Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihuxs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!vax135!houxz!houxm!ihnp4!ihuxs!okie From: okie@ihuxs.UUCP (B.K. Cobb) Newsgroups: net.startrek Subject: Re: Saavik & Spock; Katra. Sex. - (nf) Message-ID: <553@ihuxs.UUCP> Date: Thu, 21-Jun-84 16:30:36 EDT Article-I.D.: ihuxs.553 Posted: Thu Jun 21 16:30:36 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 22-Jun-84 08:16:26 EDT References: <18200004@smu.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 27 Bravo, smu!jay! I've gotten a little tired of the obsession with Spock, Saavik, and sex on Genesis by some netters. Everything I've ever read and/or seen does *not* make it necessary for Spock and Saavik to have had sex, whether once or several times. A careful viewing of the "Amok Time" episode, and the careful reading of any number of stories/novels/etc. concerning that period of time, points to the necessity of a young Vulcan being "paired" with another. After that, he eventually goes through the "plak tow" (the blood fever) and must eventually mate. But Spock himself stated that he had put it off, avoided it for some time. Perhaps Saavik's embarrasment in the final scenes is due to the fact that she "paired" with the Genesis Spock to ease him through plak tow and she is now wondering if the restored Spock will know that he is paired to her. I don't think it's because she made Vulcan whoopee and is now in a family way; what possible reason would there be for either of their characters to have to go through something like that, anyway? On a related issue, here's something to consider. We all know that the Genesis planet turned out completely different from all expectations, and that bizarre things happened thereon. What if the regeneration of Spock also changed some of his essential "properties" -- such as the amok urge and the mating pattern? Chew it over and spit it back at me. BKCobb inhp4!ihuxs!okie