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    Grace Lee Whitney, Yeoman Janice Rand on 'Star Trek,' Dies at 85
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    Grace Lee Whitney, who played the loyal Janice Rand, the personal assistant who served Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner) aboard the USS Enterprise during the first season of Star Trek, has died. She was 85.

    Whitney, who reprised her role as Rand in four Star Trek films and in a 1996 episode of Star Trek: Voyager, died Friday at her home in Coarsegold, Calif., her son told The Fresno Bee.

    The attractive blond also appeared in two Billy Wilder films that starred Jack Lemmon: 1959’s Some Like It Hot (as one of the members of the all-girl band) and as Kiki the Cossack in 1963’s Irma la Douce.

    There was much sexual tension between Whitney’s Yeoman Rand and Shatner’s Kirk as the actress appeared in eight of the first 13 episodes of the 1966-69 NBC space drama. But then she suddenly was released from her contract.

    “There was a scene that Shatner and I did — and I remember when it happened — that scared the producers, because they said, ‘Uh-oh, they’re getting too close. This is getting too hot,’” she recalled in a 2011 interview. “We have to remove her because he’s going to look like he’s cheating when he falls in love with other women on other planets.”

    Whitney wrote in her 1998 book, The Longest Trek: My Tour of the Galaxy, that she was sexually assaulted by an executive at Desilu, the production company behind Star Trek, and suffered from drug and alcohol abuse for years before turning her life around.

    She was welcomed back as Chief Petty Officer Rand in Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979), followed by appearances in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984), Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986) and, as a lieutenant, in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991).

    A native of Ann Arbor, Mich., Whitney landed a job as a teenage singer on a radio station in Detroit and later played Chicago nightclubs with the likes of Buddy Rich and Billie Holliday. In 1951, she appeared on Broadway in the musical comedy Top Banana, starring Phil Silvers, and appeared in the 1954 movie version as well.

    Also in the early 1950s, she served as the inspiration for the Chicken of the Sea mermaid in ads for the canned tuna.

    Whitney had roles on such TV shows as The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, The Real McCoys, The Outer Limits, The Rifleman, Batman (as King Tut’s pretty accomplice) and Bewitched. She also did a pilot episode for Police Story, a drama that never made it to series; it was written by Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, and that led her to being cast as Rand.

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    Whitney's final appearance as Rand came in the 13th episode of Season 1, "The Conscience of the King." In an interview years later, Whitney said she was written out of the series in order to give Kirk more room to have romantic partners. Appropriately, Rand's final scene in the series showed her throwing some major shade at another blond potential love interest for Kirk.

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    Grace Lee Whitney: The 'Star Trek' red shirt who went the distance
    By Patrick Kevin Day
    May 4, 2015, 12:15 PM


    Grace Lee Whitney, who died at age 85 Friday in her home in Coarsegold, Calif., was a "Star Trek" anomaly. She was a red shirt who survived.

    Red shirts on "Star Trek" were notoriously expendable — the often unnamed crew members who went on missions with Capt. Kirk, Mr. Spock and the others and were often killed off quickly in order to demonstrate the threat level Kirk and the others faced.

    But Whitney, as Yeoman Janice Rand, wasn't just a one-episode wonder. She appeared in eight episodes of the show's first season and then made a comeback in "Star Trek: The Motion Picture," "Star Trek IV" and even as a guest star in the TV series "Star Trek: Voyager."

    Her first appearance to fans was in the first episode of the series, "The Man Trap," which revealed her to have enough personality to turn crew members' heads. At this early point in the show, she could have easily joined Sulu, Chekhov and the rest as another member of the core "Trek" cast.



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    The potential chemistry between Kirk and Rand developed in disturbing ways in the show's fifth episode, "The Enemy Within," in which Rand was nearly raped by the "evil" half of Kirk. Once again, Rand deftly held her own against Kirk even in an unnaturally aggressive state.




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