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Your First Sci-Fi Crush

By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under Comment Diversions | Comments (147)



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A couple of weeks ago, we ran a Seriously Random List on the Five Sexiest Aliens of All Time, which inspired this suggestion from Kiddo: What was your first sci-fi (or science-fiction) crush?

I honestly really didn’t know that a lot of folks had sci-fi crushes, but if there’s anyplace that might, it’s on Pajiba.Most of you seem like genre people, but I wonder which genre is the most popular?

It’s hard to peg you folks, collectively. Which is why, in addition to answering the diversion question, I’d also like to throw in this poll question:










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Comments

One word...Uhura.

Posted by: Dano at August 26, 2009 9:06 PM

i was in love with E.T.'s henry thomas when i was a kid. "elllllliottttttt."

Posted by: kelley at August 26, 2009 9:11 PM

Im partial to mara jade. I always had a penchant for strong women.

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Posted by: Pandemic at August 26, 2009 9:13 PM

Jean Luc-Picard and Riker on the side.

Posted by: Cindy at August 26, 2009 9:15 PM

Wesley Crusher.


Shut up!

Posted by: MelBivDevoe at August 26, 2009 9:20 PM

R U kidding?

My very first was the fellow right in your picture up there, James Tiberius Kirk.
Followed by:
Doctor Who (Tom Baker edition)
Ham Tyler from the original V
Jean-Luc Picard
Crichton from Farscape
and
Mal "Oh God Do Me Right Here, In Front of My Husband, Even" Reynolds

Posted by: Jerce at August 26, 2009 9:20 PM

Sean Young in Blade Runner...

mmmm

Posted by: Colin at August 26, 2009 9:20 PM

Jonathan Brandis from seaQuest. I swore I was going to marry him. Thinking about him still makes me sad.

Posted by: wooky at August 26, 2009 9:21 PM

Wesley Crusher in TNG! I fancied Wil Wheaton for yearssssssss, it was the mole combined with the lankiness that did it.

Posted by: Ana at August 26, 2009 9:21 PM

Vicky Vale.

Posted by: coryo at August 26, 2009 9:22 PM

Wesley Crusher! I had many innapropriate dreams about that boy in my fifteenth year

Posted by: Jane at August 26, 2009 9:25 PM

Assuming this is includes comic books, it was probably Jessica Drew, the original Spider Woman. I remember seeing a panel of her climbing up a wall in that tight red costume. An ass man was born that day.

Posted by: Tracer Bullet at August 26, 2009 9:30 PM

Wesley on Star Trek. Apparently people found him annoying, but I was young enough to like him. I'm still fond of Will Wheaton because of it. That and he's awesome.

Posted by: Aubsbobs at August 26, 2009 9:30 PM

Can I point out how the placement of this poll basically ensures its inaccuracy? The people drawn to this SCI-FI comment diversion are going to tend toward the Sci-Fi genre.

Anyways, it'd probably be Tennant-Who for me. I've never watched too much sci-fi.

Posted by: SaBrina at August 26, 2009 9:30 PM

Wesley Crusher on Star Trek: TNG! I'm so happy that I'm not alone. Good times. MelBivDevoe and Ana, I'm with you.

Yay, for this comment diversion!

Posted by: Kiddo at August 26, 2009 9:34 PM

My first crush was on Agent Fugi of the Science Patrol from the original Ultraman series. I've had a thing for Japanese women ever since.

Posted by: Huckleberry at August 26, 2009 9:37 PM

I never really was into science fiction as a wee tot, it was my adolescent years in which I became attracted to different types of sci-fi. Though I would not consider myself a sci-fi buff, I would like to say that I've taken a liking to Captain Jack from Doctor Who/Torchwood.
First crush? Hard, hard question. I really do not know the answer!

Posted by: Kamikaze Feminist at August 26, 2009 9:37 PM

Holy coincidence, I just admitted to this one on a fellow 'Jiban's facebook page not half an hour ago.

Chekov, from the original Star Trek. To this day, I love me a nice Russian accent.

Posted by: meaux at August 26, 2009 9:37 PM

The Hero of Canton, the man they call Jayne. Ooh, what I wouldn't do to that man.

I'll be in my bunk.

Posted by: ZoBla at August 26, 2009 9:38 PM

Dianna Troi
mmhm

I'd let her psycho analyze me any day.

And maybe a little Dr. Crusher on the side, you know in that tie me up and spank me kind of way...

Posted by: Iron Lung at August 26, 2009 9:39 PM

um...Chekov actually. Followed by Dr. Bashir (DS9) and, of course, Fox Mulder. mmmm, Mulder.

Posted by: s. pisaster at August 26, 2009 9:39 PM

Dr. McCoy, no contest.

Posted by: sistercoyote at August 26, 2009 9:42 PM

Oh geez, if it wasn't for Mr. Crusher snagging my first crush back in the day it would certainly have been Fox Mulder.

