Ensign Ro - Michelle Forbes

She was the Bajoran with the checkered past who gave Commander Riker more than a little pause when she came aboard the Enterprise NCC-1701-D for a vital mission.  Played by actress Michelle Forbes, Ro Laren - or Laren Ro, since Bajorans use their surname first - would eventually become an important part of Captain Picard's Enterprise.

Guinan and Ro in Ten Forward

Kirk VS Picard - Sexy Shat or Sexy Stew?

The Kirk or The Picard?  The Shat or the Stew?  The original or the next generation?  Star Trek fans have more than just Captain Kirk (William Shatner) and Captain Picard (Patrick Stewart) when it comes to choosing the sexier starship commander, but let's face it - these are the two we most often watch.  Set phasers on seductive poses!

Star Trek Sexy Spotlight - Dr. Selar - Suzie Plakson

Vulcan, heal thyself.  In the case of the medical professional Dr. Selar (Suzie Plakson), she's all about healing the crew of Captain Picard's Enterprise.  Selar is one of those characters who - although only actually appearing in one TNG episode, The Schizoid Man -  fans love and want to know get to know better.  Despite her only appearance, Selar is mentioned in many other episodes.  Plakson's most famous other Trek character was playing Worf's doomed love, the fiery, human Klingon hybrid, K'Ehlyer.

Star Trek Sexy Spotlight - Kes - Jennifer Lien

We met the enigmatic Kes (Jennifer Lien) on Voyager.  She was an Occampan - an alien species who didn't have a long lifespan. Voyager's Captain Janeway (Kate Mulgrew) took Kes and boyfriend Neelix (Ethan Phillips) into the fold.  She relied upon their knowledge of the Delta Quadrant, as the starship made its journey home.  Kes had many looks during her tenure, and by the time of her departure, she had survived many incredible adventures.

Neelix's Ship - Voyager Spotlight

Neelix became many things on Voyager - cook, host, guide, inspirational icon.  To some he was admirable, even cute - to others he was just plain annoying.  However, before he came aboard Janeway's starship, he had his own ship - the freighter, The Baxial.

Star Trek Sexy StarShips - The Delta Flyer From Voyager

Sexy is as sexy does.  In this case, sexy is as sexy flies - or warps.  Lt. Tom Paris loves piloting starships, and he loves tinkering in his spare time.  It was no wonder that he'd come up with the Delta Flyer.  The ship is sort of a shuttle craft on steroids.  During Voyager's long time in the Delta Quadrant, the Delta Flyer was created to answer a need for greater security and flexibility in the Starfleet vessel's trip back home to the Alpha Quadrant.  I wonder if Geordi LaForge was jealous?

Star Trek Sexy Spotlight - T'Pring - Arelne Martel - Amok Time

Can a Vulcan be a bitch?  It all depends on your definition - of both, that is.  The sly, manipulating Vulcan beauty called T'Pring definitely demonstrates what many would call major bitchiness.  Of course to her - and students of Vulcan logic - her actions in the episode, Amok Time, are supremely logical.  Played by actress Arlene Martel, T'Pring impresses us with her beauty and strategic mind.  Also, as the first Vulcan female to be seen on the original series, T'Pring becomes a kind of standard bearer for the gender - thankfully, though, her actions aren't a model for future Vulcan women like T'Pol of Enterprise.

After an ailing Spock must be taken to his home world by Kirk's Enterprise, T'Pring unveils a seamlessly logical trap for Spock.  Fight your Captain to the death - either kill or be killed.  Knowing whatever the outcome - whomever wins - means she'll still be basically alone on Vulcan to carry on with her lover Stonn, makes T'Pring one sexy Star Trek gal indeed - and yes, even a real bitch. 

The Women Of Star Trek

Recently, NBC broadcast a prime-time special - The Women of SNL.  It was a rebroadcast from 2010 - an hour long retrospective featuring female comic performers who've made Saturday Night Live must see TV.  Star Trek also has an NBC connection.  It premiered on the National Broadcasting Company back in 1966.  How about a special called - The Women Of Star Trek?

Star Trek Sexy Episode - The Next Generation - Justice

The Edo love to love.  It's really so simple.  They live on a planet paradise - well, mostly.  There's a catch.  They have a great and powerful, mysterious protector who loves them so much it would destroy anything which threatens them.  Poor Wesley Crusher (Wil Wheaton) gets into the mix and things turn ugly.

For the Edo, life is almost perfect.  Yet a fatherly protector always watches over them and strictly enforces the inflexible social rules.  Such is the powerful price of Edo love.

