She’s killed vampires, kicked terrorist ass with Arnold Schwarzenegger, battled bitchy cheerleaderse, helped dead people get justice, and now she’s your perfect dream girl in Dollhouse — basically, she can be anyone you want, even if it’s just to piss some people off at your ex-girlfriend’s wedding. And oh yeah, ass kicking. Did I mention that Eliza Dushku does that pretty well, too? So of course, those are the perfect qualifications for our Sci-Fi Babe Spotlight. And even if it wasn’t, well, we would have fudged it to make it fit, anyway.
When you think about it, Charlize Theron as Aeon Flux should have resulted in some good box office. The futuristic actioner had one of the hottest movie stars in the world as its lead, in a movie where she’s required to wear a variety of groovy and sometimes very revealing outfits. She’s also a kickass heroine who just happens to be an elite assassin, and who doesn’t love a kickass heroine in a sci-fi action movie? Geeks love sci-fi movies where the girls can protect and kick their ass at the same time. Plus, the animated movie that “Aeon Flux” was based on was kind of a hit on TV, or at least, had plenty of cult following. 
It’s not that Morena Baccarin has only done sci-fi works, it’s just that’s where we discovered her. And let’s face it, Morena Baccarin will always be known to geeks everywhere as Inara on Joss Whedon’s Firefly (made into a movie version called “Serenity”), the uber courtesan with a heart of gold and enough fancy dresses to open her own store. She reprised the role in “Serenity”, and later stuck with the sci-fi niche when she did a baddie turn on Stargate: SG-1. And if the voice of Black Canary on the Justice League cartoon sounds familiar, that’s Morena, too.
Who didn’t sit up and take notice when Grace Park guest-starred on Stargate SG:1 as the very hot Asian girl who had a thing for Daniel Jackson? Then she parlayed that into a major role on the newly minted Battlestar Galactica, which gave her enough street cred to do voice work on games like Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars. Currently, you can catch Grace on BSG, which enters its final fourth season next month. Here’s our Sci-Fi Babe Spotlight on Grace Park, who, at 5′9″, is probably the tallest Korean woman I’ve ever seen, on film or off.
I have to admit that when I first saw Katee Sackhoff on Battlestar Galactica, I didn’t exactly fell in love. In fact, I kinda of loathe her character. But slowly but surely (about the third episode), Katee Sackhoff and Starbuck grew on me, until she was the best thing about the show. She translated that likability to The Bionic Woman, where even playing a bad girl, she was still the best thing about that short-lived TV show. Here is our spotlight on Battlestar Galactica’s Katee Sackhoff, the ass-kickingest chick on sci-fi.
When you’ve starred in one science fiction show, it’s almost a given that you can waltz into another science fiction show without any background check. Once you’ve been on one show, you can go to another without a problem, because even though something like Firefly was lowly rated and barely seen, you’ve still got sci-fi cache. Which explains why Jewel Staite easily jumped from the cancelled Firefly to the running Stargate: Atlantis, where she’s just nabbed a regular starring role. Jewel Staite is our Sci-Fi Babe Spotlight of the day.
Tricia Helfer hasn’t quite become a bona fide sci-fi babe, but what the hey, she’s one of the stars of, probably the most high-profile sci-fi show on TV at the moment, Battlestar Galactica. Tell me that show would work better without Tricia Helfer’s uber sexy Number Six. You know what would have added to Tricia’s sci-fi bonafides? If her show Them, a sci-fi/aliens invasion show, had gotten on the air. But oh well. BSG alone more than qualifies.
While writing that article about the Henson Company making their Farscape episodes available on iTunes, I was reminded why I loved Farscape so much. Sure, the stories were wacky, the series itself was highly unpredictable and always full of surprises. And oh yeah, one other thing: Claudia Black played a kick-ass heroine chick so well it was hard to imagine anyone else playing Aeryn Sun, badass Peacekeeper turned badass fugitive.
Our sci-fi babe spotlight for the day is Summer Glau, who is quickly becoming the go-to girl for “hot sci-fi chick” characters. She’s played the role in Joss Whedon’s cancelled Firefly (and the movie version “Serenity”) and is now wowing boys everywhere as the hottest looking Terminator since, well, ever in Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles TV show, which you can catch on FOX weekly.
Before there was Seven of Nine, there was Colonel Wilma Deering. What would Buck Rogers in the 25th Century be like without Erin Gray and her super tight flight suit? Not much, that’s for sure. You can only stand a certain amount of action scenes of Buck Rogers karate chopping aliens before you get bored. That’s where Wilma Deering and her ace flying came in.