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From: okie@ihuxs.UUCP (B.K. Cobb)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Saavik & Spock; Katra. Sex. - (nf)
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Date: Thu, 21-Jun-84 16:30:36 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 21 16:30:36 1984
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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
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