Dave-Platt@LADC (05/29/85)
From: Dave Platt <Dave-Platt%LADC@CISL-SERVICE-MULTICS.ARPA> What my ears heard (and, I believe, what the ST-III novelization says) is "kilogaams" - something else entirely! Seemed to correspond roughly to kilometres, plus-or-minus a factor of two or three. Re Saavik not telling Kirk why Spock's body should not be "buried in space" - the novelizations of both ST-II and -III (but neither movie, I believe) went much detail about Saavik's background. She's not pure Vulcan, but is instead a Vulcan/Romulan hybrid, abandoned on a failed Romulan colony planet and rescued by a search party lead by Spock. As she wasn't raised on Vulcan, it's not too surprising that she'd be unfamiliar with the details of Vulcan philosophy, mysticism, etc. A pity that SF movies (and most movies in other genres, also) can't include the same amount of information as the novel they're derived from (or that is derived from them...) without being uncommercially lengthy.