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Leonard Nimoy, William Shatner, James Doohan, DeForest Kelley, Merritt Butrick, and Robin Curtis in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984)

Robin Curtis: Saavik

Star Trek III: The Search for Spock

Robin Curtis credited as playing...

Saavik

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  • McCoy: [1:18:52] Rapid aging. All genetic functions highly accelerated.
  • Kirk: What about his mind?
  • McCoy: His mind is a void. It seems, Admiral, that I've got all his marbles.
  • Kirk: Is there anything we can do?
  • Saavik: Only one thing, sir. Get him off this planet. His aging is part of what's going on around us.
  • Saavik: [to David] How many have paid the price for your impatience? How many have died? How much damage have you done, and what is yet to come?
  • Kruge: [1:00:44] I've come a long way for the power of Genesis, and what do I find? A weakling human, a Vulcan boy, and a woman!
  • Saavik: My lord, we are survivors of a doomed expedition. This planet will destroy itself in hours. The Genesis experiment is a failure.
  • Kruge: A failure? The most destructive force ever created? You will tell me the secret of the Genesis torpedo.
  • Saavik: I have no knowledge.
  • Kruge: Then I hope pain's something you enjoy.
  • David Marcus: This planet's aging in surges.
  • Saavik: And Spock with it. It seems they're joined together.
  • David Marcus: They are.
  • Saavik: How long?
  • David Marcus: Days... maybe hours. I'm sorry.
  • Saavik: It will be hardest on Spock. Soon he will feel the burning of his Vulcan blood.
  • David Marcus: I don't understand.
  • Saavik: Pon farr. Vulcan males must endure it every seventh year of their adult life.
  • Captain Esteban: Grissom to Saavik. We're picking up radiation from the life form.
  • Saavik: Affirmative, Captain. Our readings are well below danger level.
  • Captain Esteban: Very well. Exercise caution, Lieutenant. This landing is captain's discretion, and I'm the one who's out on a limb.
  • Saavik: I'll try to remember that, Captain.
  • Saavik: All units functional. Recorders are on. Scanning sector 1. Foliage in fully-developed state of growth. Temperature, 22.2 Celsius.
  • David Marcus: Sector 2 indicating desert terrain. Minimal vegetation. Temperature, 39.4.
  • Saavik: Sector 3, subtropical vegetation. Temperature decreasing rapidly.
  • David Marcus: [looking at the monitor over her shoulder] It's snow. Snow in the same sector. Fantastic.
  • Saavik: Fascinating.
  • David Marcus: All the varieties of land and weather known to Earth within a few hours' walk.
  • Saavik: [getting an alert] Metallic mass.
  • David Marcus: Close-range scan. A photon tube. Gravitational fields were in flux. It must have soft-landed.
  • Captain Esteban: [to his communications officer] Encode to Starfleet: "Captain Spock's tube located on Genesis' surface."
  • Saavik: We have reached the destination planet at .035.
  • Captain Esteban: Very well, Lieutenant. Helm, execute standard orbital approach.
  • Helm: Standard orbit. Aye, sir.
  • Captain Esteban: Communications. Send a coded message for Starfleet Commander, priority 1. "Federation science vessel Grissom arriving Genesis Planet, Mutara sector, to begin research. J.T. Esteban, commanding."
  • Communications: Aye, sir. Coding now.
  • Captain Esteban: Dr. Marcus, it's your planet.
  • David Marcus: Begin scanning, please.
  • [whispering in her ear]
  • David Marcus: This is where the fun begins, Saavik.
  • Saavik: Just like your father; so human.
  • Saavik: It's time for total truth between us. This planet is not what you intended or hoped for, is it?
  • David Marcus: Not exactly.
  • Saavik: Why?
  • David Marcus: I used protomatter in the Genesis matrix.
  • Saavik: Protomatter. An unstable substance which every ethical scientist in the galaxy has denounced as dangerously unpredictable.
  • David Marcus: It was the only way to solve certain problems.
  • Saavik: So, like your father, you changed the rules.
  • David Marcus: If I hadn't, it might have been years or never.
  • Saavik: How many have paid the price for your impatience? How many have died? How much damage have you done? And what is yet to come?
  • David Marcus: I don't believe it.
  • Captain Esteban: What is it?
  • Saavik: If equipment is functioning properly, indications are an animal life-form.
  • Captain Esteban: You said there wouldn't be any.
  • David Marcus: There shouldn't be any.
  • Saavik: Cross-referenced and verified. An unidentifiable life-form reading.
  • Communications: Do you wish to advise Starfleet, sir?
  • Captain Esteban: Wait a minute. We don't know what we're talking about here.
  • David Marcus: Why don't we beam it up?
  • Captain Esteban: Oh, no, you don't. Regulations specifically state nothing shall be beamed aboard until danger of contamination has been eliminated.
  • Saavik: Captain, the logical alternative is obvious. Beaming down to the surface is permitted.
  • Captain Esteban: If the captain decides that the mission is vital and reasonably free of danger.
  • David Marcus: Captain, please, we'll take the risk, but we've got to find out what it is.
  • Saavik: Or who.
  • David Marcus: There are your life-forms. These were microbes on the tube's surface. We shot them here from Enterprise. They were fruitful and multiplied.
  • Saavik: But how could they have evolved so quickly?
  • David Marcus: [opening the tube] Saavik?
  • [taking out and handing her a black cloak]
  • David Marcus: What is it?
  • Saavik: Spock's burial robe.
  • Saavik: [1:09:32] Admiral, David is dead
  • Kirk: Klingon bastard, youkilled my son! Klingon bastard you killed my son. Klingon bastard.
  • Kruge: There are two more prisoners. Do you want them killed, too? Surrender your vessel
  • Kirk: All right. All right damn you. All right. Give me a minute to inform my crew
  • Saavik: I give two minutes for you and your gallant crew

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