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Wee Guide To: The Badass Women Of Sci-fi

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Channel: BBC The Social · 2017 · Entertainment

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Women have been kicking serious arse on screen for decades. There are so many badass ladies out there that it’s hard to squish ‘em all into one short guide. Wee Claire's back to share her Wee Guide To The Badass Women of Sci-Fi.
1. Star Trek’s Lieutenant Nyoto Uhura is one of the most important women of this list. She never needed saving and in one episode of the Original Series she even has her memory wiped and relearns up to college level by the very end. 

2. First lady of sci-fi Ellen Ripley, played by Sigourney Weaver, is one of the most badass! Handy with a flamethrower, single handedly took down a Xenomorph Queen with a power loader and never bowed down to the corporation.

3. Linda Hamilton plays Sarah Connor in Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgment Day – she’s the Mother of John Connor, the future saviour of humanity in the fight against the machines. In Terminator 2 though, she comes into her own; she’s plagued by visions of the future and will stop at absolutely nothing to protect her son John.

4. The X-Files’ Dana Scully is a woman of logic and science. She was the calm, reasoned voice to the series. Gillian Anderson was perfect as Scully, approaching each case throughout with a balance of steel, wit and sympathy.

There are just too many badass ladiies to get them onto a short list but surely that's a good thing!

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