It should come as a surprise to no one that companions from the Doctor Who reboot (2005 to present) took the highest places in our poll, because the earlier Who iterations are no longer being regularly broadcast. It seems the original series has been relegated to the purview of  die hard Who enthusiasts and pre-Eccleston purists. (As hard as it may be to believe, I know at least two people personally for whom there never will be a Doctor after Tom Baker.  Baker was the Doctor of my childhood - mostly due to a ten-year lag that used to exist between shows airing on the BBC and the same shows entering the US airwaves - so I have a great sympathy for them. However, they've missed some great stuff, especially lately.)

I urge all of you new Who enthusiasts to check out the old show on Netflix. Yes, sometimes the sets wobble and the Daleks are thwarted by stairs, but the show transcended its trappings. If it had not, there would not have been a reboot. Pinky swear.

Now that I've had nearly a month to heal the blow to my heart that was The End of Time, and it is time to face up to the end of Ten as well as the end of our  Who Companion poll. *sniffle* Thanks to all who voted!

Here's the final tally:

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We went around and around a bit, here at GeekaChicas headquarters, trying to decide on a topic for our next poll. We settled on Kick-Ass Femmes, not only because they are awesome, beloved characters, but also because they are important to us on a very personal level.

When it came down to picking who to include, then it got tricky.  We decided to narrow it to television only (sorry Ripley!) which helped. Then we cut down the number of female characters even more by limiting it to to genre shows. (Goodbye, Cagney and Lacey!) There was some discussion as to whether Alias counted as a scifi show, and we finally decided it didn't. (Sorry Sydney!)  Heroes came up, too, but the toughest chick on Heroes was the split personality of a currently dead character. (Plus, after a season of inscrutably unmotivated character actions, that show is dead to several of us, so it didn't get much traction.)

The list was still too long, so we again had to limit to shows that aired within the last ten years. (Farewell, Wonder Woman, Emma Peel and other icons of female empowerment!) Even then, there were still too many choices, so we further trimmed it by losing any character that was not actually known for being able to kick some honest-to-goodness ass in a physical confrontation. (*sniffle* I'll miss you, Martha Jones!)

Our final list revealed something interesting -- Joss Whedon characters take up a full third of our nominees. Any attempt to lower that number led to unpleasantness, and for good reason. So, in honor of kick-ass female characters everywhere, we offer up this speech by Joss himself:

 

"What! No Sam Carter on your poll? That's impossible!" 

Did we miss your favorite?  Sound off in our  Forum!

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Welcome to our poll results show Chica Trek fans!

This is Darth Sweetums reporting from the GeekaChica’s stadium.  What a race it has been!  I had no idea the upstanding commanders of Starfleet’s finest could be so conniving.

Before I announce the FINAL SCORE let us go over some of the highlights of the race.

When we last left our Captains, Jean Luc Picard was holding a commanding (pun possibly intended) lead over the rest of his competitors.  Original Kirk kept up a distant second, with Janeway in third, Sisko and young!Kirk switching back and forth over fourth place and Archer, having lost consciousness at the beginning of the race,  kept to my expectations and held fifth place.

Yes indeed, it looked like the race was already sewn up as Jean Luc took a break and decided to take his afternoon tea along the sidelines.  But that, my poll race fan friends is when the treachery started.

In my entire career I have never seen any group of people fight so dirty before. Picard was in the lead and taking a pit stop at the side of the track when it was first noticed that Original Kirk was gaining more votes and Picard’s stats were standing perfectly still. The crowd here in the stadium, me right along with them, began to grow suspicious. 

Everyone looked to Picard to see his reaction to the score board and that was when the audience as a whole screamed foul.  Captain Jean Luc Picard was sitting unconscious in his lawn chair, his cup of tea tilted just so in his hand that the liquid had leaked out and soiled his pants.  Thankfully, he was wearing black, as always.

