I've just encountered this really pointless and goofy, yet strangely addictive online game: the Aridor Slave Rescue. You can rescue all your favorite science fiction characters from slavery and make them come work for you instead. And then other people come steal, seduce or win them away from you. Like I said, goofy and pointless. And the character bios are full of erroneous information and hideous misspellings of the characters' names. But somehow, it doesn't seem to matter.

Right now, I have working for me:

Zhaan and Stark from Farscape. (Romantic that I am, I could hardly bring myself to break them up.)

Damar, Gul Dukat's Lieutenant from Deep Space 9.

Sam Gamgee of Lord of the Rings.

Nurse Chapel of Star Trek, TOS.

Wesley Crusher of ST:TNG. (Admittedly an annoying character, but very useful when it comes to winning other characters in those battles of wits.)

And Mr. Mott, the ship's barber from ST:TNG.

(I had DS9's Quark for a while, too, but Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart of Doctor Who kicked his ass and sold him back into slavery. Ah, well.)

So if I need nursing, gardening, or a haircut, I guess I'm in good shape! And I'm making Wesley clean the toilets...