Spock's Bad Romance - Leila Kalomi - Jill Ireland

Captain Kirk wasn't the only Enterprise officer to get the girl.  First Officer Spock (Leonard Nimoy) wasn't exactly a slouch in the romance department - despite his conservative Vulcan cultural heritage and biological directive of mating once every seven years.  One of the more beautiful and loving of Spock's sweethearts was the human woman Leila Kalomi played by Jill Ireland.

In the original series episode, This Side Of Paradise, Spock reunites with Leila, but when the sparks don't fly again, she resorts to something rather tricky to rekindle their romance.  Lucky for her, the planet is home to alien spores which have an incredible effect on who they infect.  When Spock is exposed to them, all the burden of responsibilities he dutifully fulfills as a Starfleet officer suddenly vanish.  The Enterprise science officer soon surrenders to a prospect of spending his days with Leila on the idyllic world.  Of course, this doesn't sit well with his superior officer, the one and only Captain James T. Kirk.  It sets the stage for a doozy of a conflict - including one of the only bare knuckled brawls between the two pals.  With the spores influence and Spock's old flame's deception, this legendary bromance is definitely tested by Leila Kalomi.  Somewhere in space, we can hear Lady Gaga singing....

Star Trek Sexy Spotlight - Tribbles

Who gets the most action in the Star Trek universe?  Captain Kirk flirting with those green skinned Orion beauties?  Vulcan Spock in his 7 year mating cycle?  7 years?!  That's Pon Too Farr!  And no, it's not that bearded wonder Commander Riker getting busy with Troi or fully functioning Data programmed in multiple techniques.  The most sexually productive creature of them all by far is the hairy little fuzzball known as the Tribble.

In the original series episode, The Trouble With Tribbles, Dr. McCoy established the fact that the little fuzzy beasts are literally born pregnant.  Most recently, the fur balls made an appearance in the feature film, Star Trek: Into Darkness.  Tribbles are hated by Klingons, so if you want to piss one off, simply put those purring fuzzballs to good use.  As Scotty would say, "It'll be no tribble at all!"

Star Trek Spotlight - Toreth - Carolyn Seymour - Face of the Enemy

Romulan Commanders are known for supreme control over their crews and themselves.  In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, Face of the Enemy, actress Carolyn Seymour plays Toreth - a woman who must face off with Starfleet officer Troi whose undercover as a Romulan secret service agent.  Troi (Marina Sirtis) plays a kind of CIA and KGB mash-up, an agent of the sinister Tal Shiar.

Toreth has a personal grudge against the Tal Shiar - her father was executed by them for his less than mainstream political views.  Though Troi has to do her duty as a Starfleet officer, it's clear she's pained when she much clash with such a principled woman as Toreth, who under difference circumstances, may just be someone the Counselor would call fond acquaintance or even friend.

Star Trek Sexy Spotlight - Mara - Day Of The Dove

In times of crisis, some of us panic, while others are paralyzed with fear.  It would be expected that a Klingon would merely grunt or growl and fight his or her way out.  Not so for the beautiful Klingon Mara, in the classic original episode, Day of the Dove. She not only kept her head - both literally and figuratively - while those all around her were losing their own, but she made a difference.  

After a ship full of Klingons, led by Kang (Michael Ansara), are taken aboard Kirk's starship, weirdness definitely happens.  Played by the lovely actress Susan Howard, Mara is Kang's wife.  Though frightened by the prospect of being raped and tortured by the now crazed Starfleet crew, Mara bridges the gap between the fighting forces so they can focus on the real threat - the fear and stress sucking alien creature who's been plaguing the two sides all along.  Mara helps Kang to realize the energy entity is the real enemy, and to basically live up to the line, I ain't afraid of no ghost!

Star Trek Sexy Spotlight - K'Ehleyr - Suzie Plakson

Let's face it, Klingons can be just plain weird.  What of a half Human and half Klingon?  That was K'Ehleyr, and all who knew her could attest to the fact that she could be very weird indeed.  K'Ehleyr (Suzie Plakson) also had a fiery personality coupled with a dancer's grace and a lithe warrior's body.  She was the hybrid Human Klingon who displayed no affection nor real allegiance to either race, therefore, she operated in a kind of social limbo - effectively lost between two worlds.

Plakson made a real impression on fans as Worf's doomed love, but things may have turned out quite differently if the original choice to play the role had accepted  Actress Robin Curtis - Lt. Saavik - was offered the role first, but was busy with prior filming commitments.

Star Trek Sexy Spotlight - The Other Saavik - Robin Curtis

Saavik, as we originally knew her, didn't last long.  Actress Kirstie Alley (Look Who's Talking) who originated the role didn't put on the pointy ears for Star Trek III: The Search For Spock, the feature film follow-up to ST II: Wrath of Khan.  It's said financial agreements or requests from Alley's camp weren't indulged, and so a replacement was found.  Whatever the case in real life, the Saavik we got in front of the camera in director Leonard Nimoy's movie was actress Robin Curtis.

