So, the original crew film series ended. BUT canon left out a few important questions about Saavik. So. What does everybody think?
Poll The troubles with Saavik
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Myself, I think she is half Romulan because I liked the book with her origin story, and she wasn't impreganted by Zombie Spock because he is a Vulcan-Human hybrid therefore sterile.
I am on the fence about the actresses. Both were great.
I am so very sorry Nimoy and Meyer did not achieve to have her appear as the traitor in VI (any of Alley, Currtis and Kim Cattrall would have been fine to me)
I am on the fence about the actresses. Both were great.
I am so very sorry Nimoy and Meyer did not achieve to have her appear as the traitor in VI (any of Alley, Currtis and Kim Cattrall would have been fine to me)
To me, Alley's performance makes a lot more sense if she's half Romulan, but Curtis's performance is more in line with a full Vulcan.
Still since nothing is said on screen to rule either out, I like to go with half-romulan, which creates another bond between her and Spock and his mentorship of her. Too bad they didn't have Saavik in TUC like Meyer wanted.
No baby.
Still since nothing is said on screen to rule either out, I like to go with half-romulan, which creates another bond between her and Spock and his mentorship of her. Too bad they didn't have Saavik in TUC like Meyer wanted.
No baby.
I go with half-Romulan just because I find it more interesting (especially after reading the novelizations of the films) than I do if she's full Vulcan, especially given Curtis's regrettably wooden (possibly at the direction of Nimoy) performance.
I never cared for the idea that Saavik is pregnant at the end; perhaps I would feel differently if the franchise had done anything particularly notable with that theory.
I never cared for the idea that Saavik is pregnant at the end; perhaps I would feel differently if the franchise had done anything particularly notable with that theory.
Only now I notice I wrote 'son' on the respective option. I regret the oversight. Could be a daughter. Or a velociraptor.
Full Vulcan.
Not pregnant. Looks like Alley and Curtis.
Not pregnant. Looks like Alley and Curtis.
Half-Rom, not pregnant, and Kirstie Alley, although I liked Robin Curtis too.
Someone above floated the idea of Spock being sterile as a hybrid. In all my years of Trekkin' (pretty much all of them as far back as I have real memories), that idea had never actually occurred to me. Mind blown!
Someone above floated the idea of Spock being sterile as a hybrid. In all my years of Trekkin' (pretty much all of them as far back as I have real memories), that idea had never actually occurred to me. Mind blown!
There's an issue Trek hasn't dealt with. B'Elanna Torres, for instance, has a daughter despite being half-Human and half-Klingon. Though her Klingon redundancies might explain that.
There is much to discuss. From the top of my head:
- Trip (Human) and Tpol (Vulk) had a baby but she was inviable. This was before Spok's time
- Kehelyr was Klingon/Human but she told Troi it took a lot of 24th Century medicine for her to be born
- Janeway and Paris had tadpoles
I also read that female hybrid animals are more likely to be fertile than males.
According to Phlox, Elizabeth died because the people who cloned her did a lousy job of it.
Wasn't there a TOS episode where an entire sterile planet wanted the Enterprise crew to reproduce with? or was it TNG? Wesley episode I dont recall. Imagine a race of Wesley descendants
She is half-Romulan. She just wasn’t out as being half-Romulan. Since that would have consequences (hi Simon Tarsus).
She is pregnant with Spock’s child. It explains why we never see her again, as she has the child in secret. Though, if this happened and they had also kept Saavik as the traitor in TUC, I wonder how it would have all played out?
She looks like Kirstie Alley, however, had they brought back Robin Curits as Saavik, it would have been much easier to accept that Saavik looked like Kirstie Alley in the cadet years, and that Saavik looked like Robin Curtis in the officer years.
She is pregnant with Spock’s child. It explains why we never see her again, as she has the child in secret. Though, if this happened and they had also kept Saavik as the traitor in TUC, I wonder how it would have all played out?
She looks like Kirstie Alley, however, had they brought back Robin Curits as Saavik, it would have been much easier to accept that Saavik looked like Kirstie Alley in the cadet years, and that Saavik looked like Robin Curtis in the officer years.
