Saavik

**Saavik** was a half-Romulan/half-Vulcan woman who overcame her difficult childhood to become a successful Starfleet officer and wife to Ambassador Spock.

## Personal Info

### Parents:

Sivak (biological), Sarek (adoptive) (biological), Amanda Grayson (adoptive)

## Early Years

Saavik was born on the planet Hellguard in 2264. Saavik had a harsh childhood living on Hellguard, a planet which bordered the Romulan Neutral Zone. In the Romulan language, her name means "little cat." Her life changed in 2274 when the Vulcan vessel *Symmetry* arrived and she was rescued by Commander Spock. Spock took a leave of absence and began to teach Saavik the Vulcan way of life, but had great difficulty with her. After a year of living on Dantria IV, Spock decided to take Saavik to Vulcan where he would care for her with the help of Sarek and Amanda.

In accordance with Vulcan traditions, Sarek arranged for Saavik to be bonded to a young Vulcan boy named Xon, whose original bond-mate had tragically died in an accident.

Saavik was given an excellent upbringing on Vulcan and soon embraced the Vulcan way of life, but decided that she wanted to follow Spock into Starfleet a

## Starfleet Academy

Saavik entered Starfleet Academy in 2281, assigned to live in Residence Complex Three. Her time at the Academy was not the easiest, and many of her classmates viewed her as an enemy, but she became a valuable resource for Starfleet in interpreting intelligence data and putting many myths to rest about Romulan psychology. She also forged a friendship with Cadet Peter Preston, whom she tutored in Advanced Theoretical Mathematics.

## Starfleet Career

Saavik was granted her commission while still studying at Starfleet Academy. In 2285, as a Lieutenant, junior grade, she served as navigator of the USS *Enterprise* under Admiral James T. Kirk on their mission to recover the Genesis Device.

After Spock's death, she transferred to the USS *Grissom*, along with Doctor David Marcus. The two discovered the reborn and rapidly maturing Spock on the surface of the Genesis Planet, where they were stranded after the destruction of the *Grissom* by Klingons. Saavik helped guide the young Spock through the *pon farr*, and accompanied him, and the former crew of the *Enterprise*, back to Vulcan to be rejoined with his *katra*. Saavik remained on Vulcan following Spock's departure, wishing Kirk well on his journey back to Earth.

The following year, 2286, following the promotion of Hikaru Sulu  Saavik rejoined the *Enterprise* crew, this time serving on the *Enterprise*-A full time.

In 2289, Saavik participated in a secret, extralegal mission aboard the USS *Enterprise* NCC-1701-A involving Commander Kor of the Klingon Empire and a representative of the Romulan Star Empire, in an attempt to end the threat of an extragalactic life-form responsible for the destruction of the USS *Farragut* some thirty-two years earlier . she replaced Sulu on board the *Enterprise*. Kirk had some trouble in dealing with this change. Kirk relented his attitude towards Saavik, allowing her to acompany him on an away team to investigate a wormhole stabilised by the Klingons. There they found a highly-armed Klingon space station. Finding that the Klingon leadership had been influenced into attacking the Federation by Excalbians, Saavik acompanied Kirk to Organia, where he persuaded the Excalibians to release their influence on the galactic leadership and fight the Organians instead.

Soon after, Saavik began to feel the effects of *pon farr*, the Vulcan mating urge. She sought out Xon, who was working undercover for Starfleet Intelligence with the Romulan Star Empire, to the galactic barrier where the Romulans were trying to duplicate the experiment that gave Gary Mitchell his god-like powers. With the assistance of the *Enterprise*, Saavik and Xon defeated the Romulan plot. With the needs of their *Pon-Farr* sated, Saavik and Xon returned to their respective assignments.

On stardate 8625.2, Lieutenant Saavik and Captain Spock were part of a diplomatic mission to Mardelva. During an attempted coup on the planet, their shuttle was caught in the crossfire and crashed on the planet's surface.

On stardate 8748.4, Saavik was assigned an undercover mission into Romulan space to retrieve Professor David Erikson, who was attempting to defect from the Federation.

In the year 2291, she was present when the *Enterprise*-A was sent to the planet Mestiko to retrieve a weapon stolen by a local terrorist group called the Torye.

She served on the *Enterprise-A* for until 2293 before a disagreement with Spock about his new protégé, Valeris, prompted her to request a transfer.

In 2293, Saavik attended James T. Kirk's memorial service in the grounds of Starfleet Academy, along with many other former *Enterprise* crewmembers.

## After the *Enterprise*

Saavik was an eye witness to the events of the Tomed Incident in 2311. During that time, a child ran from her in terror at the sight of her "Romulan" features.

Saavik made her way up through the ranks, and by the year 2329, Saavik had become the first officer of the USS *Armstrong*.

She and Spock had remained close over the years, and their relationship eventually grew beyond camaraderie into something more. In 2329, the couple became *betrothed* in a formal ceremony on planet Vulcan that was attended by Admiral Leonard McCoy and Lieutenant Jean-Luc Picard.

In 2342 Saavik was in Command of the USS Tokyo a Excelsior Class starship

In 2344, she was sent to the Romulan Star Empire on an unofficial assignment by Captain Uhura of Starfleet Intelligence to retrieve Spock, who had answered a mysterious summons from the Romulan commander Charvanek. When Saavik arrived on Romulus, she found the Romulan capital in a state of turmoil.

The mad Praetor Draleth was planning on launching an unprovoked attack on the Klingon colony at Narendra III in order to start a quadrant-wide war. Spock instructed Saavik to leave Romulus and raise the alarm for Narendra while Spock (who was suffering from the beginning stages of *Pon-Farr*) and his ally Ruanek took care of Draleth.

Saavik managed to reach the USS *Enterprise*-C, who went on to defend Narendra, while sending Saavik back to Vulcan, where she was soon reunited with Spock. Soon after, the couple were officially married in another ceremony, this one attended by both McCoy and Uhura

## The *Alliance*

was content for a time to command science vessels while the Federation was at peace. When the war with the Dominion broke out in 2373, she requested command of a combat-worthy vessel, and was given command of the USS *Alliance a Akira Class starship*.

At some point during the war in 2374 she was injured in ship-to-ship combat and transferred to home duty on Vulcan. Her former first officer, Captain Howe, sent her a "get well cactus" that she described to Spock as "a superfluous xerophyte".

While on Vulcan, Saavik accepted command of the planet's defenses.

In early 2377, she led a diverse convoy of vessels into the space Occupy by Breen, who had announced plans for a genocidal war against the Romulan Star Empire. In this first encounter, Admiral Pavel Chekov was believed to have been killed.

After it was discovered by Uhura that Chekov had not been killed, but was instead languishing in a Breen prison cell, Saavik took the *Alliance* back into Breen space for a rescue operation. The effort was successful, but Saavik had to deal with the immediate consequences of the rescue operation.

As of 2379, Saavik was still in command of the *Alliance*.