mmm, skience

[usuallyhats]

Have signed up for ladiesbigbang! I'm planning to do a sort of multi-category, multi-fandom thing, including a vid, about fictional female scientists. I'm starting to think about source footage and was wondering if any of you lovely people had any ideas for characters I really should include? So far I have two lists, one of characters who I'm sure I will definitely be able to find footage for, and one of characters who are distinct possibilities, and I would love to hear thoughts on either list and on people I've missed off. ♥ (I have decided, somewhat arbitrarily, that I'm not counting doctors unless they're doing specifically research medicine, sort of thing. This is mostly so I don't have to clip ALL of E.R.)

Probably in
Doctor Who: Zoe, Liz, Romana, Amelia Rutherford, Nyssa, Anne Travers, The TARDIS, the Rani
Star Trek: Jadzia Dax, Seven of Nine, B'Elanna Torres
Jake 2.0: Diane Hughes, Fran Yoshida
Firefly: Kaylee
Angel: Fred
Bones: Brennan and Angela
Fringe: Astrid Farnsworth
SJA: Sarah and Maria welding
X-Files: Scully
Veronica Mars: Mac
Torchwood: Tosh
Buffy: Willow, Maggie Walsh. (I may also include that bit from "Goodbye Iowa" where Buffy disguises herself as a scientist, though this is probably cheating.)
SG1: Sam (if anyone could point me in the direction of any episodes that are particularly heaving on Sam doing science-y things I would be very grateful; there's a lot of SG1 and most of it I haven't seen!)
SGA: Miko

Possibly in
Doctor Who: Mel
Star Trek: Beverly, Pulaski, Kes, Keiko O'Brien (do we ever actually see her doing any botany?)
SG1/SGA: Janet, Elizabeth Weir, Jennifer Keller
Gilmore Girls: do we ever see Rory or Paris in a science lab at Chiltern?
Harry Potter: Hermione (potions totally count as science! Sort of.)
Andromeda: do Trance or Rommie ever do anything visibly science-y, or is that always left to Harper?
Blake's 7: Cally? I have a vague memory of her doing experiments at some point, but may have made this up.
Primeval?
Bond ladies! Wikipedia suggests Holly Goodhead (Moonraker), Christmas Jones (The World Is Not Enough) and Natalya Simonova (Goldeneye)
If I am counting doctors doing research, then Meredith's clinical trials could go in too.

Comments

[fly_to_dawn]

Helen Cutter is a scientist - I think she's an Evolutionary biologist, and I can't remember her doing anything science-y during the series, hmm. Also Meera Syal's character in Doctor Who studies minerals.

[usuallyhats]

Thank you! Will go and trawl through screencaps and see if anything turns up. :)

I can't believe I forgot Nasreen! ♥

[fly_to_dawn]

Oh, and I remember Abby from Primeval experimenting with plants and temperatures in 3x04 - according to extended canon she dropped out of her Zoology degree but she could still be a scientist (especially with the alternate timeline thing going on).

Good luck with the project!

[usuallyhats]

Thank you! Doing experiments is scientisty enough for my purposes - yay, excuse to include Abby! :)

[cosmic-llin.livejournal.com]

Yaaaay, exciting! I will love you forever if you manage to include Pulaski, but I'm not sure we ever see her doing research, just hear about it... and there are a handful of brief Keiko botany clips about...

Helen Magnus from Sanctuary would also be a good one to include. As far as Sam Carter goes... most episodes that take place even partly on-base, there'll be a scene with her looking at the computer... and I'm sure a couple of times she and Janet have skienced together... possibly Rite of Passage? Maybe Space Race for messing with technology?

[usuallyhats]

That's a shame about Pulaski! I haven't actually seen any of her episodes but I was hoping that with a year's worth of them there'd be at least one "everyone gets Space Flu and Pulaski has to find a cure before they run out of redshirts" type plot. :)

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That's a shame about Pulaski! I haven't actually seen any of her episodes but I was hoping that with a year's worth of them there'd be at least one "everyone gets Space Flu and Pulaski has to find a cure before they run out of redshirts" type plot. :)

<em.and I'm sure a couple of times she and Janet have skienced together... possibly Rite of Passage? Maybe Space Race for messing with technology?</em>
Ooo, awesome, I didn't even think of them having scenes together, thank you!