Curtis filled Alley's shoes (and ears) admirably.  She even went on to reprising the role - albeit not much more than a cameo - in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, which Nimoy also directed.  Robin Curtis couldn't seem to stray far from the Vulcan or Romulan race.  The New York actress also made a memorable appearance as a mercenary Romulan posing as a Vulcan on TV, in the The Next Generation 2 part episode, Gambit.

Hollywood Stars of Star Trek - Big, Sexy & Funny Celebrities

Hollywood stars move effortlessly through big roles in movies, TV and even appear on the Broadway stage in theater, starring in plays and musicals.  They may not be able to make the things they perform in truly better, but they certainly bring an amount of star power to brighten up the production.  Big names like Joan Collins (Dynasty), Joel Grey (Cabaret), Joe Piscopo (Saturday Night Live) and sexy Kirstie Alley (Cheers) add brilliant star power to Star Trek TV shows and feature films.

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Deep Space Nine Sexy Spotlight - Dabo Girls

Quark's bar catered to the weary space traveler by offering them a host of exotic eats, drinks and entertainment.  One of the riskier kinds of play - to the wallet anyway - was playing Dabo.  This high stakes gambling activity took away many a player's gold pressed latinum.  While playing Dabo, you are treated to the professional services of the Dabo girl - a beautiful server who encourages you to play.

Dabo girls are basically a cross between a cocktail waitress and a geisha girl.  Leeta - played by actress Chase Masterson - joined up at Quark's as a Dabo girl and ended up marrying the owner's brother, the Ferengi Rom.

Star Trek Sexy Spotlight: Janice Rand - Grace Lee Whitney

Janice Rand, played by actress Grace Lee Whitney, served aboard Captain James T. Kirk's Enterprise - NCC-1701.  She coordinated the Captain's hectic schedule, brought him his cosmic themed reports and made sure he'd always get his stimulating coffee.  Because of internal, behind the scenes TV show or network politics, Whitney's contract wasn't renewed.  Rand was never seen again until her reappearance in the feature film, Star Trek: The Motion Picture in 1979.

Rand is an accomplished artist and her work could be seen adorning her quarters on the Starship.

Rotten Tomatoes & The Star Trek Feature Films

Rotten Tomatoes rates the movies and Star Trek boasts many a theatrical entry.  With 12 feature films under its franchise belt, the somewhat obscure NBC TV show created by Gene Roddenberry and produced by Lucille Ball's Desilu back in 1966 is still flourishing today.  From the high of 2009's Star Trek from director J.J. Abrams, to the low rated Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, directed by William Shatner, the treks of Trek get rated.

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Alien Spotlight - The Horta - The Devil In The Dark - Happy Mother's Day!

During its over four decade run, Star Trek has featured many mothers.  The Borg Queen (Alice Krige) doing anything to see her collective family survive thrilled us.  Dr. Beverly Crusher (Gates McFadden) caring for her son Wesley (Wil Wheaton) impressed us.  In Voyager, there was even The Caretaker - a kind of pure energy mother.  Above all, there was a tough mother who dealt out strong defensive punishment when protecting her offspring - the Horta from The Devil In The Dark.

On Janus VI, the Horta roamed the mining tunnels and made sure nobody messed with her eggs.  The horta are silicon based life and therefore appeared and functioned quite differently from most other carbon based lifeforms.  No matter what you thought of her physique, or methods of dealing with interlopers, the horta was one tough momma!

Star Trek Sexy Spotlight - Seven of Nine - Jeri Ryan

Seven of Nine is Tertiary Adjunct of Unimatrix 01.  Well, at least she used to be.  When Captain Janeway (Kate Mulgrew) and her Voyager starship crew encountered the Borg in the Delta Quadrant, 7of9 was employed as a kind of go between to the Starfleet crew to help defeat Species 8472.  Actress Jeri Ryan (Boston Public) then joined the UPN TV show as a regular cast member.

Seven joined the starship on its journey to the Alpha Quadrant - using her enhanced capabilities and wide reaching knowledge she shared while part of the vast Borg collective. Before being just a number, Seven was a little human girl named Annika Hansen.  Her parents, intrepid scientists and explorers, brought her along on a study mission of the rampaging cybernetic race.  This led to her assimilation as a Borg drone.

Though her guarded and outright standoffish behavior made her alienate some, she eventually became an indispensable member of the Voyager crew, and made friends with many, including; Neelix, Naomi Wildman, Doc (Robert Picardo) and even engaged in romantic relations with first officer Chakotay - Robert Beltran.  Seven and Janeway clashed often, but in the end, the conflicts usually led to practical solutions to the struggles the crew faced while warping home to Earth.

