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Jennifer Garner, Alias.

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Jeri Ryan is *a* Borg chick.

Alice Krige is *THE* Borg chick (both in terms of her role — the Queen — and in terms of her delicate, almost fragile, beauty)! And when you check out her acting credentials, she’s clearly an outstanding actress.

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As long as you’re appending to the list, there’s still Firefly/Serenity’s Summer Glau (River).

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I’m surprised no one has mentioned Jodie Foster through her role in Contact. I hear she’s very smart and is kinda introverted herself. But maybe she appeals more to bookish intellectuals than sci-fi and TV franchise fandom geeks. I guess you’d have to define “geek.”

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From Firefly/Serenity I would say Jewel Staite (Kaylee) would be the preferred geek actress. She is afterall an engineer. Pauley Perrette, who plays Abby on the TV show NCIS, is also quite the cute goth geek.

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Oh. c’mon! First of all, you’ve GOT to start with the greatest of geek loves, Janeanne Garafalo, esp. since she’s smart in RL along with onscreen. Like many, I succumbed to a delusional affection for Sarah Michelle Gellar before realizing the Hannigan, hem, magick.
Let’s face it, everybody on Firefly is real purty though Gana Torres and Summer Glau both have sexy quotients requiring scientific notation.
Then there’s Jennifer Jason Leigh, even before her turn in Cronenbergland. Yeah, Portman is sweet as country pie but she’s what, nineteen? Too young for me.
Gotta have the canonical Xena ref though I know a lot more geeks of both sexes who far prefer Gabrielle.
Many of us carried a torch for years for Michelle Meyrink, who was not only magnetic and fascinating as Jordan in Real Genius, but also got her chops in Revenge of the Nerds and Valley Girl.
Many of us from the old days thought that Carrie Fischer was cute and all but that Molly Ringwald was flat out stunning in that unearthly, china doll way that entrances so many hamhanded geeks. Of course Fischer has since roared back into the lead with her novels and cameos that prove her to actually BE a hyperverbal, neurotic, squirmy, girly maniac of the sort that would utterly have many a geek babbling in desire.
Moving *way* past neurotic we get Fairuza Balk, who makes psychotic look so good in The Craft. Mmmmm; spicy. Christina Ricci has been rocking the goth/rebel thing to great enthusiasm since her Addams Family days. And Sean Young has never been as compelling again as she was in Blade Runner but for that brief span you HAD to watch.
Winona Ryder is yet another not-so-nice Jewish girl with a huge geek following, though I’ll never forgive whomever cast her in Aliens, The Final Embarassment. Far more appealing are Rachel Weisz from the Mummy series as well as being the daughter of a successful inventor and Getchen Moll from The Thirteenth Floor.
If we’re talking fiction, then obviously the queen is Miranda of Userfriendly. Monica of Wapsisquare and Monique of Sinfest bracket the range of curvy cuties, though many would claim precedence for one of the pandering bimbos of After Y2K.
But if we’re talking unstoppable, smart, tough, increasingly goth, and HAWT women in deeply geeky comics, nobody comes close to Pricess Mari in the original Micronauts.
Anime? Whatever. But the women of Girl Genius provide a wide range of distaff delights. And, let’s admit it, millions out there harbor impure thoughts about a somehow grownup Emily The Strange.
Oddly enough, quite a few of my geeky female friends have talked about fantasizing being Bond Girls and, of course, the Buffy fantasies are everywhere.
In other words, the Geek Fantasy Girl pantheon is vast and growing. Now if only more geeks would start talking to actual human women in the same room with them.
-Rustin

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I think Mira Sorvino probably belongs in a proper “object of geek adoration” list. She has the requisite looks as well as good academic credentials (Harvard degree in Asian studies, fluent in Mandarin). Her turn as Woody Allen’s muse for a film also makes her worthy.

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