Sarah Silverman - Almost A Crew Member Of Starship Voyager

Comedian Sarah Silverman as a member of Captain Janeway's crew? It almost happened.  After Silverman guested on the UPN show, producer Brannon Braga toyed with the idea of bringing the comic onto Star Trek as a full fledged member of the cast.

Read about it in my new OMNI article.

Sexy Spotlight - Hoshi Sato - Linda Park

Can an ear be considered sexy?  If that's possible, then it can be safely said Enterprise officer Hoshi Sato (Linda Park) can claim her commanding officer, Captain Jonathan Archer (Scott Bakula), found her both competent and sexy.  Archer said to her earnestly, yet colorfully, "I need someone with your ear."  Indeed, as communications officer aboard the first warp powered United Earth starship Enterprise, Lt. Commander Sato was an expert listener, and she helped her brave crew communicate with all manner of lifeforms.

Sato was such a gifted linguist and such an accomplished professional, her work would lead to the standard Starfleet language translation matrix - or in the more common usage term, the linguacode.

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.