(And thank you for suggesting that Dandy Warhols song, by the way - I think it is just what I was looking for!)

[cosmic-llin.livejournal.com]

Well, I'll have another think about Pulaski - does it count if she's examining a person encased in plastic? - and let you know if anything occurs.

And yay for the song!

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

What about Martha in her first TW ep, Reset, when she and Owen are doing their Skience Montage thing?

Also, Helen Magnus does LOTS of scientific stuff in Sanctuary - I can, if you require, point you at specific scenes/episodes. (I'm just coming towards the end of a re-watch of the whole of the three seasons so far aired...)

Also Claudia and Myka in Warehouse 13. (They're not strictly scientists but they do Skience-y stuff sometimes...)

[usuallyhats]

I can, if you require, point you at specific scenes/episodes.
Ooo, if you don't mind, that would be great, thank you! I've never seen any of it.

And thank you for the other suggestions too - v. pleased that I'll have an excuse to include Martha after all! :D

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

Okay. Give me a day or so to assemble the list of Magnus scenes and then I'll share.

:D I am glad you accepted the Martha suggestion. (It's such a crying shame she has so few of those moments!)

[usuallyhats]

Thank you thank you! :D

(It's such a crying shame she has so few of those moments!)
*nods* Thank you for reminding me - I was very sad to think I'd have to exclude her...

[persiflage-1.livejournal.com]

You're welcome!

*I* would've pouted if you'd omitted ma Martha! :D

[carawj.livejournal.com]

Ha, well,I was about to comment about Helen Magnus, but I see you're well covered there! ;)

Also, Farscape - Zhaan does a lot of science-ing! And is blue, and awesome. Yes.

[usuallyhats]

Hee, yeah!

And thank you! I didn't watch much of Farscape, but I do remember Zhaan being awesome. :)

[ladymercury-10.livejournal.com]

Nasreen from Doctor Who was a scientist, but she was only in those two Silurian episodes last season.

[usuallyhats]

Ooo, so she was, thank you! Will definitely try and include her - she was great.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

How about the wonderful goth Abby Sciuto from NCIS? She's cute and funny and gorgeous. And a genius.

I don't remember Cally doing experiments, and Elizabeth Weir was really a diplomat/negotiator then commander. Sam Carter blowing up a sun? :-) Another I can think of is Temple Brennan from Bones though I don't watch it. Ooh, and Claudia Donovan from Warehouse 13! Young and very cute.

[usuallyhats]

I've heard nothing but good things about Abby, so will definitely investigate her, thank you!

I thought Elizabeth was an anthropologist or something as well as a diplomat? But on second thoughts that may not be right! Brennan is definitely going in, I love her, and you're the second person to recommend Claudia so I'll most likely be including her too, thank you!

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Glad I could help! I'm sure there's footage on YouTube for all of them.

[livii.livejournal.com]

Definitely include Mel! Computer science is a type of science! Plus, Mel!! :D I'm sure I remember a scene with her and a computer, or something like that...hmm.

I think Hermione doing Potions counts. At the very least, she approaches it like a science, you know?

I'm curious as to what clips of the TARDIS you would use to show her as a scientist? Or do you mean the human!TARDIS from The Doctor's Wife?

[usuallyhats]

Computer science definitely counts! I just haven't seen any of Mel's episodes yet, so wasn't sure if she actually did any computery stuff. Will go and hunt for that scene now I know it exists, thank you!

At the very least, she approaches it like a science, you know?
Yeah, that's what I was thinking. And it is treated more or less like chemistry!

Or do you mean the human!TARDIS from The Doctor's Wife?
Yep, that's what I meant! I'm hoping there'll be something usable in that scene where she and Eleven are building themselves a console room.