Posted by: Kiddo at August 26, 2009 9:42 PM

Fox Mulder.

Posted by: Kate at August 26, 2009 9:43 PM

just to be clear, by "followed by" I mean chronologically. Mulder, of course, has the top spot in my heart.

Posted by: s. pisaster at August 26, 2009 9:47 PM

The first was Data from Star Trek: TNG, followed by Jonathan Brandis (makes me sad too, wooky) from SeaQuest and finally Malcolm Reynolds. Since Data's too old now and Jonathon Brandis is dead, I guess I'll have to settle for Mal.

Except, there is now (David Tennant's) Dr. Who...

Mmmm...David/Mal sandwich. And I could always do with a little Captain Jack...

I'll be in my room.

Posted by: leuce7 at August 26, 2009 9:48 PM

As a little boy, I wanted to be Superman (comics), Batman (Adam West TV version), and Captain Kirk all rolled into one.

It, um, it never really worked out the way I planned at age five.

So yeah, I DO remember my first comics (Action and Detective respectively) and staying up late to watch "Star Trek" on KTUL.

Oh and sex? Probably Kirk's drill thrall Shanah and/or the "Alice" series of android's from Mudd's planet. Or Princess Leia. Mebbe Linda Carter's Wonder Woman too.

Gawd I'm such a nerd.

Posted by: Green Lantern at August 26, 2009 9:48 PM

My one and only:

Han Solo.

I can't believe no one's mentioned him. The hell?

Posted by: figgy at August 26, 2009 9:51 PM

Haha so when I was little I didn't get that Harrison Ford was the sexy one and Mark Hamill the fucking annoying one. I was gaga over him when I was little that blond hair and that irritating voice. But then I grew into my sexuality and of course fell for Mr. Ford.

Posted by: E-money at August 26, 2009 9:52 PM

Han Solo. I was only seven when I saw Star Wars for the first time and I knew immediately that I would marry Han Solo.

Forget whiney-ass Luke Skywalker. I was all about the bad boys - even at a young age.

Posted by: Kelly at August 26, 2009 9:53 PM

Though I often rail that it is not technically sci-fi, there can be only one answer to this question. It's my earliest memory and my first experience at the movies at the age of 2, and I had not just her action figure but an actual doll of her.

Princess Leia Organa.

Posted by: DarthCorleone at August 26, 2009 9:55 PM

It was surprisingly difficult to choose between 'Comic Book Geeks' and 'Hipster Douchebags'. I like to think I have a foot in both camps.

Posted by: Daniel Hall at August 26, 2009 9:55 PM

Woah... Figgy how weird is that? We both posted about our love for Han at the same time!

Don't worry E-Money, we all make mistakes. You corrected yours - that's all that matters!

Posted by: Kelly at August 26, 2009 9:55 PM

SaBrina >> Good point about biasing the survey. I have a little film nerd and a little hipster douchebag in me, but I have to choose sci-fi if I can only have one.

Posted by: DarthCorleone at August 26, 2009 9:57 PM

I'd have to say Erin Grey in Buck Rogers. Damn, that woman was fine!

Posted by: ed newman at August 26, 2009 9:58 PM

Awesome. Finally someone with good taste!

Bwah.

Posted by: figgy at August 26, 2009 10:00 PM

Of course, as it stands, I've never had a sex dream about Princess Leia. I did have a sex dream about Dana Scully.

Posted by: DarthCorleone at August 26, 2009 10:01 PM

Scully

Posted by: sailboat at August 26, 2009 10:05 PM

Jean Luc-Picard. Which is why I now have a rule about not dating anyone 10 year older than me. I tried to live out my Jean Luc-Picard fantasy in real life and didn't turn out so well.

Of course I also liked Jonathan Brandis. But if I had to choose between the two the captain always wins.

Posted by: DoubleH at August 26, 2009 10:05 PM

Yeah, I gotta agree with the people going for Scully. Gillian Anderson still makes me tingle.

Posted by: Deistbrawler at August 26, 2009 10:08 PM

Before there ever was a Seven of Nine, there was Deanna Troi.

Posted by: branded at August 26, 2009 10:09 PM

Leonard Nimoy -- jeeze no one listed him yet. He was just so darned . . . analytical.

I will also cop to a huge crush on David McCallum in Man from U.N.C.L.E. And then there was Billy Boles who was the first boy to ever beat me in a foot race. And now I think I've said too much...

Posted by: rottenkitty at August 26, 2009 10:09 PM

I have no idea how my parents let it happen, but I remember seeing Earth Girls Are Easy at a rather young and impressionable age, and there my crush on Jeff Goldblum was born. My sci-fi crush on him has only grown since then, like a little nebbish caterpillar into an unbelievably tall, stuttery butterfly.

Posted by: foursweatervests at August 26, 2009 10:17 PM

Oh, pisaster, I had a crush on Dr. Bashir too. Yummy. Was also rather fond of Harry Kim from Voyager (though that was more of a platonic crush).

