Saavik

**Saavik** was a female Vulcan-Romulan hybrid who served in Starfleet during the late 23rd century and throughout the 24th century. (*Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan*; *Star Trek III: The Search for Spock*; *ST* novel: *Vulcan's Heart*; *ST* novel: *Vulcan's Soul*)

Saavik was born in 2264 on the planet Hellguard, an abandoned Romulan colony. She was discovered there by Captain Spock in 2274. who took her in as his ward. Spock would eventually take her to Vulcan, where he would raise her with the help of his parents, Sarek and Amanda. (*TOS* novel: *The Pandora Principle*)

Saavik chose to follow Spock's footsteps, and entered Starfleet Academy in 2281. Despite rocky beginnings, and being viewed as the enemy by some of her classmates; despite this, she did make friends with some of the other cadets, including Peter Preston. She excelled in her studies, and was granted her commission as lieutenant junior grade while still at the Academy. (*Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan*; *TOS* novel: *The Captain's Daughter*)

In 2385, Saavik served as navigator aboard the USS *Enterprise* for her cadet training cruise; the ship was soon diverted to answer a distress call from the Regula I spacelab, and became embroiled in the Genesis incident when Khan Noonien Singh sought revenge on Admiral James T. Kirk. During that incident, Captain Spock was killed, and Saavik lost her mentor and father figure. (*Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan*)

She transferred to the USS *Grissom* as part of a scientific team investigating the newly-formed Genesis Planet alongside Dr. David Marcus. When the ship was destroyed by a Klingon bird-of-prey and Marcus was killed on the surface, Saavik became the sole survivor of the *Grissom'*s crew. (*Star Trek III: The Search for Spock*)

Afterwards, she remained on Vulcan for a time, before returning to active duty. During the late 2280s into the early 2290s, she served aboard the USS *Enterprise*-A; she took over the helm position when Hikaru Sulu was promoted to Captain in 2290 and assumed command of the USS *Excelsior*. Prior to 2293, she transferred away from the *Enterprise* after a disagreement with Captain Spock over his new protege, Valeris. (*TOS* comic: *Debt of Honor*, *Tests of Courage*, "A Question of Loyalty")

When Nyota Uhura succeeded Spock as captain of the USS *Intrepid II* in 2296, Saavik accepted her request to serve as the ship's chief science officer. (*TOS* novel: *Vulcan's Heart*; *Star Trek: Pendragon*)

In 2411, she was an eye-witness to the events of the Tomed Incident. (*TOS* novel: *Vulcan's Heart*)

*In the* Starship Excelsior *episode "Tomorrow's Excelsior", Saavik became first officer of the* Excelsior *after the death of Janice Rand in 2311.*
By 2329, she held the rank of Commander and served as first officer aboard the USS *Armstrong*. That same year, she and Spock were betrothed in a traditional ceremony on Vulcan.

She remained aboard the *Armstrong* as XO until at least 2344, when she was tasked by Captain Uhura (by then with Starfleet Intelligence) with the rescue of Ambassador Spock from Romulus. She and Spock would marry on Vulcan after the incident. (*ST* novel: *Vulcan's Heart*)

Saavik eventually rose to the rank of captain, and commanded several science vessels. However, when the Dominion War broke out in 2373, she requested reassignment to combat duty, and was given command of the USS *Alliance*, a refit *Excelsior*-class starship. She remained in command of the *Alliance* until at least 2379. (*ST* novel: *Vulcan's Soul*; *Star Trek: Titan* novel: *Taking Wing*)

## Appendices

### Possibilities

* Varying continuities show Saavik becoming first officer aboard either the *Excelsior* or *Enterprise-B*, and even becoming captain of the *Enterprise-B* by the 2320s. However, this may conflict with the captaincy of Demora Sulu. It is unclear, which, if any of these versions of Saavik's history are part of *Pendragon* continuity.

### External links

* Saavik article at ***Memory Alpha***, the canon *Star Trek* wiki.
* Saavik article at ***Memory Beta***, the non-canon *Star Trek* wiki.
* Saavik article at ***Star Trek Expanded Universe***, the fanon and fanworks *Star Trek* wiki.