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From: lmaher@uokvax.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Saavik's *pon farr* ? - (nf)
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Date: Tue, 19-Jun-84 01:25:00 EDT
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uokvax!lmaher    Jun 19 00:25:00 1984

/***** uokvax:net.startrek / rdin!perl /  7:27 pm  Jun  7, 1984 */
>In a recent issue of the comic, Saavik is shown going through *pon farr*, but in
>TSFS, she mentions to David that *pon farr* is something that Vulcan *males* go
>through every seven years of their adult life. (And don't say that the females
>have a different cycle; I won't buy that one)
>
>				  --- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC Maynard, MA)

Why not?  It's true for humans!
/* ---------- */

     Because Vulcans mate for life, and  different  cycles  would
cause  obvious  problems.   No, I believe Saavik knows what she's
talking about, and DC Comics just messed up completely, since  no
one told them better.

     But I wonder about Romulans.  Since they are  still  warlike
and  have not suppressed their emotions, my guess is that they do
not suffer Pon Farr, but are more like humans in this respect (Re
the Romulan captain in The Enterprise Incident).  Since Saavik is
half Romulan and half Vulcan, I don't see why  any  Vulcan  would
want  to  marry her, unless to get into her adopted (prestigious)
family - does anyone have  a  reliable  (not  DC)  source  as  to
whether she really was brought up by Sarek?  I find it unlikely.

	Carl			(formerly uok!crigney)
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