Posted by: meaux at August 26, 2009 10:18 PM

my first boyfriend was my 6 million dollar man doll.

i was 6.

we broke up when i was 17 and a half.

Posted by: gp at August 26, 2009 10:20 PM

She-Hulk. Need I say more?

Posted by: Corey W. at August 26, 2009 10:21 PM

What, no Power Rangers? Sheesh, I couldn't have been the only one digging Jason (the original, might morphin' Red, yo) and his baggy red pants and punkass face. Had no idea why the other girls in my class were all about Tommy the green and that stupid pony tail.

Posted by: Annie UhOh at August 26, 2009 10:21 PM

Picard. Watching Next Generation made me a woman when I was 9. I am 26 and am still kind of in love with him.

Posted by: Haystacks at August 26, 2009 10:23 PM

-Earliest: Romana I (Tom Baker era Dr Who)
Followed by, in no particular order
Kaylee, Inara...dammit, the ladies of Firefly in general
Dana Scully

Posted by: RandyPanTheGoatboy at August 26, 2009 10:24 PM

Leuce, my first love was Data too! I worked in an Ace Hardware when I was 15, and I flirted madly with a local guy that was Brent Spiner's twin every time he came in. (Of course, as he was at least twice my age, I think it terrified him.)


Posted by: Imiachra at August 26, 2009 10:24 PM

I'm not that old, so Dr. Beckett from Stargate Atlantis was my first sci-fi crush. That man had the most adorable accent on the planet, as far as I was concerned. When he had a cameo in Star Trek I literally bounced up and down in the theater with excitement. Oh yeah, and I'm naming my firstborn child after him (and the pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, but mostly him.)

And foursweatervests, you just made my night with that spot-on description of Jeff Goldblum. I watched Jurassic Park and Independence Day simply to watch the scenes he was in. I will always think of butterflies whenever I think of him from now on.

Posted by: amanda at August 26, 2009 10:29 PM

Does "All of the Above except the last one" count as an official answer? Because that's mine.

Posted by: ChristianH at August 26, 2009 10:40 PM

She-Hulk is a fine choice. I nearly went with Gamora, the Most Dangerous Woman in the Universe. I guess I've got a thing for green women.

Posted by: Tracer Bullet at August 26, 2009 10:40 PM

Jean-Luc Picard. Life long affinity for bald men with British accents = check and check.

Posted by: ladydi at August 26, 2009 10:42 PM

I know this only BARELY qualifies as Sci-Fi, but I'm going with Alex Mack from The Secret World of Alex Mack. She was hot and just slightly older than I was during the time the show was airing.

Posted by: alphawhiskey at August 26, 2009 10:44 PM

Heehee, Annie Uh Oh. I always thought the Blue Ranger was the cutest with his glasses and nerdosity. I hated that they all paid more attention to the Green Ranger. He wasn't all that.

Posted by: figgy at August 26, 2009 10:44 PM

Capt. James T. Kirk. Honor, duty, and scissor kicks, all the way.

Posted by: Chickaboom at August 26, 2009 11:02 PM

She's been mentioned several times but I can't help stating my unequivocal love for Special Agent Dana Scully.

Posted by: Spender at August 26, 2009 11:04 PM

Erin Gray.

Posted by: will at August 26, 2009 11:10 PM

Hahaha oooh boy. Han Solo. Star Wars was my bedtime story till I was seven and we got the trilogy on VHS. I was twelve when The Phantom Menace was released and I knew then - there was only one trilogy and it started at number four. Han effing Solo. And he shot first.

Posted by: Victoria at August 26, 2009 11:10 PM

Tasha Yar. Hot, and could kick the shit out of Deanna Troi any day. Did you people not see the episode where she does Data? Good God that was hot!

Posted by: Jack Random at August 26, 2009 11:23 PM

Um... it's recent, but I guess I'll have to go with Ianto Jones. He wears a suit extremely well.

Posted by: whatBENwatches at August 26, 2009 11:28 PM

Michael Biehn in Aliens. Michael Biehn in The Terminator. Michael Biehn in The Abyss.

Michael Biehn ruled the 80's... and my heart.

Also, he's a super underrated actor. And can rock a five o'clock shadow like no other!

Posted by: Sarah at August 26, 2009 11:28 PM

I feel so much better about my unhealthy lust for Jeff Goldblum knowing other Pajibans love him too! And foursweatervests, I ADORE your name!

Posted by: wooky at August 26, 2009 11:39 PM

Also Han Solo. Always did like the bad boy with a heart of gold under his gruff exterior.

Also, going by that poll, turns out I AM a hipster douchebag! Damn!

Posted by: Anna von Beaverplatz at August 26, 2009 11:48 PM

Okay, where are all the other horror lovers? There have to be more than 3 gorehounds on Pajiba. Come on! Dustin even specified Clive Barker type.

