There Can Be Only One

[MarianLH]

If you could graft Saavik-Alley's acting onto Saavik-Curtis' look, you'd have the perfect Saavik, IMO.

My opinion too.

But was that even canon anymore? That stuff wasn't even put back into the Director's/Special Edition DVD from a few years back. Isn't Saavik officially just a full Vulcan so far as formal canon is concerned?

Since "canon" is defined as whatever has appeared onscreen, and nothing was ever explicitly said onscreen one way or another, it could go either way.

Kirstie Alley's Saavik was a trainee in command school, so why is she all of a sudden a science officer on the Grissom less than two months later in STIII?

Since she was already a lieutenant in Star Trek II, it has been suggested that she was attending some kind of command course for junior officers, rather than being a cadet. From there, I don't think it's too much of a jump to science officer on a tiny second-line ship like Grissom.


Marian