Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Spotlight - Ezri Dax - Nicole de Boer

When your commanding officer - and one time best friend in another 'life', Captain Sisko - sums you up like this, "She's a Dax. Sometimes they don't think; they just do." - you know your life is one big roller coaster ride.  For Ezri Dax (Nicole de Boer), the more accurate way to sum up her life would be to go plural - as in multiple lives.  As a Trill, she's a joined species - a host and a symbiotic lifeform.

After Terry Farrell, who originated the role of Lt. Dax on Deep Space Nine left the series, Nicole de Boer was brought in to replace her in the seventh and final season of the syndicated show.  And since Trill sort of do the old body swap as a rule anyway, viewers weren't left as shell shocked as when some TV shows plug in a new performer swapped for an old.

Star Trek Sexy Spotlight - The USS Defiant

Star Trek sex and sexy means beautiful starfleet officers, handsome starship commanders or exotic, other worldly aliens.  But it also can mean things other than aliens or humanoids.  Some of the most sexy aspects of Star Trek are the incredible hardware and vehicles of the future.  On Deep Space Nine, a little ship called the USS Defiant was showcased as one of the most alluring of them all.

Co-designed by Benjamin Sisko and created to answer the dread Borg threat after the devastating encounter at Wolf 359 (The Best of Both Worlds), this tough, little ship could kick a lot of Borg butt and then some.  And the Defiant always looked good doing it.  Instead of going against the Borg, it was utilized very effectively against the Jem H'adar in the fight against The Dominion.