This 1999 episode, The Human Operators, is based on an eponymous short story by Harlan Ellison and A.E. van Vogt, first published in the January 1971 issue of “The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction”.
On a ship controlled by an authoritarian computer maintained by human slaves, a man and woman learn that the ship fears them. The humans dream of sabotaging the ship’s sentient control system and freeing themselves.
Polly Shannon is a Canadian actress whose career spans more than 30 years, including a few nude scenes in the 1990s and early 2000s. I suppose her most famous role was when she played Margaret Trudeau, mother of Justin, in a docudrama about the career of Justin’s father, the flashy, charismatic Prime Minister that Dick Nixon contemptuously called a “pompous egghead” and “that socialist asshole.” Historians, however, treat Mr. Trudeau much more respectfully that they treat Mr. Nixon.
Of course, that isn’t a very high bar. Historians rate Nixon about halfway between Vlad the Impaler and the Black Plague. While Nixon wasn’t much of a socialist, he definitely got the asshole part done to a science.
Polly Shannon was a youthful 30 when she played Margaret Trudeau, but Pierre actually began to pursue Margaret when she was a teenager and he was in his late 40s. She was 22 when they married, and he had already passed 50.
Things were not very smooth between the Trudeaus, and they separated only six years after their wedding, while he was still PM, although their marriage officially dragged on for another seven years. During the separated-but-married phase, she became quite the party animal. One of Margaret’s autobiographies (she has written at least three) discussed her affairs with Jack Nicholson, Ryan O’Neal, Lou Rawls, and Ted Kennedy. She probably also had affairs with at least two of the Rolling Stones, but apparently failed to connect with Dino, Desi or Billy.
Although she was apparently a busy lady, she did find the time to show the world her coochie in 1979, while Pierre was still PM:
Photograph of exposed Margaret Trudeau (former wife of Pierre Trudeau (Prime Minister of Canada)/Author/Actress/Photographer) at Studio 54. The wildly popular Margaret “Maggie” Trudeau’s escapades at Studio 54 were a source of notoriety and scandal during her separation from her husband, as she courted attention by deliberately flashing the paparazzi. High Society magazine purchased this photo for use in their September 1979 issue, fanning the flames of her existing notoriety. Provenance: The Personal Collection of Bill & Carol Clements, Elizaville, New York. Manning and Clements were lifelong friends and confidants. During a personal interview on Manning’s life and career, Clements marveled at the candid images, only possible through the connections RPM made with his celebrity subjects as they invited him (unlike so many other photographers) into their lives to capture a moment of revelry.
Loved this show, Femme Fatales was another goofy shot-in-Toronto sci-fi show with loads of nudity
If it were Molly Shannon, then you’d have something.