Posted by: s. pisaster at August 26, 2009 11:50 PM

Sarah,

But not Michael Biehn in The Insatiable, I hope.

Posted by: Jiffyzen at August 26, 2009 11:52 PM

Kellie Martin's character on SeaQuest. She doesn't know this, but we're married. It's true.

Also, I am so glad that I get to be the first to say her name, but Chiana. Holy, holy, holy fuck do I want Chiana. I am so, so glad that Gigi Edgley took dirty pictures. Thank you, Gigi.

Posted by: JakesAlterEgo at August 26, 2009 11:56 PM

he *almost* won me over with the clive barker example.
and while i *live* my sweet barkery-boo, and i do love the horror, splatter is a personal issue with me.
my comic book nerdity, on the other hand, shines through, and even the everymen notice the dorkitude. it is The Face.

Posted by: gp at August 26, 2009 11:57 PM

I would say Luke Skywalker was my first crush but as I grew a bit older and "wiser" (I was all of six years old when I saw Empire), I knew that Han Solo was the real deal. I'm a sucker for the slightly pompous, sarcastic guy every time.

By the way, I think the poll results probably aren't a true indicator of the Pajiba population since the Sci-Fi title may have kept some people who put themselves into other "genres" from participating. Just sayin'. . .

Posted by: prairiegirl at August 26, 2009 11:59 PM

Charlotte Lew in Eddie Murphy's the Golden Child, though I know that counts more as Fantasy rather than Sci Fi.

So so so hot and the inspiration behind all of my teenage hounddogging. I was a sucker for dimples and that kind of shapeliness for years.

Also, I was right rowdy for Karen Allen for awhile.

Posted by: Jackseppelin at August 27, 2009 12:05 AM

Scully. End of.

Posted by: Sara at August 27, 2009 12:08 AM

I second The Secret World of Alex Mack. I remember in the first episode where she melts for the first time and reforms behind a bunch of boxes without her clothes.
Needless to say I caught every episode of the show after that...

Posted by: Kurdt at August 27, 2009 12:10 AM

Gimme a break, I'm too damn old to remember crap like that. I'm lucky I remember what I had for breakfast ... did I have breakfast? Who am I?

Oh yeah ... I'm a Sci-Fi geek but it was a toss-up with hipster douchebag. I like a lot of movies, it's hard to label myself, but the last two movies I've seen as "D9" and "Moon," so ...

Posted by: , (the commenter formerly known as bucdaddy) at August 27, 2009 12:11 AM

You can keep your JT Kirk...I had a serious crush on Mr. Spock. Calm, cool, logical...dark and mysterious.

Posted by: Be Adequite! at August 27, 2009 12:16 AM

Kirk was hot and didn't mind giving up a few red shirts (and his pants) to his overall, and usually somewhat dillusional plans that surprisingly worked-out in the end, but my first real tummy tingling crush that touched on the sexual and not just on a Davy Jones ("Aawww he's so cute in a totally non-threatening way") was on Starbuck (Dirk Benedict) in the original Battlestar Gallactica. It all had a tragic end when I say the movie Sssssss.

Posted by: Jiffyzen at August 27, 2009 12:19 AM

I'd have to guess my first crush would have been be Kristie Alley in Wrath of Khan. Partially because of the edited sex scene in the movie novel. Total bunk material for a young introverted geek.

Shuddup, it was before Cheers and all the other crapola in her personal life.

But considering my penchant for redheads, a sci fi red has to be in my adolescent memory somewhere . . bog if I know whom it was now.

Posted by: idiosynchronic at August 27, 2009 12:26 AM

Pffffft....

Take your comment diversion to King Tut, asshole.

*this will be BarbadoSlim's stock response from this moment on*

Any complaints can be e-mailed to: www.tellittokingtutasshole.com

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at August 27, 2009 12:26 AM

Yup, I little wine/whine and I can't spell for crap. Yup, I wanted "delusional" not "dillusional" and "saw" not "say". Darn. I better go to bed. If I have another glass maybe I Dirk/Kirk will join me...

Posted by: Jiffyzen at August 27, 2009 12:27 AM

Clarissa.

What? She could stop time and rearrange shit, no?

Posted by: grendel at August 27, 2009 12:31 AM

She's not really "Sci-Fi," but the first one who I wanted bad on a consistent basis was Buffy the Vampire Slayer, there isn't a woman out there sexier.

At night, I dream of us together, murderously rampaging all things Twilight.

Posted by: George at August 27, 2009 12:31 AM

my first was probably luke skywalker. i too also loved (with pictures on my wall!!) dirk benedict/starbuck. i also fell real hard for the michael keaton/batman.

Posted by: maxpurr9 at August 27, 2009 12:32 AM

Victoria >> Saying that Han Solo fired "first" implies that Greedo fired at all. He didn't. :- )

Posted by: DarthCorleone at August 27, 2009 12:36 AM

Victoria >> Saying that Han Solo fired "first" implies that Greedo fired at all. He didn't. :- )

Posted by: DarthCorleone at August 27, 2009 12:36 AM

----------------------------------------------

I have you to thank, sir for establishing what SHOULD have been obvious since 19 motherfuckin' 77.

