I read the novelisations long before I saw the movies, and I loved them! Vonda McIntyre does such a great job with subplots and fleshing out the main characters, so of course I adored Saavik. And The Pandora Principle was one of my favourite novels.

I did get the pon farr implication in the movie (and can see it as a logical thing), but I'm glad I didn't know until this post that she was meant to be pregnant from it, because I very much went with the book relationship!