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From: caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Saavik
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Date: Sun, 16-Jun-85 15:57:19 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jun 16 15:57:19 1985
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Summary: 

<.> A while ago I asked which actress, if any, is going to play Saavik.
<.> Robin Curtis or Kirstie Allen? (Please let it be K.A.)
<.
<.Sorry to break your day, but according to information in the
<.letter column of the latest issue of DC's STAR TREK comic,
<.Robin Curtis is returning as Saavik.
<.	And by the way, that's Kirstie Alley, not Allen.

Recently I watched all four Star Trek movies while writing an article
covering the history of Laser videodiscs.

Perhaps we are seeing another example of the multiple Dr. Who syndrome,
where a person's favorite Doctor is usually the first one he became
familiar with.

Since I don't watch TWOK too often (after all, it is a bummer to see Spock
wasted) I never grew too attached to Saavik or a particular actress playing
Saavik.  There was some rather interesting Saavik background in the
novelizations, but none of that came out in the movie.

I find Curtis's Saavik more exotic and strange, which is (I suppose) more
suitable for a science fiction flick than something that is more easily
recognizeable.

One point in Alley's favor: she certainly has a closer resemblance to
the voluptuous Vulcan priestesses seen in ST3.  But then I have
Slaughterhouse Five on CAV LaserDisc, which takes care of that department.

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