Can Saavik from the Star Trek: The Original Series movies appear in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds? Recent retcons explaining the legacy of Star Trek: Picard season 3's USS Titan-A have renewed interest in Saavik, who was portrayed by Kirstie Alley in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, and Robin Curtis in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock and Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. It brings up whether there's potential to see Saavik in Strange New Worlds.
Lt. Saavik was the protégé of Captain Spock (Leonard Nimoy) in The Wrath of Khan. Saavik failed the Kobayashi Maru test at the start of the film, but she was part of the violent and tragic conflict Admiral James T. Kirk (William Shatner) and the USS Enterprise engaged in with Khan Noonien Singh (Ricardo Montalbán). Saavik then joined the USS Grissom and joined Kirk's son, David Marcus (Merritt Butrick), in exploring the Genesis planet, where they found a resurrected Spock. After Spock was reunited with his katra, Saavik remained behind on Vulcan, and she wasn't canonically seen again after Star Trek IV. But Star Trek: Picard season 3's backstory revealed Saavik eventually became Captain of the first USS Titan.
