Actress Katee Sackhoff turned the science fiction world on its ear when the Sci Fi Channel cast her in their revamped version of “Battlestar Galactica” (2004- ) as Captain Kara Thrace – better known as “Starbuck,” a character firmly cemented in the minds of the original series’ fans as a man. But Sackhoff’s spirited performance in the role soon won over that dedicated demographic and even earned her a Saturn Award in 2006 for her performance. She quickly graduated to another highly anticipated revival of a classic science fiction series, “Bionic Woman” (NBC, 2007), as a supercharged adversary
