# Hottest of the televison geek girls. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 28, 2009, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-of-the-televison-geek-girls/519272 "2009-11-28T21:58:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2009, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-of-the-televison-geek-girls/519272/1 "2009-11-28T21:58:22Z")
Public poll, no set ending date, one answer per respondent, blah blah blah. Bear in mind that we’re not assessing the hotness of the _actresses_, but of the _characters_. Below you will find safe for work images of all the damsels in question. You may, of course, wish to add your own pics if you feel I’ve overlooked anyone. Emily Deschanel ([Temperance Brennan](http://static.tvfanatic.com/images/gallery/temperance-brennan.jpg)on Bones) Alyson Hannigan ([Willow Rosenberg](http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTI0NTQwOTA1NV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTYwODI4NjEz._V1._SX400_SY400_.jpg)on Buffy) Amy Acker ([Fred Burkle](http://farm1.static.flickr.com/7/6130859_442e36dc5f.jpg)on Bones) Jewel Staite ([Kaylee Frye](http://www.firefly.withoutshadow.com/gallery/promos/kaylee/images/kaylee03.jpg)on Firefly) (hey that rhymes!) Linda Park ([Hoshi Sato](http://ui08.gamespot.com/359/empresshoshisatomirror_2.jpg)on Enterprise) (and yes, I realize this particular image is cheating). Pauley Perrette ([Abby Sciuto](http://img.ozap.com/00753906-photo-pauley-perette-est-la-gothique-abby-sciuto-dans-ncis.jpg)on NCIS) Maryn Lynn Rajskub ([Chloe O’Brian](http://l.yimg.com/l/tv/us/img/site/31/57/0000053157_20081104112631.jpg)from 24) Allison Mack ([Chloe Sullivan](http://z.about.com/d/tvdramas/1/0/4/H/small-alimack.jpg)from Smallville) ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2009, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-of-the-televison-geek-girls/519272/2 "2009-11-28T22:03:22Z")
Gotta cast my vote for Abby Normal of NCIS. “Bones” Brennan would be smokin’ hot, if she weren’t such a cold fish. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2009, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-of-the-televison-geek-girls/519272/3 "2009-11-28T22:05:44Z")
Kaylee, now and forever. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2009, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-of-the-televison-geek-girls/519272/4 "2009-11-28T22:10:16Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Kaylee, now and forever. Oh, please. She couldn’t repolarize the deflector dish to save her life. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2009, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-of-the-televison-geek-girls/519272/5 "2009-11-28T22:11:07Z")
Hmm I didn’t know Amy Acker was on Bones (I usually catch it in reruns or one of those marathons). And she has the same first name that she had on Angel? ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2009, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-of-the-televison-geek-girls/519272/6 "2009-11-28T22:12:23Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > > Hmm I didn’t know Amy Acker was on Bones (I usually catch it in reruns or one of those marathons). And she has the same first name that she had on Angel? Rage, vengeance, exploding hamsters, yawn. The sad part is that I proofread twice before posting. **RobotArms** , the AH link works for me, so I don’t know what to tell you. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2009, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-of-the-televison-geek-girls/519272/7 "2009-11-28T22:15:09Z")
I’ll have to think about this for a while. A long while. No hurry at all. In the meantime, I don’t think Amy Acker is on _Bones_, and the Alyson Hannigan link doesn’t work directly. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2009, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-of-the-televison-geek-girls/519272/8 "2009-11-28T22:15:45Z")
My heart is now & always will be Alyson’s! ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2009, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-of-the-televison-geek-girls/519272/9 "2009-11-28T22:19:00Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > Oh, please. She couldn’t repolarize the deflector dish to save her life. Real geek girls don’t _need_ deflector dishes. They solve their Captain’s problems with _science_, not _technobabble_. \*\*\*Kaylee: \*_“Shouldna be so clean. It’s a dead giveaway you don’t belong, you always gotta be tidy. Don’t pay anybody in advance. And don’t ride in anything with a Capasan-38 engine, they fall right outta the sky.”_ ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2009, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-of-the-televison-geek-girls/519272/10 "2009-11-28T22:29:29Z")
Tie: Willow and Dark Willow. Yeah, I have a thing for spell slinging redheads. ---