Not only did Greedo fail to fire, he was murdered IN. COLD. BLOOD. Solo, FTW.

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at August 27, 2009 12:42 AM

When I met Fox Mulder, I became a Woman.

Posted by: Cruise at August 27, 2009 12:55 AM

Bit of a latecomer to the SciFi love - far as i can remember, my first crush would have to be 5th element - LeeLoo.

Also since the thread seems to have diverted a bit, honorary mentions from BSG:

Number 6 AND Kara Thrace. (Greed is ok right?)

XD

Posted by: StepDown at August 27, 2009 1:11 AM

Number 6 AND Kara Thrace. (Greed is ok right?)

XD

Posted by: StepDown at August 27, 2009 1:11 AM

----------------------------------------------

You DO know that Starbuck is a sweaty, stinky doode, right? RIGHT?


Anyway, you like "kara" you like "the cock."

It's been established.

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at August 27, 2009 1:34 AM

Dick Grayson/Nightwing.
That is all.

Posted by: ceejeemcbeegee at August 27, 2009 1:40 AM

First was for sure Next Gen's Jean-Luc Picard, this was followed by briefly by Dr. Sam Becket of Quantum Leap, before my aunt pirated a copy of Star Wars Episode 4 for my daddy and then unconditionally (unless good old Jonathan Taylor Thomas came knocking to propose to my seven year old self, of course) my love went to Luke Skywalker because Han Solo was all ready taken. = ) We watched way too much television when I was young. . .

Posted by: Zippy at August 27, 2009 1:51 AM

Erin Grey from "Buck Rogers" was my first Sci-Fi crush.

Mathilda May from "Lifeforce" was my first awakening.

Posted by: ShinyKatesShineRag at August 27, 2009 2:01 AM

"Ahhh, Jean-Luc..."

International coffee or Intergallactic lover?

Posted by: Iwantsprinkles at August 27, 2009 2:05 AM

no way, sci fi gets the most votes on a page about sci fi crushes

Mathilda May is a good one
Alex Mack fans are pedos

Posted by: nonsensepoems at August 27, 2009 2:11 AM

Brendan Fehr's character, Michael, on "Roswell."

Yeah, a fucking WB show, I was in middle school, get over it.

Posted by: DawnDraper at August 27, 2009 2:11 AM

Fox Mulder was my crush and, I'm embarrassed to say, I had a thing for Dean Cain, but only as Clark Kent. Something about the glasses.... (That show was definitely one of those ones that should be kept for adolescent memory. Rewatching as an adult leaves you wondering if you were maybe a little brain damaged when you were a teenager.)

I also had a secret love for Jonathan Brandis. Secret, because I was friends with that kind of teenage girl at the time. She would have shanked me to prove that she loved him more, and the crush just wasn't worth sacrificing a kidney.

Years later, when I told another friend about his death, she immediately said 'Oh, maybe that was because he got that letter I sent him, telling him I'd kill myself if he didn't respond'.

Help me out here: am I the only female who DIDN'T go completely fucking insane during puberty?

Posted by: ScienceGeek at August 27, 2009 2:13 AM

Suck dick. I'm drunk.

My first sci-fi crush was Blink, Age of Apocalypse style. Yeah, how's that for fucking original and obscure? Suck dick alright.

Posted by: Brian at August 27, 2009 2:47 AM

figgy, Kelly, Victoria, Prairigirl, and any non-posting lurkers out there, I'm completely with you for Han Solo as my first and category-defining Sci-Fi crush.

We love him because he's a scoundrel; there aren't enough scoundrels in our lives... am I right?!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfKOS1x3IZs

Han Solo: the original Captain Tightpants.

Posted by: Neon at August 27, 2009 2:53 AM

Since my first sci-fi crushes were in the 70's (shock! horror!), I have to say Steve Austin and Luke Skywalker (because like someone else above, I had not yet cottoned on to the fact that the bad boy is infinitely more appealing than the kid who just wants to whoot womp rats). But also anime Jason from G-Force: Battle of the Planets.

Geek out.

Posted by: nipsy at August 27, 2009 3:02 AM

Shoot! that should have been...

Posted by: nipsy at August 27, 2009 3:11 AM

Jaime Sommers.

Posted by: Rykker at August 27, 2009 4:06 AM

For the purposes of the poll, I'm more of a fantasy girl but I choose sci-fi. First crush would have to be Oz from Buffy, and I'm in complete agreement with the above poster who said Michael from Roswell. Sorry, those were my coming of age years.

Posted by: erin at August 27, 2009 4:09 AM

Ripley from Aliens. Sex dreams involving the big mechanical exoskeleton from the climax. No one else comes close.

