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From: boyajian@akov68.DEC (JERRY BOYAJIAN)
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Subject: re: re: Saavik
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Date: Tue, 25-Jun-85 08:57:26 EDT
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> From:	omen!caf	(Chuck Forsberg)

> Recently I watched all four Star Trek movies while writing an article
> covering the history of Laser videodiscs.

Four?? Is it possible that you consider the two different versions of the
first film as separate movies?

> Perhaps we are seeing another example of the multiple Dr. Who syndrome,
> where a person's favorite Doctor is usually the first one he became
> familiar with.

I usually find this true with music. Oftentimes I feel that the first
version of a song I hear becomes the "correct" one, the yardstick by
which I measure other versions.

> Since I don't watch TWOK too often (after all, it is a bummer to see Spock
> wasted) I never grew too attached to Saavik or a particular actress playing
> Saavik.
> [...]
> I find Curtis's Saavik more exotic and strange, which is (I suppose) more
> suitable for a science fiction flick than something that is more easily
> recognizeable.

Funny. Some many moons ago, I posted a message explaining why I preferred
Kirstie Alley to Robin Curtis, and the basic thrust of it was that I find
Alley to look 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).

> One point in Alley's favor: she certainly has a closer resemblance to
> the voluptuous Vulcan priestesses seen in ST3.  But then I have
> Slaughterhouse Five on CAV LaserDisc, which takes care of that department.

I wasn't aware that Valerie Perrine played a Vulcan priestess in
SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE.  :-)


--- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Maynard, MA)

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