12-28-2022, 11:33 AM
(This post was last modified: 12-28-2022, 03:06 PM by FaceInTheCrowd.)
It wouldn't have changed Alley's portrayal, it would just have provided an explanation for it.
I'm guessing the Alley-praising articles you've seen were on fan sites like Screenrant. The content on these sites are basically clickbait, the site publishes articles by people with wild theories or serious cases of fan worship, so that people who disagree with them will post opposing comments, thus generating traffic for all the ads.
Saavik "replaces" the Chekov from TOS (not the more experienced one in the movies), in that there needs to be a warm body sitting at the navigator seat next to Sulu, and because there needs to be someone for the more senior characters (Kirk and Spock) to explain things to. Like Sherlock Holmes' Dr. Watson, Batman's Robin and all those Dr. Who companions. She sets the stage for the running theme of the Kobayashi Maru by failing the test at the Academy, she quotes the regulation that Kirk ignores, resulting in the first attack on the Enterprise, she quotes another regulation so Spock can explain his "exaggeration" of repair times and she points out the problems the ship will encounter within the nebula. What's inexplicable to me is why she's in the Regula I search party instead of a couple of big phaser-wielding security people.
When they go to the Regula I transporter, McCoy says the dead people bought escape time for Genesis with their lives. I presume this means that the team wiped the databanks while the Drs. Marcus beamed the device down to the cave, but Khan arrived before they could beam down as well.
Saavik probably wasn't specifically needed in STIII. Everything she did could just as well have been done by some new character from the Grissom's crew. Well, except for the ponn farr. But that also was needless.
I'm guessing the Alley-praising articles you've seen were on fan sites like Screenrant. The content on these sites are basically clickbait, the site publishes articles by people with wild theories or serious cases of fan worship, so that people who disagree with them will post opposing comments, thus generating traffic for all the ads.
Saavik "replaces" the Chekov from TOS (not the more experienced one in the movies), in that there needs to be a warm body sitting at the navigator seat next to Sulu, and because there needs to be someone for the more senior characters (Kirk and Spock) to explain things to. Like Sherlock Holmes' Dr. Watson, Batman's Robin and all those Dr. Who companions. She sets the stage for the running theme of the Kobayashi Maru by failing the test at the Academy, she quotes the regulation that Kirk ignores, resulting in the first attack on the Enterprise, she quotes another regulation so Spock can explain his "exaggeration" of repair times and she points out the problems the ship will encounter within the nebula. What's inexplicable to me is why she's in the Regula I search party instead of a couple of big phaser-wielding security people.
When they go to the Regula I transporter, McCoy says the dead people bought escape time for Genesis with their lives. I presume this means that the team wiped the databanks while the Drs. Marcus beamed the device down to the cave, but Khan arrived before they could beam down as well.
Saavik probably wasn't specifically needed in STIII. Everything she did could just as well have been done by some new character from the Grissom's crew. Well, except for the ponn farr. But that also was needless.