Robin Curtis returns to carry out a misplaced scene from Star Trek IV: The Voyage Residence. Directed by Leonard Nimoy, Star Trek IV is affectionately referred to as “the one with the whales,” and the 1986 comedic romp was the highest-grossing Star Trek film till J.J. Abrams’ 2009 reboot.
Star Trek IV was Robin Curtis’ second outing as Lieutenant Saavik after she changed Kirstie Alley in Star Trek III: The Seek for Spock. Sadly, Saavik was solely briefly in Star Trek IV‘s first act, and he or she was left behind on Vulcan when the previous crew of the USS Enterprise returned to Earth.
Additionally left behind from Star Trek IV was a scene through which Admiral James T. Kirk (William Shatner) asks Saavik about her being pregnant with Captain Spock’s (Leonard Nimoy) child. On Roddenberry podcasts’ The Trek Recordsdata hosted by Larry Nemecek, Robin Curtis recreates her Star Trek IV misplaced scene, with John Champion as Kirk. Watch it beneath:
Excised from Star Trek IV: The Voyage Residence had been particulars that Lt. Saavik turned pregnant after having pon faar with a younger Spock to avoid wasting his life on the doomed Genesis Planet in Star Trek III: The Seek for Spock. Saavik and Kirk’s Star Trek IV scene was a part of the primary two script drafts however was unnoticed of the taking pictures script and was by no means filmed.
Director Leonard Nimoy was reportedly uncomfortable with the subplot of Saavik carrying Spock’s child. By leaving it out of Star Trek IV, Spock and Saavik’s little one did not change into canon. Certainly, that subplot was not pursued in any additional Star Trek movie or in Leonard Nimoy’s later appearances as Spock in Star Trek: The Subsequent Era or J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek motion pictures.
In 2024, Roddenberry Archives and OTOY produced 765874 – Unification, which reunites Captain Kirk and Spock. Directed by Carlos Baena, Unification allowed Robin Curtis to play Saavik as soon as extra, her grownup son with Spock, Sorak (Mark Chinnery). Though not official canon, Unification provides Kirk, Spock, and Star Trek followers a way of non secular closure.
Saavik’s last canonical look was in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Residence, however Star Trek: Picard season 3 named a shuttlecraft “Saavik,” and ancillary supplies revealed that Saavik turned Captain of the USS Titan. The Trek Recordsdata provides a glimpse of a robust misplaced second between Saavik and Kirk that tells extra of the Vulcan Lieutenant’s lacking story.
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November 27, 1986
- Runtime
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118 Minutes
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Admiral/Captain James T. Kirk
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Catherine Hicks
Dr. Gillian Taylor