cited Scientology’s opposition to psychiatry as reason she didn’t appear on the show about a radio psychiatrist. Lee said that was what Alley told him, but that he also never asked her to make a guest appearance.
Her breakthrough had come in 1982 when she landed her first film role, playing Lt. Saavik in the acclaimed Star Trek sequel. In a 2016 interview, Alley said her arched eyebrows, which gave her a naturally skeptical look, made her a perfect fit for the character, who was half-Vulcan and half-Romulan. “People my whole life teased me,” she told. “Even my friends would go, ‘Oh God, your eyebrow goes up like Spock.’” She said landing the role was a surprise, even to her.
As Alley worked through the audition process, getting closer and closer to landing the role, tragedy struck. “I was supposed to have a meeting on a Monday for my final audition for, in front of Paramount and the studio guys,” she recalled. “That weekend, my parents were in a car wreck and my mother was killed. That was on a Friday night. I flew back to Kansas.” She told her agent to be honest with the filmmakers about what happened.
Star Trek fans adored her performance, and Saavik went on to be a part of series lore in its extended books and other storytelling, but Alley never reprised the role onscreen. She said the producers intended to add Saavik to the third Star Trek film, but offered her an even smaller paycheck. “I’m not trying to sound ungrateful at all, because what they paid me when you did your first job is fine,” she told. “But it wasn’t like it was a massive amount of money, trust me. It just wasn’t.
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