My money’s on Maya of Psychon, from Space :1999.
Links-
http://www.space1999.net/~catacombs/main/images/space/tbc/sptbc188.jpg
http://www.space1999.net/~catacombs/main/images/cast/spmayapose2.jpg
http://www.space1999.net/~catacombs/main/images/cast/spmayamonster.jpg
http://www.space1999.net/~catacombs/main/images/space/tm/pub/sptmz0100.jpg
http://www.space1999.net/~catacombs/main/images/pub/spy2cs3.jpg
Clearly foxier than 7 of whatever.
Sorry, doesn’t do it for me, id take Jeri Ryan any day. Or Kira Nerise come to that.
Podkayne of Mars.
Leela from Futurama.
I always found those women with the four eyes and two mouths from Battlestar Galactica to be really damn cool. Not the most attractive, but that’s an image that stuck with me since I was a wee child.
Does Wonder Woman count? It’s a good toss in my mind between her and Xena (not sci, but defninitely fi).
If your definition of sci/fi includes the superhero genre, then my top choice would definitely be Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman! Other strong contenders would be Yvonne Craig as Batgirl; Caroline Munro as Stella Starr in the awful movie “Starcrash”; Michele Lintel and Joan Severance as Black Scorpion (Lintel starred in the TV version which followed the two Severance movies); Jeri Ryan as Seven of Nine; and of course Jane Fonda as Barbarella!
Having just gotten the Firefly DVDs for Christmas, I’m going to nominate Kaylee and Zoe. Zoe is such a sexy badass, and Kaylee is too cute for words.
I always liked Scirocco Jones.
If we include TV and fantasy, then there’s also Willow Rosenberg.
Honorable mention: Dr. Patricia ‘Pat’ Medford (pretty damn brave for a 50s SF heroine)
My vote: Sara Pezzini, wearing the Witchblade. Yancy Butler. Babe city.
Close second: Erin Gray as Wilma Deering in Buck Rogers. White spandex, wielding a blaster. Be still my heart.
Oh, my! blushes
I was going to nominate:
Aeryn Sun from Farscape.
Zoe from Firefly
Hilda, one of the few good things about the late Heinlein novels.
I was always more partial to Pamela Hensley as Princess Ardala. Not only was she sexy, but she was evil to boot. Rowwwrrrrr.
Sigourney Weaver’s Ripley.
Amanda Tapping, Samantha Carter on Stargate SG-1.
http://www.amandatapping.com/Scripts/PostNuke/modules/Gallery/albums/albun55/aba.jpg
Ripley, of course. There’s no competition really.
No.
Leela from Dr. Who!
Sara Pezzini gets a big second. (If she’d only stop getting drunk and beating up her father, who used to sing with the Lovin’ Spoonful.)
Sigourney Weaver. Yes.
Definitely Kaylee. And River.
Barbarella. Ain’t no one took off a space suit like Jane Fonda.
Princess Aura (Ornella Muti) from the 1980 Flash Gordon movie.
I have to call a tie between Ripley (Weaver) and Sam Carter (Tapping). Both of those ladies can kick some serious ass. What I love about both characters is that they are simply women, not gratuitous eye candy (although I don’t usually complain about GEC), that are capable, strong, smart, and attractive but don’t dress in patches of spandex and leather.
I second Tank Girl.
