Robin Curtis confirmed true Star Trek spirit by granting a fan’s final want

Robin Curtis made her debut as Lt. Saavik within the 1984 film, Star Trek: The Seek for Spock, reprising it briefly within the follow-up movie, Star Trek: The Voyage Residence. Her two appearances earned her the devotion of a mess of followers, and, based on a narrative Curtis relayed to Startrek.com whereas discussing the Fortieth anniversary of the film, a type of followers who had met her a conference, was dealing with the tip of his life inside a few weeks. And he had one final want—to share a meal with Curtis.

Curtis was contacted by a workers member on the hospital who relayed the person’s final want. He’d been taken off dialysis and had about two weeks to stay. When he’d met Curtis at a conference in Ohio within the Nineties, the kindness she confirmed him remained with him. With the true spirit of a member of the Star Trek household, Curtis did not hesitate to make the five-hour journey to Cleveland that very same day.

She arrived on the hospital that Friday night, however she did not simply keep for dinner. She was there with him all through each waking hour of the weekend earlier than leaving on Sunday. Afterwards, she talked with him every day on the cellphone till he died the next week.

“That was a present to me, and I would prefer to assume possibly a small reward to him.”

– Robin Curtis

She has maintained a connection to the person’s household by remaining involved and creating a friendship together with his aunt.

“I am flabbergasted on the multitude of ways in which [Star Trek] has enriched my life. My coronary heart explodes over the tenacity of the followers and the way the franchise solely will get higher and richer. Persons are very beneficiant and nostalgic about [The Search for Spock].”

– Robin Curtis

It is tales like this that present only one motive why Curtis has such a fan following. Not solely did she grant the fan’s final want, she went above and past and crammed his ultimate days with particular moments that may by no means be forgotten by Curtis or his household.