SilverWook said:
Cool! Did you get any insights as to why she wasn't in TSFS?
If memory serves, she felt it was a film and script that was meant to focus mostly on the original crew searching for Spock, and she was not interested in a brief cameo roll. If she was present, there would have had to be a romantic or coming to terms dynamic and plot device between her character and Kirk, and she and Harve Bennett felt that it would not have fit within this episode time allotment.