Posted by: captaino at August 27, 2009 4:55 AM

I assume cartoon wise was Galaxy Express, no surprise to why I'm so depressed all the time now, that is not a cartoon a 6 years old should obsess about! though if I have to go even back apparently when I was oly 6 months old I used to wake up to the opening credits of Doraemon, the space cat, I mean I wasn't even old enough to hold up my own head!

Posted by: rio at August 27, 2009 6:26 AM

Blink, AoA is definitely the hottest purple-skinned comic chick out there.
Green-skinned does go to Gamora, as stated earlier. She-Hulk a close second.
Pale-face goes to the Black Cat. Damn.

Posted by: grendel at August 27, 2009 6:46 AM

Pamela Hensley.
Princess Ardala.
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century.

I was ten, and she was a Draconian Princess in a fuzzy white headdress with glittery inverted horns with bangles--we fell in love instantly.

Posted by: gforcetwo at August 27, 2009 7:10 AM

I agree about the poll. Maybe it should be a post all on its own? That way you can get a better idea of just who the hell we are. I myself picked Sci-Fi Geek but my guess? We're at least 50% hipster douchebag.

Posted by: Kiddo at August 27, 2009 7:23 AM

From memory it was Riker from TNG. I think I was probably 8 or so at the time...I started my habit of crushes on fictional characters at a young age. It's probably why I'm single...

Posted by: redfeathers at August 27, 2009 7:48 AM

Erin Grey on Buck Rogers was hot to trot. I even watched Silver Spoons because of her. Discovering Jason Bateman's genius was a side benefit.

As for all you Wil Wheaton lovers, he looks like a queef decided to get up and walk around. Wanting to bone him is some demented shit.

Posted by: Kballs at August 27, 2009 8:05 AM

Erin Grey (Wilma) on Buck Rogers. Also the hot telepath on "Space: 1999". And Jane Badler (Diana) on "V".

As I wrote about Erin Grey I just noticed Kballs beat me to it. Well played, sir.

I'm late to all Pajiba articles these days due to you freaking lawyers, or at least your kindred spirits. Yep, day 3 of jury duty starts in 30 minutes. Kind of interesting but DAMN my hand hurts from taking all those notes. Also, the jury has been asking more questions than the lawyers. Then the lawyers re-direct again after the witness answers our questions. Collectively, we are finding this amusing and think we could handle the cross examinations much more efficiently.

Carry on.

Posted by: TylerDFC at August 27, 2009 8:12 AM

Can now count? Because I'm having this weird thing going on in which I'm developing crushes on actors when they were young. They might be 80 now, they might be dead now, but when I see them in their prime, all I can think about is licking them all over.

Except Walter Matthau. I'm immune to him, physically.

But Priceline dude up there? Mr. Snuggie loves to play the old Star Trek episodes to fall asleep to (SERIOUS geeks in this house) and damn if I don't stare and drool a lot. Especially in those episodes in which Captain Kirk's shirt comes off or he has to make out with a scary hot alien woman with fahreeky makeup.

Excuse me, it's too early for talk like this.

Posted by: Snuggiepants the Deathbringer at August 27, 2009 8:17 AM

Alex Mack fans are pedos

Posted by: nonsensepoems at August 27, 2009 2:11 AM

I was 7 at the time! Cut me some slack!

Posted by: alphawhiskey at August 27, 2009 8:42 AM

I can’t answer the poll question. I don’t fit into any one category. The only thing I can say definitively is that I am not a Film School Nerd. Otherwise I’m a little of everything, easy on the Clive Barker, though. I love to read that stuff, cannot watch it.

My first Sci-Fi crush would have to be Jean Luc Picard. Mature, razor bald, British – check, check and check.

Posted by: Eyvi at August 27, 2009 8:42 AM

I was infatuated with Tom Corbett, Space Cadet.
(Who wants to guess my age?)

Posted by: Arkansan at August 27, 2009 8:43 AM

Picard got me first with the voice, followed swiftly by Data. It's embarrassing now, but after I went to a Trek convention (my first and only) because Spiner was attending, and spent two lovely hours listening to this charming, hilarious guy talk, I went home and sobbed because I felt sure my life was all downhill from there.

Also had a thing for Mulder, Krycek, and Skinner. Together, separate, with each other, whatever.

Oh, and Gul Dukat from DS9--but ONLY in his makeup.

Posted by: DeadBessie at August 27, 2009 8:46 AM

It was Mr. Spock all the way for me. I was 4 or 5. He looked like my dad...................time for more therapy.

Posted by: dawn at August 27, 2009 9:00 AM

I am old

Yvette Mimieux from The Time Machine

Jane Fonda (before she betrayed our soldiers) in Barbarella

Raquel Welch in 1,000,000 B.C.

Posted by: Doc P at August 27, 2009 9:35 AM

Since we're apparently including comic book characters, I'd have to go with Rachel Summers, circa Uncanny X-Men #200 as my first.

