Which Ziyal or Saavik is their canon appearance?
Under the Cardassian makeup the Ziyals look pretty much alike. Like the Borg Queens.
The second Saavik is portrayed by a less controversial actor.
But I concede the point - seeing the Hansen parents change looks is a bit confusing to watch.
Moving my goalpost, I’d say it’s more important with main and recurring characters than bit players. In the Jurassic Saga movies, there could only be one Alan Grant, but Lewis Dodgson only appeared briefly before being recast.
No. You're making excuses for insisting that Shatner=Kirk.
That's not true. Nor is it particularly important.
Ah, when you disagree with a rationale it’s an excuse, untrue and not particularly important. Again, it doesn’t matter what Spider-Man or Fitzwilliam Darcy look like because the source material is written. Whereas Jack Dawson in
Titanic is Leonardo unless somebody made a reboot instead of a pre/sequel. The epochal Matrix Quadrilogy explained the change of looks for the Oracle.
Three people have played Kirk now, no deepf*king required.
Bear in mind that Pine’s Kirk is from an alternate timeline. So it’s only SNW that goes the new route in the Kirk example.
I'm sure there's some excuse for why that doesn't matter either.
The Bond movies aren’t one big continuity. Once we hit the blond Bond, he remained the same in the movies and the supporting cast became specific actors, like Judy Drench being Boss.