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"The Girls of Sci-Fi," published in Lad Mag FHM in 2001.

In addition to being cheesecake, this is an interesting illustration of what and who were relevant in the genre at the time, with some remembered today, and others not so much. All in all, a fascinating time capsule for scifi media in the year 2001.

From left to right, they are:

Michelle Lintel (primarily known as the superheroine Black Scorpion)

Gena Lee Nolin (Sheena, Queen of the Jungle)

Traci Bingham (primarily known at this point as the feature reporter on Battlebots, a sports/reality tv show where local boffins and electronic whizzes build remote control robots to fight each other, letting engineers be sports heroes)

Vicki Pratt (a tanned fit Canadian who was frequently employed on shows filmed in British Columbia for dodgy, borderline illegal tax purposes like Cleopatra 2525 and Mutant X, one of the earliest women in the culture to get famous for having visible abs)

Alexondra Lee (one of the more obscure people on this list with some of the scantier scifi credits, like Vicki Pratt, she was a British Columbia native who often did the many Vancouver filmed series created as tax dodges in this era. I think she is here because she was on the Buffy-clone UPN show Special Unit 2, a show with special agents assigned to capture folklore creatures. It was a flop that only aired a half dozen episodes, but in 2001, we didn't know that and it seemed at the time this photo was taken, it was the future of scifi)

Roxanne Dawson (Lt. Torres on Star Trek: Voyager, which was still in its last season in 2001)

Lexa Doig (yet another BC native, she was the artificially intelligent starship Andromeda in Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda. She was also married to a key figure in the Canadian Decade of Science Fiction, Michael Shanks from Stargate SG-1, who in the 1990s internet, had more fan sites than Brad Pitt did)

Emile de Raven (at this point, she had yet to do Lost and was mainly known for Roswell)

꒰ა🎀໒꒱ - Glamour model / actress Victoria Silvstedt appearing in magazine "FHM's" December issue (2005)