We all had our suspicions as to who the culprit was.  I personally suspected Original Uhura, as I was no longer able to see her in the stands after the incident.  Whoever it was though, got away with hypospraying Picard into a comatose state.  Thankfully, fans had little to fear as Doctor Beverly Crusher raced down from the stands to assist the stadium medics in reviving the good Captain.

Just as Picard regained consciousness, flipped the birdie to Original Kirk who looked as though he was about to moon him, the entire stadium was engulfed in an enormous burst of energy that seemed to be coming from the center field.  After the light cleared it revealed some sort of portal.  Someone had opened a portal in the space/time continuum right here in GeekaChica Stadium! 

The crowd cheered and screamed, clamoring away from it as two figures stepped through.  This announcer had to check through her binoculars to make certain who it was.  Just as I had suspected, it was Original Kirk and Spock from the Alternate Reality! 

Immediately Alternate!Original Kirk began hoofing it on the track, much faster than his counterpart.  There had to be something against the rules about this!  Two Kirks vying for double the amount of votes?  That, however, was when I realized that we didn’t have a rule book. 

Alternate!Original  Spock stayed close to the portal, keeping it stable, I assume, stroking his ever sexy emo-goatee and smiling mischievously.  While several of us, and I include myself in this, were distracted by Alternate!Original Spock’s sexiness, Sisko and Janeway seemed to take advantage of the situation.

Sisko slowed to a slow trot as another figure from the crowd joined him and morphed before our very eyes into a horse!  Captain Sisko mounted the horse and shot off like a rocket around the track, pulling votes right out from under young!Kirk.

Janeway, however, refused to go down without a fight.  Pulling out her phaser, she fired on Archer’s hover chair and disabled it as he had just realized that it could go up to 50 mph.  After a short pit stop, where we witnessed her speaking quickly with Seven of Nine, she took up the track once again.

Everything appeared to be going smoothly, aside from Alternate!Original Spock throwing out Vulcan Neck Pinches like they were candy to any figure of authority who approached him about the portal.  Janeway - innocent, rule abiding Captain Janeway – revealed a device she had been holding in her hand since her pit stop.  She punched some buttons and was suddenly a blur around the track. 

It wasn’t transwarp she was using.  It was something different.  Slip Stream Drive!  Janeway had figured out how to build a personal slip stream unit!  But oh, it was so unstable, she was definitely taking a risk in using it.   The risk factor was definitely proven correct when the slip stream broke down and shot her back out into normal space, across the field, over the stands and out of the stadium like she was just hit by Sammie Sosa.

I believe it was when Young!Spock approached young!Kirk about the bit of Red Matter he held in his pocket that the stadium authorities finally gained control of the situation.  Alternate!Original Spock had been pulled away from the portal by the ever useful Data as Geordi LaForge and Chief O’Brien quickly tried to figure out how to close the portal and send the Alternate! Characters back to their universe.

The race was stopped for a time until the sexy goatee Spock and Kirk were sent back to their own world and the portal closed…

…Um, my apologies.  Thankfully, I had written all of these events down as they were happening.  Apparently, the portal closing caused time to reset itself and everyone involved to forget what had happened, which is kind of a bummer.  I want to see sexy goateed Spock.

The last thing I remember was Picard being unconscious along the sidelines.

However, everything assisting our competitors was removed from the field and the race continued to reveal the FINAL SCORE:

Captain Jean Luc Picard - 254 votes
Original James T. Kirk – 109 votes  [Oh snap!]
Kathryn Janeway – 46 votes
Benjamin Sisko – 28 votes
Young!  James Kirk – 26 votes
Jonathan Archer – 5 votes

Congratulations Captain Jean Luc Picard for winning our fan poll!!  You deserve it my dear, you deserve it!

Oh, and I’ve just been told that Janeway was never launched out of the stadium, which means she remains unharmed and still with us.

