SANDER%DEC-MARLBORO@sri-unix.UUCP (06/28/84)
From: Warren Sander <SANDER at DEC-MARLBORO> ******** SPOILER ???? ******** It seems to me that everyone talking about Pon Far and SPOCK are missing a subtle point that can be derived from the book as I will attempt to elaborate on: 1) Savik and David spent one/many nights together while on the Enterprise and the Grissom. 2) Savik and Spock spent a night together when he was in Pon Far (if you read the book Triangle and take it for pseudo-gospil then you can see that is Spock makes Vulcan love the Pon Far breaks and he is normal again) 3) Savik sees Spock as a father figure and is constantly tring to get him to praise her (etc) 4) David is killed on the Genisis planet 5) Spock is now pseudo-ok (Will he remember what happened to him on Genisis or will he have McCoys garbled thoughts for the same period???) Anyway this leads us to ST IV which during the courtmarshal and/or award ceremony Savik will come to the conclusion that she is pregnent (maybe Vulcan women only take 1 to 2 months to have a baby instead of 9????) and the child will be part Romulan, part Vulcan and part Human. The question becomes is the father David (making Kirk a Grandpa) or Spock????? This might be an interesting little sub plot for Kirk to think about while he is trying to find the guy who defended him the last time he got into trouble (Samual something (from Court Marshal)).............. Warren Sander [SANDER at DEC-MARLBORO] --------
burton@inuxd.UUCP (Thomas Burton) (07/02/84)
<one small bug for netnews, one giant bug for netland!> So many people have been speculating about Saavik and Spock and the possible pregnancy; now someone else has brought up the book, with the love scene between Saavik and David! If (and I mean IF) you want to use the book as a source for information, at least use ALL the information that's there; just before David and Saavik go at it, David makes a point, something similar to: David: "Um, where I'm from its polite to point out that I've passed all my exams in Bio control" Saavik: "Yes, I always thought the need to control the reproductive ability amusing, until now" This is heavily paraphrased, as I borrowed the book from a friend a few weeks ago and have since returned it. However, the point that was made early in the book was that apparently all humans and apparantly vulcans (maybe? at least Saavik) learn early to exercise control over their reproductive system. IF (notice the if) you want to take the book as Gospel, then not only is Saavik not pregnant by David, she also is not pregnant by Spock. Just thought I'd add more fuel to the controversy. Doug Burton ATT-CP Indianapolis inuxg!burton