From: utzoo!utcsrgv!utcsstat!ian Newsgroups: net.movies Title: Mr. Saavik in ST2 Article-I.D.: utcsstat.172 Posted: Thu Jun 10 13:50:33 1982 Received: Thu Jun 10 15:39:51 1982 Saavik is referred to as Mr. Saavik as a direct continuation of a tradition in western nations' navies of referring to junior officers as `Mr. Smith', `Mr. Jones', etc - for many centuries they were all male, and the tradition stuck. Projecting this tradition into the 23d century must have been done by an ex-navy man (person?) who knows how long it takes to get the navy to change its ways! Ian Darwin U of Toronto