Saavik's an interesting character - she's kind of the Star Trek movie regular cast member who never was. She was in The Wrath of Khan, of course, and The Search For Spock (and briefly The Voyage Home), but the change of actor from Kirstie Alley to Robin Curtis kind of hijacked the sense of continuity for her character there. Then she was intended to return for Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (my favourite Trek film), but - depending on who you talk to - either Alley's salary demands or Gene Roddenberry's objection to the idea of her turning 'evil' nixed the idea of her being involved in the Khitomer Conspiracy, and Lt. Valeris was created to replace her. (She was even intended to appear, in a brief cameo, on the bridge of the USS Bozeman alongside Kelsey Grammer's Captain Bateson when the ship time-travelled into the TNG era in 'Cause and Effect', but the production team didn't have the money to bring on Alley for a non-speaking cameo just to do a Cheers in-joke.) It's kind of a shame - I think she would have been great in VI. Anyway, now she's got an action figure, part of Diamond Select/Art Asylum's Original Series/Original Movies line. The Wrath of Khan was when director Nicholas Meyer, whose relatively unsung influence did an enormous amount to make Star Trek the juggernaut it became, got rid of the tight jumpsuit uniforms and had the costume department come up with something Horatio Hornblower-y, resulting in the old Navy-esque uniforms that continued to be used throughout the Kirk-era movies (and as far forward as the time of Jack Crusher, Wesley's father). It's not necessarily the most practical spacegoing outfit, but it looks great, all formality and tradition. The figure renders it will, with the distinctive red jacket being an especially good match for its on-screen appearance. One of the hallmarks of this era of uniform was lots of insignia, and these are sculpted and painted passably well, though not always exceptionally on close inspection - the rank bars on the right shoulder could have used a bit more coverage. While we're being picky, the black edge of the jacket's front is very clean down the chest, but on the bottom of the jacket, below the belt where it's soft plastic, the stripe's painting is pretty average. The orange/red on the collar, shoulder strap and left wrist - denoting Saavik's department - doesn't work too well with the dark red of the jacket, but that was a problem on the real uniform too; Kirk's white looked the best, but the characters outside of the command division had varying degrees of colour clash. The face is decent, but not DS/AA's best work. There's some Kirstie Alley in there, and it's weighted towards Saavik's politely neutral Vulcan stare, but the shape of the cheeks and jaw is a bit off, making her chin and mouth look a bit pouty, petulant almost, rather than reserved and shapely. The narrow outlining of the eyes in black is a bit of an odd choice as well, and tends to make the eyes look a bit cartoony at a glance. The drybrush on the hair to bring out the sculpted detail could have been better too, with too much paint on the brush leading to a gluggy, blotchy result - luckily the sculpt itself on the hair is quite good, and saves some face when the light catches it. Saavik's pretty well articulated, even improving a bit on the TNG/DS9 figures I'm used to. Naturally she has a ball joint neck, allowing her to do her cute little dignified Vulcan tilt of the head. Ball joint shoulders, swivel biceps, peg elbows and swivel wrists give her fairly mobile arms, though the single peg elbows only have about 90 degrees in them, so she can't, for instance, raise a communicator properly up to her mouth. She has a swivel waist at the belt and beneath the 'skirt' of her jacket - the fit of the jacket over the hips is tight, so if you just turn the legs while holding her shoulders the whole lot will turn, but with a bit of care you can get her hips and legs to turn while the bottom of the jacket stays in place. She has peg hips, swivel thighs, peg knees, and peg ankles - pretty good and mobile, considering how little her articulation affects her looks. She has several accessories, the most important of which - if you ask me, anyway - being an alternate right hand, displaying the Vulcan 'live long and prosper' salute (to which the correct response is "Peace and long life"). She also has a second alternate right hand, for gripping her phaser. Said phaser is the Wrath of Khan style type-2 (the sleek silver pistol kind), which sports a little black paint app on the top, but is basically just a single silver plastic piece - good enough. She has a communicator, which is a lighter silver plastic and has an opening flap - nice, but the whole thing seems a bit too big and thick for her scale. And finally she has one of the big, bulky tricorders used in the film, in black plastic with silver paint on the sensor area. She's a good figure - could be better in a few areas, mainly the face, but for the most part well made, and she'll fit in nicely with any film-era Star Trek collection, or the TOS-era figures which are at the same scale. Unfortunately these are a smaller scale than the 7-8" TNG/DS9 figures, so mixing and matching isn't really practical.