**Author:** ![DeafAngelboy23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e5b9ba/32.png) [@DeafAngelboy23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeafAngelboy23)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2009, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-of-the-televison-geek-girls/519272/11 "2009-11-28T22:47:00Z")
I voted for Kaylee. ---
**Author:** ![Barking\_Dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Barking\_Dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barking_Dog)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2009, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-of-the-televison-geek-girls/519272/12 "2009-11-28T23:01:11Z")
Can’t there a multiple choice option? ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2009, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-of-the-televison-geek-girls/519272/13 "2009-11-28T23:05:10Z")
I’ve declared my love for both Hoshi and Willow quite often on these boards, but I don’t think either of them are hot so much as cute, and none of the rest of the women I’m familiar with in the OP are hot, either. Though I’m actually a bigger fan of the later host, I’d say the hottest geek girl that I can think of without racking my brain would be Jadzia Dax. ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2009, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-of-the-televison-geek-girls/519272/14 "2009-11-28T23:07:23Z")
What, no Kari Byron? ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2009, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-of-the-televison-geek-girls/519272/15 "2009-11-28T23:21:27Z")
> [@Barking\_Dog](#): > > Can’t there a multiple choice option? Multiple choice is for people who don’t have the courage to stand behind their irrational prejudices. ---
**Author:** ![well\_he\_s\_back](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/3ab097/32.png) [@well\_he\_s\_back](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/well_he_s_back)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2009, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-of-the-televison-geek-girls/519272/16 "2009-11-28T23:52:53Z")
I would vote for Sara Gilbert’s “Leslie Winkel” character from The Big Bang Theory ---
**Author:** ![dnooman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/839c29/32.png) [@dnooman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dnooman)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2009, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-of-the-televison-geek-girls/519272/17 "2009-11-28T23:54:29Z")
If hot chicks on Firefly are game, why no [Morena Baccarin](http://us.imdb.com/name/nm1072555/) or [Summer Glau](http://us.imdb.com/name/nm1132359/)? I would have picked either before Jewel. I thought this was gonna be a Morgan Webb, Layla Kayleigh, Olivia Munn, Kari Byron kinda poll based on the title. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2009, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-of-the-televison-geek-girls/519272/18 "2009-11-29T00:03:57Z")
> [@dnooman](#): > > If hot chicks on Firefly are game, why no [Morena Baccarin](http://us.imdb.com/name/nm1072555/) or [Summer Glau](http://us.imdb.com/name/nm1132359/)? Well, I was looking for fictional characters, for one thing. And neither Inara nor River was a geek, while Kaylee surely was. Admittedly, I would have been wiser to put the character names first and the actor names second, and to make certain that the pictures were all of the actors in character. The poll isn’t about _hot girls beloved by geeks._ The poll is about _hot fictional female geeks_. > [@](#): > > I thought this was gonna be a Morgan Webb, Layla Kayleigh, Olivia Munn, Kari Byron kinda poll based on the title. I don’t think any of those women qualify as geeks in reality. Kari Byron has the brains, but she lacks the social awkwardness of the true geek. (Admittely, so does Hoshi Sato.) ---
**Author:** ![Quercus\_alba](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quercus_alba/32/4061_2.png) [@Quercus\_alba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quercus_alba)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2009, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-of-the-televison-geek-girls/519272/19 "2009-11-29T01:49:47Z")
How did you leave [Tina Fey](http://thinkbing.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/celebrity-pictures-tina-fey-smart-sexy.jpg) (OK, Liz Lemon) off this list? ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2009, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-of-the-televison-geek-girls/519272/20 "2009-11-29T01:51:46Z")
So, wait, this is a poll about womens’ hotness…except it’s not and it’s all about the characters? Why bother posting pictures? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hottest-of-the-televison-geek-girls/519272.md?page=2)