Soon after, though, Illyana Rasputin became the most intense crush of my twelve-year-old self. I still have a super-cool poster of her.

Posted by: Todd at August 27, 2009 9:58 AM

Another vote for Han Solo. Fancied him something rotten when I was a young pup...still do actually. Rawr.

Posted by: Kittypants at August 27, 2009 10:09 AM

There have been oh so many over the years (with the most recent being Rodney McKay) but the very first was Data. From the ages of 10 to perhaps 16 it was all about Data. Sweet, sweet Data. Mmmmmm.... Data. You know the episode where he gets a girlfriend and after they kiss she asks him what he's thinking and he says he's thinking about making a new cat food suplement for Spot? Yeah... the idea of cat food is still sort of erotic for me. Which I guess explains why District 9 turned me on so much.

Posted by: Nique at August 27, 2009 10:19 AM

Technically it was Riker, but I was really too young to know why, I think I liked his beard. But for real teenage hormonal lust, it was Fox Mulder all the way.

Posted by: MG at August 27, 2009 10:22 AM

The Sigourney Weaver double whammy of Ellen Ripley and Dana Barrett. I'm pleased to say she still looks pretty beautiful, and she's still very much a SciFi crush. (Especially after Galaxy Quest.)

Posted by: Doctor Controversy at August 27, 2009 10:25 AM

I don't think this counts, but I was rabidly obsessed with the Green Ranger from the Power Rangers. Don't act like you don't know what I'm talking about.

Posted by: AM at August 27, 2009 10:44 AM

Gah! Late to the party. Well, I didn't appreciate Han Solo until I was older, so that made Luke Skywalker my first Sci Fi crush.

I mean, sure he wasn't hot like Han, but he was closer to my age, therefore making him both more accessible and relatable. AND! He was tormented and mystical and stuff! When I was a kid, I sure dug tormented and mystical and stuff.

(On that note: did anyone else think Jesus was kind of hot, or was that just me?)

Posted by: ShinyKate at August 27, 2009 10:58 AM

It's a tie between Fox Mulder and Spader's Daniel Jackson; not many of the boys in my life were geeky, so the fact that these two were huge geeks in their own way was (oh hell, is) really sexy.

Posted by: LowSlash at August 27, 2009 11:15 AM

I had a serious crush on Data when I was little. Even saw the crappy TNG movie just to see him.

I also thought Billy from Power Rangers was hot. Apparently I had a thing for nerds because Daniel Jackson (both versions) definitely kept me in my bunk years later. When Michael Shanks left SG1, I stopped watching.

I wanted to be friends with Alex Mack. She was so "girl next door" with her flannel shirts and hat.

Posted by: Brie at August 27, 2009 11:24 AM

I am right there with the Blue Ranger love and all the Wil Wheaton fans. I must have watched Stand By Me a thousand times in my youth (and just scored a copy from Target for 5 bucks). I know plenty of gals had the hots for Riker but he always looked like the kind of guy who'd put Rohypnol in your drink to me. Picard was wayyy to old for my pre-pubescent self, and Data I loved in a platonic way because...he's a robot!

However, my REAL first sci-fi crush from the tender age of four is Kyle Reese in Terminator. I still think he's smokin', and nothing says love like teaching a girl to build pipe bombs! I even like his "younger self", Anton Yelchin. So gawky, delicious!

Posted by: TryScience at August 27, 2009 11:42 AM

The green chick from Star Trek TOS....I always wondered what color her nipples were...mmmmm

Posted by: jotthedot at August 27, 2009 11:47 AM

Jenny Agutter in Logan's Run.
Yum yum yum

Posted by: Odnon at August 27, 2009 11:47 AM

OOOooooo!! The Green Chick!
Definitely!

Posted by: Odnon at August 27, 2009 11:54 AM

Odnon Seconded. But not the guy.

Posted by: Snuggiepants the Deathbringer at August 27, 2009 12:18 PM

Mr. Spock. i was totally in love with him. that eyebrow thing drove me wild! when i met Leonard Nimoy a few years ago i did the full-on geek girl happy dance--he will always be sexy to me.

Oh, and Gul Dukat from DS9--but ONLY in his makeup

oh my god DeadBessie, i thought i was the only one. i can't even describe the things i wanted to do to Gul Dukat. same for Todd the Wraith on Stargate:Atlantis.

i have too many sci-fi crushes to name them all, but i can include just about everyone mentioned above--except William Shatner's Captain Kirk, he has always annoyed the frak outta me.

Posted by: pq at August 27, 2009 12:29 PM

Well, if we're including comic book crushes, how about we go full geek & include manga/anime crushes?

Kyo Sohma, from Fruits Basket.

Posted by: MelBivDevoe at August 27, 2009 12:36 PM

Oh, this takes me back.... in fact, so far back that I had to look him up to get the name right!

