Question about Kirstie Alley's Saavik

[The Laughing Vulcan]

Has her image ever been used for cover art in the Trek Lit line?

In a similar vein, when authors write for the Saavik character, do you envisage Kirstie Alley's performance or Robin Curtis?

 

[Geoff]

Has her image ever been used for cover art in the Trek Lit line?

Not that I can recall.

In a similar vein, when authors write for the Saavik character, do you envisage Kirstie Alley's performance or Robin Curtis?

I imagine Robin Curtis's face with Kirstie Alley's affect. Don't know why, but it works for me. *shrug!*

 

[ClayinCA]

I'm pretty sure that the only time Saavik has ever been on a cover was The Pandora Principle, and that was definitely the Robin Curtis version.

 

[Allyn Gibson]

She was also on the cover of Vulcan's Heart, and that, too, was the Robin Curtis Saavik.

You'll find Kirstie Alley on some of the early DC Comics' Star Trek comics from 1983-4.

 

[ClayinCA]

She was also on the cover of Vulcan's Heart, and that, too, was the Robin Curtis Saavik.

Oh crap, that's right. I stand corrected!

 

[Mike Farley]

She was also on the cover of Vulcan's Heart, and that, too, was the Robin Curtis Saavik.

You'll find Kirstie Alley on some of the early DC Comics' Star Trek comics from 1983-4.

I believe they continued to draw her as Kirstie Alley right up until she left the series post-TVH.

 

[Allyn Gibson]

Not quite. Tom Sutton drew a Saavik that was somewhere in-between Alley and Curtis. She didn't look like Alley as she did in the pre-Star Trek III comics, but she didn't look like Curtis, either.

When Saavik returned in the post-Star Trek V comics, she was unambiguously Robin Curtis.

 

[ClayinCA]

I was never sure whether Tom Sutton's "in-between" was an actual attempt to blend the actresses' likenesses or inability to capture a good likeness; an awful lot of his faces looked nothing like the actors they were supposed to resemble (Spock, in particular).

 

[Allyn Gibson]

He had a good Alley likeness in the first four-parter.

But I agree that Sutton was not a likeness artist. He was good at suggesting the characters, but they didn't look a lot like the actors.

Though I've also wondered if Ricardo Villagran's inks were to blame. When he inked Gordon Purcell's two issues late in the first series, Purcell's ability to capture the likenesses (as years on the other titles will attest) was buried under the inks.

 

[ClayinCA]

That's probably got a lot to do with it. Fairly early on in the first series (I think it's the "origin of Saavik" two-parter, along around #7-8), there's a fill-in on pencils by, I think, Eduardo Barreto - and Villagran's inks are so overpowering you can't even tell it's not Sutton on pencils.

 

[Therin of Andor]

I was never sure whether Tom Sutton's "in-between" was an actual attempt to blend the actresses' likenesses or inability to capture a good likeness

The change in eyebrow shape happens panel by panel in the two-part "Origin of Saavik" storyline. Blame it on the pon farr!

(Makes your hair curl, too.)