Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!mcnc!decvax!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-akov68!boyajian From: boyajian@akov68.DEC (JERRY BOYAJIAN) Newsgroups: net.startrek Subject: re: re: Saavik Message-ID: <2873@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Tue, 25-Jun-85 08:57:26 EDT Article-I.D.: decwrl.2873 Posted: Tue Jun 25 08:57:26 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 30-Jun-85 01:47:04 EDT Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: DEC Engineering Network Lines: 50 > 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) UUCP: {decvax|ihnp4|allegra|ucbvax|...}!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-akov68!boyajian ARPA: boyajian%akov68.DEC@DECWRL.ARPA soon to be: boyajian%akov68.DEC@DECWRL.COM