I completely agree with you about Saavik. The Borg have more personality than the Robin Curtiss version of the character.Biggest mistake by Nimoy during TSFS is turning one of the most interesting new characters into a carbon copy of Spock with longer curly hair... I know this is debated again and again but for my Saavik will always be Kirsty Alley and the Vulcan in the next film is some other character entirely (this is in part for TWOK being generally my favourite of the TOS movies so its not exactly unbiased).
That would have been a pretty interesting twist on the Dax relationship with the Sisko clan utterly turning it on its head depending on how far the relationship went.Ezri/Jake. I've been shipping them for ten years now, dammit.![]()
For Sisko Snr his mentor turned closest friend over 2 lifetimes could have ended up his daughter in-law!
As for Ezri/Jake... could be interesting if something happened to Ezri and the Dax symbiont ended up in a male host. Then Ben Sisko's old mentor/friend could turn out to be his son-in-law!