Now, if you’ll excuse me I’m going to go and ask Mr. LaForge how one would open up a portal like that if one was interested in seeing a sexy, emo-Vulcan.

This is Darth Sweetums signing off!

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Welcome to your update for the current Geeka Chicas poll! This is Darth Sweetums reporting from GeekaChicas Stadium.

There are so many excited fans at the track today, let me tell you.  Many of them are dressed in their favorite Star Trek garb.  I've seen several Klingons, many Spocks and one bald Captain James T. Kirk.  Kudos to that fan, whoever he was.

 Anyway, our poll race for the Fan Favorite ST Captain has been a no contest so far.  What? You ask me, your mouth agape?  It is true my dears, it is  true.

When this announcer first checked the poll Picard had already surpassed expectations by going at warp speed around the track gaining him 25 votes over Original Kirk's 13 that held him at second place.  Janeway, however held strongly at third with 9 votes while Sisko stole fourth place out from under young!Kirk's perfect nose with 2 points. 

 A strange yet interesting development occurred right at the start of the race.  I believe the shot of our starting revolver must have spooked him because Captain Archer seemed to have passed out at the starting line and gave no sign of regaining consciousness.

At first, no one was concerned.  Most of us fans believed that Archer was after a few sympathy votes and maybe some candy.  His plight was not noticed until young!Kirk made his first lap around the track and stopped at Archer's pathetic form lying in the dirt.

To everyone's amazement young!Kirk seemed to forget about the race and stopped to help Archer by calling young!hotter!Bones down from the stands to check up on poor Archer.  I believe the poor Captain began sucking his thumb at that point. 

Meanwhile, the votes are pouring in and our Captains are going steadily along the track until Picard hits 30 votes to deafening cheers from the fans.  All was going well for the French Captain until he made a premature victory lap, waving to the crowd, not paying attention to where he was going and tripped on Archer's immobile body. 

Young!Kirk had been trying to wave the good Captain away but poor Jean-Luc was not paying attention and flew clean over Archer and young!Kirk landing face first in the dirt.

The only person who appeared to receive some sort of joy out of this event was Captain Sisko, grinning from ear to ear as he passed Picard on the track.  I still sense some tension there.  Locutus was not Picard, Ben!  Give it a rest!

Picard seemed to be okay after his fall, however, but he did not start up the race again.  Instead, he returned to the scene of the accident and kicked Archer, who didn't seem to notice, out of seething frustration.  Young!Bones did not like that one bit and got to his feet.  The crowd is absolutely coming unglued at this point because unlike original Bones, young!Bones looks rather intimidating.  I think it's because he looks shockingly like a dorky Karl Urban.  Could be just me though.

The two men looked as though they were about to face off when a loud cry came from the stands and everyone watched as a large, dark man came flying down the stands and onto the track.  It took all of us a moment to identify him but it was none other than Commander Worf, running to defend his Captain against the crotchety physician.

Not long after the fight settled and our Captains were back on track Archer miraculously regained consciousness and Bones was able to push him once around the track in an antigravity chair.  I'm not sure how many more sympathy votes Archer will be able to squeeze out of fans but at least he's awake now.

Right now Picard has been taking a pit stop for several hours along the sidelines reading his beloved collection of Shakespearean works and enjoying several cups of Earl Grey.  He is sitting pretty at 61 votes.  

I believe that Original Kirk may be too concerned about his toupe staying on his head as he is now running around the track with one hand slapped firmly on the top of his head.  It's really slowing him down.  He is staying in second place at 36 points.

And that's all we really need to know.  As fans, we all know that these polls always end up about one thing:  Kirk vs Picard.  So cast your votes and keep your eyes peeled for more updates!

Until next time, thank you and good night!

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Welcome to your update for the current Geeka Chicas poll! This is Darth Sweetums reporting from GeekaChicas Stadium.

There are so many excited fans at the track today, let me tell you.  Many of them are dressed in their favorite Star Trek garb.  I've seen several Klingons, many Spocks and one bald Captain James T. Kirk.  Kudos to that fan, whoever he was.

