ms. Denberg during an all too brief motion picture and television career contributed to two enduring classics: Frankenstein Created Woman (1966), starring the immortal Peter Cushing, and the equally unforgettable "Mudd's Women" from the original Star Trek TV series.

IMDb Mini Biography By: Ted Newsom
After becoming immersed in the 60s high life of drugs and sex, Denberg left show business and returned to Austria. News interviews at the time show a depressed Denberg in the company of her mother, at home in Klagenfurt. These news items, repeated in fan periodicals for years, gave the impression Denberg was suicidal or had already died. Actually, she is still alive.

Height: 5' 7" (1.70 m)
Weight: 123 lbs
Measurments: 34-25-34









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In this episode, a malfunction of the transporter, a teleportation device, splits Captain Kirk into two men: the high-functioning, intellectual and mild-mannered "nice" Kirk, and the animal-brain, violent, can't-keep-it-in-his-pants "naughty" Kirk. Naughty Kirk can be identified by mascara and overacting.




Naughty Kirk immediately goes to Dr. McCoy's sickbay and demands his "medicinal" supply of Saurian brandy.



Ranging through the ship with a buzz, Naughty Kirk gets a wicked smile on his face when he sees the quarters of his yeoman, Janice Rand. He enters, explains that she needs to stop trying to deny her feelings and proceeds to try to rape her. She gives him a good scratch on the face, and he escapes after beating up a random crewman.





Nice Kirk gets called to explain why Yeoman Rand is accusing him of rape. She gets to give a confused testimony in smeared "victim" mascara.



Having traded uniforms with Nice Kirk, Naughty Kirk encounters Rand in the hallway and apologizes for the actions of his "other" self. He invites himself to her quarters later to explain further...



... but both Kirks are dying in their split state. Naughty Kirk is taken into custody (here both Kirks engage in a unique form of self-love). The captain is successfully reintegrated.



In the finish on the bridge, Kirk and Yeoman Rand hem and haw without saying much. In a stunningly politically incorrect moment, Spock taunts Rand, implying with a smirk that perhaps she liked Naughty Kirk, which gets a frosty stare from her.

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Zoe Saldaña (full name Zoe Yadira Zaldaña Nazario, born June 19, 1978) is an American actress. She is also known as Zoë Saldana, Zoe Saldaña, and Zoë Saldaña. She is known for playing Anamaria in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl and Uhura in the 2009 film Star Trek. Saldana was born in New Jersey to Dominican parents. She is of Lebanese, Indian, Irish and Jamaican descent. She was raised in Queens, New York, and her first languages are English and Spanish. (from Wikipedia)

Here are some pictures of this lovely actress. I really enjoyed her in the new Star Trek.

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