How hot was Japanese babe Miko Mayama? Consider how hard it is for Asian actresses to make it in Hollywood today, then think about how she was trying to make her mark in American flicks about twenty years after we went to war with her home nation. Yeah, you've gotta be one fine piece to have war vets cool with you being on their screens so shortly after achieving peace with your country. Miko may be familiar to sci-fi nerds for her role as Tamura in the Star Trek: The Original Series episode “A Taste of Armageddon", but she’d been working in TV and movies since the mid-1960s, when according to Burt Reynolds' biography, he found her doing kabuke theater in Japan, brought her to the USA and helped teach her English. Burt eventually ditched her for Dinah Shore, but not before Miko was well on her way to making it in Hollywood having shown up in episodes of hit shows like The Beverly Hillbillies, I Spy, The Courtship of Eddie's Father and Love, American Style. From westerns such as The War Wagon (1967) to adventure flicks such as Impasse (1969), she added an exotic erotica to Hollywood hotties. But it was opposite Charlton Heston in The Hawaiians (1970) and Fred Williamson in the blaxploitation movie That Man Bolt (1973), that she really sent us into outer space. In the Heston flick, Charlie is lying in a hot tub when Miko hops up topless and it gets even hotter. Then, though seen from a distance, her tush, tits and muff are clearly visual. Maybe we’ll visit our inner-space, like in our pants, to fully appreciate her pervformance. While it seemed like the sky was the limit for the lovely lady from the far East, instead Miko stopped acting in 1979 after playing Sun on an episode of M*A*S*H. My arm-a gets tired every time Miko Mayama is onscreen!