 Anyway, our poll race for the Fan Favorite ST Captain has been a no contest so far.  What? You ask me, your mouth agape?  It is true my dears, it is  true.

When this announcer first checked the poll Picard had already surpassed expectations by going at warp speed around the track gaining him 25 votes over Original Kirk's 13 that held him at second place.  Janeway, however held strongly at third with 9 votes while Sisko stole fourth place out from under young!Kirk's perfect nose with 2 points. 

 A strange yet interesting development occurred right at the start of the race.  I believe the shot of our starting revolver must have spooked him because Captain Archer seemed to have passed out at the starting line and gave no sign of regaining consciousness.

At first, no one was concerned.  Most of us fans believed that Archer was after a few sympathy votes and maybe some candy.  His plight was not noticed until young!Kirk made his first lap around the track and stopped at Archer's pathetic form lying in the dirt.

To everyone's amazement young!Kirk seemed to forget about the race and stopped to help Archer by calling young!hotter!Bones down from the stands to check up on poor Archer.  I believe the poor Captain began sucking his thumb at that point. 

Meanwhile, the votes are pouring in and our Captains are going steadily along the track until Picard hits 30 votes to deafening cheers from the fans.  All was going well for the French Captain until he made a premature victory lap, waving to the crowd, not paying attention to where he was going and tripped on Archer's immobile body. 

Young!Kirk had been trying to wave the good Captain away but poor Jean-Luc was not paying attention and flew clean over Archer and young!Kirk landing face first in the dirt.

The only person who appeared to receive some sort of joy out of this event was Captain Sisko, grinning from ear to ear as he passed Picard on the track.  I still sense some tension there.  Locutus was not Picard, Ben!  Give it a rest!

Picard seemed to be okay after his fall, however, but he did not start up the race again.  Instead, he returned to the scene of the accident and kicked Archer, who didn't seem to notice, out of seething frustration.  Young!Bones did not like that one bit and got to his feet.  The crowd is absolutely coming unglued at this point because unlike original Bones, young!Bones looks rather intimidating.  I think it's because he looks shockingly like a dorky Karl Urban.  Could be just me though.

The two men looked as though they were about to face off when a loud cry came from the stands and everyone watched as a large, dark man came flying down the stands and onto the track.  It took all of us a moment to identify him but it was none other than Commander Worf, running to defend his Captain against the crotchety physician.

Not long after the fight settled and our Captains were back on track Archer miraculously regained consciousness and Bones was able to push him once around the track in an antigravity chair.  I'm not sure how many more sympathy votes Archer will be able to squeeze out of fans but at least he's awake now.

Right now Picard has been taking a pit stop for several hours along the sidelines reading his beloved collection of Shakespearean works and enjoying several cups of Earl Grey.  He is sitting pretty at 61 votes.  

I believe that Original Kirk may be too concerned about his toupe staying on his head as he is now running around the track with one hand slapped firmly on the top of his head.  It's really slowing him down.  He is staying in second place at 36 points.

And that's all we really need to know.  As fans, we all know that these polls always end up about one thing:  Kirk vs Picard.  So cast your votes and keep your eyes peeled for more updates!

Until next time, thank you and good night!

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That's right, my dears! The current poll will be closing Friday, to make way for a new Poll next week.  Right now the top three are:

1. Spencer Reid, Boy genius of Criminal Minds
2. Alec Hardison, Master Geek of Leverage
3. The Tenth Doctor, Time Lord and kinetic Super-Geek of Doctor Who 

If your Favorite Geek Boy is down in the rankings, this is your chance to boost him up. Mobilize your clan of Pushing Daisies Ned-lovers! Think the brilliant werewolf, George, form Being Human  needs some fangirling? You'd better get to it!

GeekaChicas will be running a special video treat featuring the final top three, so vote for your favorites.

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