Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ut-sally.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!gatech!ut-sally!barnett From: barnett@ut-sally.UUCP (Lewis Barnett) Newsgroups: net.startrek Subject: re: re: Saavik Message-ID: <2193@ut-sally.UUCP> Date: Wed, 26-Jun-85 01:01:29 EDT Article-I.D.: ut-sally.2193 Posted: Wed Jun 26 01:01:29 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 28-Jun-85 03:23:28 EDT References: <2873@decwrl.UUCP> Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas Lines: 25 > 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). > > --- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Maynard, MA) > I think jayembee hit the sucker right on the head here. I'll go slightly out on a limb here and talk a bit about the novelization; Saavik is a Romulan/Vulcan fusion. As we all know, the Romulans are a bloodthirsty and highly agressive race. If you think Spock had a tough time living up to the Vulcan ideal of logical precision, imagine what someone would go through whose racial heritage was even bloodier and less rational than us humans! I think Alley captured this lightly integrated dichotomy almost perfectly -- there was a great deal more intensity in her Saavik than in Curtis's. As JB postulated, she was boring. Lewis Barnett,CS Dept, Painter Hall 3.28, Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX 78712 -- barnett@ut-sally.ARPA, barnett@ut-sally.UUCP, {ihnp4,harvard,seismo,gatech,ctvax}!ut-sally!barnett