PDTMWYM
Please Don’t Tell Me What You Mean.
No it’s harmless, it’s actual mustard.
excellent, Pike. I think I’m going to find that acronym/initialism/whatever-the-frak-you-want-to-call-it very useful in dealing with The Beav.
IYKWSM, 
Thanks for the link. Can anyone tell me more about the Amazon-type planets and the scantily clad women who inhabit them? Who are all the blue or green women Chuck and Sean are always debating about? I’d love a scantily clad gal who is covered in body makeup. Am I asking for too much?
Do I need to threaten to look into the world of Babylon 5? :eek:
Well, there’s always Orion Slave Girls, they’re a real classic:
How about making your character a Borg hottie? I mean, some of the Borg females we’re real knockouts and not averse to showing skin.
Or a hot Vulcan.
How about the Edo?
Sorry, just the usual Earthling colors. 
Do I need to threaten to look into the world of Babylon 5? :eek:
Not a lot of skin in B5, although Londo’s wives were a bit… buxom.
This is what I mean! What does her real costume look like? I will check out the Borg. Can you tell about Orion Slave girls? What are they famous for?
Find everything important about Orion, Orion Slave Girls and the Orion Syndicate (Star Trek’s Mafia) hereand here
Thanks everyone. Looks like I need to place my character in a ST:DS9 episode rather than a ST:TNG one if she’s going to play an Orion slave girl. All the links have been a great resource for a non-Trekkie like me. I really don’t want to jumble my Trek facts!
Not necessarily. [noparse]ST:DS9[/noparse] and ST:TNG occur during the same time period, in (more or less) the same part of the galaxy. Orion slave girls were a mainstay of the Trek universe, although the Next Generation folk probably wouldn’t have approved of the whole slavery angle.
Dawn, I’m not enough of a Trekkie to pull out all the random aliens you’re hearing about on a whim, but I wanted to say that I love this idea for a minor character in a novel. How fun!
Actually it’s for my antagonist. She’s like a female version of Johnny Drama from Entourage- a bit past her prime, not Oscar material, but show business is all she knows. Given her age and abilities (80’s child sitcom star) guest spots on series are the only good work she got between Playboy and rehab. I also have a reference to her guest spot on crime drama playing a dead hooker, because crime dramas always need dead hookers. One of the fun things about placing your characters in the world of Hollywood is that you can make up all this stupid stuff and the more cliche or silly it sounds, the better it works for some reason.
Or, you could have your character say something like, “I had such a bit part, not even the Trekkies remember me!”
I like that, thanks for the good idea Mike P.
You should say the character played a Dabo Girl on Deep Space Nine.
http://www.memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Dabo_girl
Sounds like the life of Grace Lee Whitney, it’s a cliche that’s true. But isn’t that how it becomes a cliche? That being said, I’d be careful with choosing an actual character or actress, with slander and all. You’re best bet would be a female Klingon warrior in a bar scene in such episodes as ‘Redemption’ or ‘Way of the Warrior’. They’re all in makeup and in the background with no mention in the credits. It could be anyone then.
I wasn’t planning on replacing a real actress with my character, because you’re right, that gets tricky. I want to make a general reference. In studying the great choices here, the Dabo girl or Orion slave girl seems best. But I get the impression the Dabo girls were different species. Am I right? Which gal appeared more frequently? Would it be out of line to pretend my character played a Dabo girl for two episodes?
What I need is for my character to have been visible enough on screen that someone, who is a true and avid fan, could say, “I remember you on ST:DS9” even though her part was small.
If that’s the case, Fenatic had the right idea. Choose an unknown Dabo girl. Most of them were unknown actresses, yet recognizable to fans. All you’d need is a simply reference. “I was at Rom and Leeta’s wedding” Y’know something like that.
I’m going with the unknown Dabo girl- very good advice and guidance from everyone, I really appreciate it. I wish the rest of the research I need to do for novel could be this fun.