johnc@dartvax.UUCP (06/12/84)
> What was saavik (sp) doing with young Spock?
I believe that he was going through something called "pon farr"
(sp) wich is probably analgous to puberty in humans, but I
can't be certain. Afterall, what human could be certain about
what's hapening in a green blooded vulcan's body? :->>>
--johnchutch@shark.UUCP (Stephen Hutchison) (06/17/84)
<Kroikha!> | The bit about Savik helping out the young Spock going through "pains" | was awkward. What's going on there? What she supposed to do?? I will treat this like an ignorant question asked by someone who is either unfamiliar with Star Trek or who has NO sense of subtlety left after watching such modern gems as "Officer and a Gentleman". Saavik was helping Spock through the pains attending an accelerated case of the Pon Farr, which is when Vulcans go into heat. They MUST mate, or they will die. Apparently Saavik was able to either lessen the severity, or relieve the problem altogether. The latter is unlikely. She was not attuned to the mind of Spock, and the Vulcans as a telepathic species apparently are unable to mate without mind-touch. Spock would have developed another mind independantly of the mature mind McKoy was carrying, given time. As it was, he was a baby, albeit a very logical Vulcan one, in a body which was maturing and ageing far too fast. Hutch