NOTE FROM JOHN:

Welcome back! We had a wonderful holiday season
here at TopFive SciFi HQ here in L-5 orbit, and we
hope you did as well. In fact, we had such a relaxing
vacation that it got us wondering what some of our
favorite SciFi characters did on *their* vacations…

The Top 8 Things Science Fiction
Characters Did On Their Holiday Vacations

8> Went to the beach and ate an ice-cream. Disarmed a thermonuclear device and saved the world. It was mint chocolate-chip.

7> Hammerhead: Received a turtleneck from Greedo, said, “Oh… how, uh… thoughtful.”

6> The Borg: Opened a temporal vortex to 1904 Bedford Falls, to prevent George Bailey from ever being born.

5> Spock: Same as every year; after watching Dr. McCoy getting sentimentally drunk, it is only logical that one should short-sheet his bed.

4> R. Daneel Olivaw: Had a series of cheap, meaningless relationships with a toaster, a photocopier and the traffic light at Main & Fifth.

3> Ultraman: Planted a nice bonsai garden/tumbling mat in downtown Tokyo.

2> Queen Amidala: Put shiny head-ornaments back into their little boxes until next year.

and the Number 1 Thing a Science Fiction Character Did On Their
Holiday Vacation…

1> It was a typical holiday for John Hammond: A wee bit of egg-nog, a yule log in the fireplace, and the bonnie, wee clones of Santa’s elves knocking about the workshop on Isla Navidad…

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Credits:

Selected from 28 submissions from 9 contributors.
Today’s Top 5 List authors are:

Guy Payne, Birmingham, AL — 1, 5 (4th #1)
Travis Ruetenik, Honolulu, HI — 2, 3
David Goudsward, Boynton Beach, FL — 4
Toby Click, Macon, GA — 6, 7
Peter Casper, Brisbane, Australia — 8
Mary Ann McDonald, Sacramento, CA — RU List Name
John Mozena, Grosse Pointe Woods, MI — Prime Director