Star Trek Sexy Spotlight - Dr. Beverly Crusher - Gates McFadden

Captain Jean-Luc Picard's Enterprise 1701-D was the flagship Starfleet starship of his time.  During his tenure as Enterprise Captain, Picard utilized the most advanced technology and had the most competent officers at his disposal.  Picard's decision was final - as Dr. Beverly Crusher emphatically reminded guest Lily Sloan (Alfre Woodard) as they battled the dread Borg in the feature film, Star Trek: First Contact.  But above all the others under his command, only the ginger haired Chief Medical Officer could actually question Picard's competence.

Beverly Crusher's intense sexual attraction to Jean-Luc Picard was explored throughout the show, and the Starship commander was just one of the attractive physician's many romantic suitors.  Being a mother to Wesley Crusher (Wil Wheaton) was a herculean task in and of itself, yet the 'dancing doctor' - Gates is a real life accomplished dancer - never faltered in both her professional or personal duties.

Lucille Ball - The Mother of Star Trek

Lucille Ball, beloved star of I Love Lucy and dozens of feature films, was one of Hollywood's greatest comedians.  Lucy, as adoring fans call her, was also co-founder of the Desilu studio - with husband Desi Arnaz - which produced Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek for NBC.  If Roddenberry is Starship Enterprise's founding father, Lucy is its founding mother.

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Star Trek Sexy Aliens - The Bolians

Is blue your sexy color?  Star Trek: The Next Generation gave us a new color in sexuality and love when the Emmy Award winning syndicated TV show introduced us to the aliens called Bolians.  These bald, blue beauties were some of the more distinctive looking aliens in the vast Gene Roddenberry created universe.

On Captain Picard's Enterprise, the Bolian Mr. Mot acted as a highly skilled barber for the crew.  He also loved to give tactical tips and battle strategy out to whomever would listen.  The Bolians nurture something of a free love philosophy.  They have a kind of a swinging lifestyle, as it is not uncommon for there to be a third member of a romantic union or marriage - either a co-husband or a co-wife.

Star Trek Sexy Spotlight - Klingon Female

Klingons don't fool around when it comes to fooling around.  The proud warriors of the galaxy - first seen in Gene Roddenberry's 1966 Star Trek - definitely know how to play fiercely in the bedroom.  Simply put:  Klingon females seem far more liberated when it comes to sexuality than most other humanoids.  On Star Trek: The Next Generation, this sex speculation was clearly illustrated.

 

Michael Dorn played Klingon Worf.  On the episode, Hide And Q, Will Riker (Jonathan Frakes) imbued with the godly power of Q (John DeLancie) gifted Worf with a lusty Klingon female.  Riker gave his friend a horny mate.  Worf seemed torn - even upset - but it's a clear bet to any that if Riker had gifted him the gal in private, he'd have let off some Klingon steam.

Star Trek Sexy Spotlight: Duras Sisters - Lursa & B'Etor - Gwynyth Walsh & Barbara March

Klingon sex can be a rough ride.  Take those two gals who were known collectively as the Duras sisters - Lursa (Gwynyth Walsh) and B'Etor (Barbara March).  First seen in the Next Generation episode, Redemption, these bold as brass gals left a lasting impression on fans - if not lasting a terribly long tenure in Gene Roddenberry's universe.

Lursa and B'Etor graduated to co-starring in, Star Trek: Generations (1994), the first feature film showcasing Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) and his brave Starfleet crew.  Directed by David Carson and written by Rick Berman, Brannon Braga and Ronald D. Moore, the Duras sisters enlisted the assistance of Soran (Malcom McDowall) to obtain a trilithium energy weapon to conquer the very Klingon empire itself.  When Soran orders the scheming siblings to destroy the Enterprise 1701-D, Lursa shouts - 'That is a Galaxy class Starship!  We are no match for them!' Dearest Lursa was definitely on to something, indeed.

Star Trek Sexy Spotlight - The Borg Queen (Voyager) - Susanna Thompson

The Borg Queen (Alice Krige) ruled over her drones in Star Trek: First Contact, the 2nd feature film to showcase the Next Generation cast, including:  Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner, Marina Sirtis, Levar Burton, Michael Dorn and Gates McFadden.  However, for the UPN TV show, Star Trek: Voyager, actress Susanna Thompson filled the considerably powerful latex suit vacated by Krige.

Before her stint as the Borg monarch, Thompson portrayed two characters on Star Trek: The Next Generation, and can also be seen in the Deep Space Nine episode, Rejoined - opposite Terry Farrell who played Dax, the Trill.  Thompson has had a wide ranging, high profile career in TV and has appeared on shows such as The X-Files, CSI and NYPD Blue.