Star Trek Sexy Spotlight - Gillian Taylor - Catherine Hicks

Captain, there be whales here!  So said the excited Scotty (James Doohan) in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, after the huge humpback whales were beamed aboard the 'borrowed' Klingon Bird Of Prey.  The whales, named George and Gracie after the great comedy team of George Burns and Gracie Allen, were the key to telling a future probe, which was devastating Earth, what it could 'go do with itself' - according to that gentle physician, Dr. McCoy.  The woman who had looked after these important ocean dwellers was Dr. Gillian Taylor - played by actress Catherine Hicks.  She's perhaps best known as the mom from Child's Play - the first Chucky movie.

Gillian was romanced - or more accurately courted - by Captain Kirk (William Shatner), so he could get his hands on her whales - literally.  The two had great chemistry, and later in a few Star Trek comic books, the two even became a couple - at least for a short time.  

What may be most interesting to die hard Trekkers is the breaking - or at least bending - of the Temporal Prime Directive here.  Unlike so many time travel adventures in Gene Roddenberry's universe, the crew of Enterprise take Dr. Taylor back with them into the future.  The logic:  Since Earth's future marine biologists are unfamiliar with real live humpback whales, Gillian will be indispensable in caring for them.