#3: DATA (STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION) Without Lt. Commander Data and his positronic brain on the bridge of the Enterprise, Captain Picard and crew would’ve never made it out of Farpoint Station alive, let alone survived seven years in deep space. Not only was Data programmed to save Starfleet bacon on a regular basis, this love machine was “fully functional” in the bedroom too, as we learned when he photon torpedoed Lt. Tasha Yar’s lady bits in the ep aptly titled, “The Naked Now.”
#2: CYLONS An entire race of sentient artificial beings, the first iteration of Cylons looked like menacing tin soldiers, and hunted Lorne Greene and company to the brink of extinction in the original cheese-tastic “Battlestar Galactica.” Cylons 2.0 were still manufactured, but looked totally human and worshipped a mechanical god-like creator. Of course, if machines all looked like Tricia Helfer, Lucy Lawless and Grace Park, we’d have gone to Lincoln Tech to study gynecology.
#1: BENDER An “alcoholic, whore-mongering, chain-smoking gambler” (courtesy of Leela by way of Wikipedia), Bender Bending Rodriguez has been boozing, shagging, puffing and betting his way around “Futurama” since 1999—and like any good robotic killing machine, even survived a five-year TV hiatus! A borderline sociopath, pathological liar and unapologetic thief, Bender transforms the phrase “artificial intelligence” into something of an oxymoron—and if you don’t like it, you can bite his shiny metal ass!
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