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Topic: Grace Lee Whitney, Star Trek's Rand (1930-2015)
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Robert Pearlman
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posted 05-03-2015 09:22 PM
   
Actress Grace Lee Whitney, who played Yeoman Janice Rand on the original series of "Star Trek," died Saturday (May 1), according to StarTrek.com. Whitney, a blue-eyed blond beauty, represented one of Star Trek's greatest cautionary tales and also one of the franchise's most satisfying renaissance stories. She played the deeply professional Rand in eight first-season TOS episodes before being dropped from the series and slipping into an abyss of drugs and alcohol that left her, quite literally, on Hollywood's Skid Row. She finally got help, found God, and reclaimed her life and career, with an assist from Leonard Nimoy.Star Trek even came full circle for Whitney, as she was invited back into the fold and appeared in "The Motion Picture," "The Search for Spock," "The Voyage Home," and "The Undiscovered Country," as well as in the "Flashback" episode of Voyager and the fan films "World Enough and Time" and "Of Gods and Men." Her revealing autobiography, "The Longest Trek: My Tour of the Galaxy," was published in 1998 and, to her death, she remained a beloved figure at Star Trek conventions around the world. |
randy
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posted 05-03-2015 09:39 PM
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Robert Pearlman
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posted 05-03-2015 09:47 PM
...a beloved figure at Star Trek conventions around the world. I only met her briefly at a convention a number of years ago, but fondly recall the encounter. |
sts205cdr
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MarkRP
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posted 05-16-2015 03:31 AM
She was super nice to me, signing whatever. RIP. |
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