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From: johnw@astroatc.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: re: re: Saavik
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Date: Thu, 27-Jun-85 02:14:38 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 27 02:14:38 1985
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> Alley looks much more exotic [-ly beautiful] than Curtis. Curtis to me
> looks like a human being with pointed ears; Alley (and Nimoy) doesn't.
> 	Secondly, though it sounds strange, I thought Curtis was too flat
> [no, I don't mean *that*!] and unemotional. Vulcans, after all, aren't
> *without* emotions, they just control them. What makes Spock, Saavik,
> Sarek, et al. interesting is seeing the emotion seething just below the
> surface. If they were completely unemotional, they'd be boring. Anyways, I
> think Alley had just the right undercurrent of emotion in her portrayal of
> Saavik (I can't, for instance, see Curtis crying at Spock's funeral).
> 
As I understand it (from a friend who has ALL the ST books, Saavik
is half Vulcan and half Romulan.  Since the Romulans are emotional,
(and perhaps women more so than men) Saavik's emotions are not out
of line for her.  I feel they would be if she where a pure Vulcan.

		John Wardale and my 3 cows from Wisconsin
			{any civilized machine} !uwvax!astroatc!johnw

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