# Who is the coolest babe in sci/fi? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 30, 2003, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-coolest-babe-in-sci-fi/221751 "2003-12-30T13:06:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Horseflesh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horseflesh/32/7502_2.png) [@Horseflesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horseflesh)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-coolest-babe-in-sci-fi/221751/21 "2003-12-31T00:02:14Z")
> [@](#): > > > [@](#): > > > > _Originally posted by Dr. Rieux_ > > **Leela from Futurama.** > > \*Originally posted by Eats\_Crayons \* > \*\*No. > > Leela from _Dr. Who_! \*\* No. Leeloo (Milla Jovovich) from _The Fifth Element_. Theora Jones (Amanda Pays) from _Max Headroom_. And a third for Lori Petty as Tank Girl. Woof. ---
**Author:** ![Scorpio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Scorpio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scorpio)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-coolest-babe-in-sci-fi/221751/22 "2003-12-31T01:04:05Z")
Another vote for **Aeryn Sun**. I’d just about convert for her. ---
**Author:** ![Kalashnikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/2bfe46/32.png) [@Kalashnikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalashnikov)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-coolest-babe-in-sci-fi/221751/23 "2003-12-31T01:22:44Z")
Sara Connor. and not just because she’s got guns and muscles, I’ve always found Linda Hamilton to be a faciinating mixture of toughness and elegance. ---
**Author:** ![Hunter\_Hawk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/50afbb/32.png) [@Hunter\_Hawk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hunter_Hawk)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-coolest-babe-in-sci-fi/221751/24 "2003-12-31T02:05:55Z")
C’mell the girlygirl. > [@](#): > > She was a girlygirl and they were true men, the lords of creation, but she pitted her wits against them and she won. It had never happened before, and it is sure never to happen again, but she did win. She was not even of human extraction. She was cat-derived, though human in outward shape, which explains the C in front of her name. Her father’s name was C’mackintosh and her name C’mell. She won her tricks against the lawful and assembled Lords of the Instrumentality. > > It all happened at Earthport, greatest of buildings, smallest of cities, standing twenty-five kilometers high at the western edge of the Smaller Sea of Earth. –From “The Ballad of Lost C’mell” by Cordwainer Smith ---
**Author:** ![Hometownboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5e9695/32.png) [@Hometownboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hometownboy)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-coolest-babe-in-sci-fi/221751/25 "2003-12-31T02:17:52Z")
Heinlein’s **Friday** does it for me, though at a younger stage I was attracted to **Jirel of Joiry**. And there’s always **Lady Sally** of Sally’s Place… ---
**Author:** ![rjk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@rjk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjk)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-coolest-babe-in-sci-fi/221751/26 "2003-12-31T03:09:24Z")
Don’t mess with Ripley! Quiet and capable, not especially beautiful, nobody to be concerned about … until the bad stuff starts to come down. Though I always kind of liked Tasha Yar from STNG. ---
**Author:** ![drewbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drewbert/32/15890_2.png) [@drewbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewbert)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-coolest-babe-in-sci-fi/221751/27 "2003-12-31T03:34:28Z")
Aeryn Sun. Distant second: Mirror-universe Jadzia Dax. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-coolest-babe-in-sci-fi/221751/28 "2003-12-31T03:48:32Z")
Ivanava from Babylon 5. Or that green skin chick from TOS. ---
**Author:** ![First\_Amongst\_Daves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/4491bb/32.png) [@First\_Amongst\_Daves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/First_Amongst_Daves)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-coolest-babe-in-sci-fi/221751/29 "2003-12-31T03:52:12Z")
Molly / Sally from William Gibson’s Neuromancer books. She kicks arse. ---
**Author:** ![Pepsi\_Classic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f19dbf/32.png) [@Pepsi\_Classic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pepsi_Classic)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-coolest-babe-in-sci-fi/221751/30 "2003-12-31T03:54:35Z")
No mention of Princess Leia? Honestly, how many guys jacked off for the first time thinking of her in Jedi? (you know the scene) ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-coolest-babe-in-sci-fi/221751/31 "2003-12-31T04:05:03Z")
Clarrissa MacDougal, or “Red”. AKA the “first Lenswoman” and mother of “The Children of the Lens”. Co-inventor of the “ **wide open two way** ”!! What could be hotter than that?? ---
**Author:** ![Patr100](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@Patr100](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patr100)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-coolest-babe-in-sci-fi/221751/32 "2003-12-31T04:06:09Z")
I’m not a fan of the film but Carrie Ann Moss looked pretty good as Trinity in the Matrix. ---
**Author:** ![Jurph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/50afbb/32.png) [@Jurph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jurph)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-coolest-babe-in-sci-fi/221751/33 "2003-12-31T05:49:05Z")
Lieutenant Ellen Ripley, last survivor of the _Nostromo_. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-coolest-babe-in-sci-fi/221751/34 "2003-12-31T06:16:13Z")
It’s got to be Commander Susan Ivanova, from Babylon 5. How many others can have the guts to make a statement like the following? " I am Susan Ivanova, Commander. Daughter of Andre and Sophie Ivanov. I am the right hand of vengeance and the boot that is going to kick your sorry ass all the way back to Earth, goddammit! I am death incarnate, and the last living thing that you are ever going to see. _ **God** _ sent me. " ---
**Author:** ![Tars\_Tarkas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tars\_Tarkas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tars_Tarkas)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-coolest-babe-in-sci-fi/221751/35 "2003-12-31T06:25:16Z")
Hoshi!!! (or Dejah Thoris or Princess Leia) ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-coolest-babe-in-sci-fi/221751/36 "2003-12-31T06:28:02Z")
Was there ever anybody to compare with Wally Wood’s [Sally Forth](http://www.unrealx.com/comicbooks/compleatsallyforth.htm)? I think the link is safe, because the details are too small to upset anyone, darn it (although you may have a problem with the ads). But if you look real close you can get an idea. ---
**Author:** ![Odinoneeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@Odinoneeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odinoneeye)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 8:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-coolest-babe-in-sci-fi/221751/37 "2003-12-31T08:30:16Z")
The original Kochanski from Red Dwarf. The cute blonde with the cockney accent, not the stuck up brunette from the 7th and 8th series. Wilma Deering has gotta be up there too. Ardalla was just too sleazy for me. For sheer eye candy, Xev from Lexx (again, the first one over the second) ---
**Author:** ![Mycroft\_Holmes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a5b964/32.png) [@Mycroft\_Holmes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mycroft_Holmes)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-coolest-babe-in-sci-fi/221751/38 "2003-12-31T12:03:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Hometownboy \* > \*\*Heinlein’s **Friday** does it for me… \*\* I was always preferred Heinleins **Hamadryad**. If this board’s **Hamadryad** even comes close to the original, I will begin considering divorcing my current wife and stalking her. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Mycroft\_Holmes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a5b964/32.png) [@Mycroft\_Holmes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mycroft_Holmes)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-coolest-babe-in-sci-fi/221751/39 "2003-12-31T12:05:12Z")
That should of course be: “I always preferred…”. I guess the champagne from my company’s New Year’s lunch is getting to me. ---
**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-coolest-babe-in-sci-fi/221751/40 "2003-12-31T13:12:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Zebra \* > \*\*Or that green skin chick from TOS. \*\* I could be mistaken, but wasn’t that Yvonne Craig (Batgirl)? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-coolest-babe-in-sci-fi/221751.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-the-coolest-babe-in-sci-fi/221751.md?page=3)