Now I can't get enough of Yeoman Rand!!!

And McCoy peeked only in the line of duty. :D

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Why wasn't she in more episodes? Why?

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Just kidding, but it's easy to tell that's a 40 year old photograph... :(

Yeoman Janice Rand, played by Grace Lee Whitney, is a character in Star Trek: The Original Series. She subsequently appears in several Star Trek films and in an episode of Star Trek: Voyager.

Rand serves as yeoman to Captain James T. Kirk aboard the USS Enterprise in the first half of the first season of The Original Series. A mutual attraction is suggested between her and Captain Kirk in episodes such as "The Naked Time", "The Enemy Within", and "Miri". Rand disappeared halfway into the first season, appearing in eight episodes altogether.

She next appeared in the 1979 film Star Trek: The Motion Picture as a transporter operator and non-commissioned officer. Her next appearance was in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home where she has been promoted to Chief Petty Officer and was stationed in San Francisco along with Christine Chapel. She served as the communications officer aboard the USS Excelsior in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country and in the Voyager episode "Flashback".

Whitney had a cameo in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock and was identified by fans as portraying Janice Rand, although the credits listed her as a red-haired "woman in cafeteria". Whitney, in her autobiography, maintained that she was not playing Rand in that movie.

Grace Lee Whitney was released during the filming of the first season. The last episode she filmed was "The Conscience of the King", in which Rand makes a brief appearance.

The reasons for Whitney's departure from the show are unclear, although the most commonly cited cause was that her character limits romantic possibilities for Captain Kirk. Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry's biography suggests that it was simply a budget cutback.

Whitney was suffering from alcoholism at the time, and according to some sources this affected her performance, which resulted in Rand's character being written out of certain episodes. Subsequently, this led to Rand being written out of the show altogether. Whitney in the 1980s identified these as possible causes for her dismissal, but in her autobiography, she steadfastly rejected the claims.

According to Whitney, in the first season, only William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy were guaranteed to appear in every episode. Of the three episodes in which she did not appear, Rand's character was not written into two ("Mudd's Women" and "What Are Little Girls Made Of?"). The only episode that Rand was deliberately written out of was "Dagger of the Mind", which Whitney said was a creative decision made because the episode's storyline put the mutual and yet repressed attraction between Kirk and Rand too much out in the open.

In her autobiography, Whitney alleges that an unnamed TV executive made a sexual assault against her, and she draws a link between this and her sacking a few days later.

Thank you for the wonderfully thorough background info. :)

Like Helena Cain

:P

I doubt anybody here would have had a snowball's chance in hell with Yeoman Rand either.

:P

D'oh!

She also appeared on several Outer Limits episodes (the new series)

The actress' full name is Michelle Renee Forbes Guajardo

Now I know where the spice came from.

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This is the LOUNGE after all.