Another cool birthday displayed on my Simpsons calendar at work. My childhood wouldn’t the same without her and the rather goofy hairdo (more like a hairdon’t in her opinion) in Star Wars. Oddly, I never had a crush on Princess Leia. Maybe I was too young at the time. Much like her movie character, my Leia action figure (3-4″ is too small to be a doll) was often a competent and sagacious leader in all the numerous space operas I managed. So Carrie did have a different, positive influence over my upbringing.
All the women in SciFi before her usually got relegated to lame roles which have been revamped thankfully: Lt. Uhura, the Robinson women, Athena, and Cassiopeia. Sheba seemed to buck the trend, too bad she wasn’t memorably “re-imagined” in the 2003 version of Battlestar Galacitca unless Bryan Singer’s version happens.