Mark Goddard - Major Don West in 'Lost in Space'. Yes, the one with Robbie the Robot and the weird chimp-with-stuck-on-ears alien. It aired from 1965 to 1968. He was cute.

Followed by Captain James T Kirk, because I never could resist that naughty-boy-twinkle in his eye, and I was totally captivated by his odd line deliveries. Who? Else? Talks? Like......that? Nobody, that's who.

Posted by: Tarn at August 27, 2009 1:08 PM

I am a GHOF (Gray Haired Old Fart) so my first crush goes back to Barbara Bain on Space 1999. I first fell madly for her in the original Mission Impossible, but you did say SciFi.

Posted by: GHOF at August 27, 2009 1:43 PM

Vasquez from Aliens. I wanted to date her AND be her. She is so bad-ass.

Posted by: Lizzie (greeneyed fem) at August 27, 2009 1:49 PM

Princess Leia. Metal bikini. I was 9. She was perfect.

Posted by: Friendless Nerd at August 27, 2009 1:51 PM

Believe me, pq, we're not the only ones who had the hots for Dukat. I remember surfing the web once and finding a whole site devoted to naked renderings of the Cardassian--which was too much even for me.

Posted by: DeadBessie at August 27, 2009 3:02 PM

Teri Hatcher as Lois Lane, and retroactive (after I watched it again post-puberty) Jennifer Connelly in Labyrinth, though that's fantasy. If you need another, then it's Jennifer Connelly in Dark City. That's what I can remember anyhow. I'm sure there was a girl on Quantum Leap that made me swoon, the way Al's first wife makes me a big soggy mess when I rewatch it now.

Posted by: puppetDoug at August 27, 2009 3:07 PM

Fuck yeah we better be able to expand this to fantasy! I'm gettin' tired of all the sci-fi talk around here while ignoring the fantasy genre.

So with that said, Jareth from Labyrinth. Me and 10-gazillion other young girls, no doubt. David Bowie has a great deal to answer for.

DIdn't really develop crushes on sci-fi guys until my late 20s, so star trek was pretty much skipped. My first sci-fi crush...Marcus Cole.

Posted by: Foxeye at August 27, 2009 3:36 PM

Han Solo, enough said!

Posted by: Alarmjaguar at August 27, 2009 3:58 PM

Jiffyzen, I actually watched The Insatiable without realizing my dear Michael Biehn was in it. Film was total rubbish, but you know what? I would do Michael Biehn in that to. And in Planet Terror. And in anything he's ever done. Ever.

Clearly I have a Biehn sickness, and I'm ok with that!

Posted by: Sarah at August 27, 2009 7:05 PM

My first sci-fi crush was actually the Enterprise - I didn't want Kirk so much as I wanted his ship.

That being said, my main fantasy squeeze was Regis Hastur of Darkover. He and Danilo could have kept me company any day of the week...

Posted by: funtime42 at August 27, 2009 7:21 PM

I used to dream that Jonathan Taylor Thomas and I would meet, fall in love, and get married. And then I watched my first X-Files episode. After that, I dreamed that Jonathan Taylor Thomas and I would meet, fall in love...and then Fox Mulder would rush in, say "I don't think so, kid," and sweep me away so we could search for the truth together.

Posted by: Bethany at August 27, 2009 9:38 PM

Princess Leia, definitely, followed by Dana Scully.

Not coincidentally, Han Solo and Fox Mulder will always be my heroes.

Watching Star Wars and The X-Files as a kid were very formative.

Also, I guess I have to go with Hipster Douchebag, if only because it's a tie between that and Sci-Fi Geek and I agree that the latter will be overrun due to the nature of the comment diversion.

Posted by: kyle at August 28, 2009 11:52 PM

Dr. Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) from Quantum Leap.

And yes: sharing the love for glassy Superman of Lois & Clark.

And then some love for Back to the Future's Marty. I was 8. And watching an 80s inspired future in the 90s was great.

Posted by: Yetused at August 29, 2009 5:28 AM

Wow-Christopher Reeve from Superman. When I was 6 I saw that film, and that was it...

Posted by: vllach at August 29, 2009 3:31 PM

As a four-year-old, I was aware of wanting to marry Picard, Will Riker, and Han Solo. It was a very chaste sort of longing.

As an eight-year-old, though, both Mulder and Scully gave me my first down-there tingles. Red Speedo FTW. I think you all know what I mean. I'm pretty sure my first sex dream, around age ten or so, involved a Mulder/Scully sandwich. Mmmmm. And then Krycek entered my world and my sexual development really took off.

Whoever mentioned X-Files being really formative in childhood was right on the money. To this day I automatically get the hots for tall, brooding nerdy types and short, brainy redheads. ESPECIALLY if they have a tendency to be abducted by aliens.

Posted by: Heatseeker at August 30, 2009 2:01 AM

For me, it's easy - I was 14, The Phantom Menace came out, and I got my first introduction to Natalie Portman.

Posted by: Ben at August 31, 2009 12:50 PM


















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