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Janice Rand
Yeoman Janice Rand
Species:	Human
Gender:	Female
Affiliation:	Starfleet
Posting:	USS Enterprise yeoman Starfleet Command USS Excelsior communications officer
Rank:	unspecified, Commander
Portrayed by:	Grace Lee Whitney

Yeoman Janice Rand, played by Grace Lee Whitney, is a character in the original Star Trek series. The character 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 seaon 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's character disappeared halfway into the first season, appearing in eight episodes altogether.

Rand next appeared in the 1979 film Star Trek: The Motion Picture as a transporter operator and non-commissioned officer,^[1]. She is seen as an officer, as evident by her uniform in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock and Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. She is the communications officer aboard the USS Excelsior in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country and in the Voyager episode "Flashback".

Vonda N. McIntyre's novel Enterprise: The First Adventure suggests that Rand lied about her age in order to enlist in Starfleet and was only 17 at the start of Kirk's five-year mission. In Peter David's novel The Captain's Daughter, Rand tells Captain Sulu that she left Starfleet for a period of time to raise a daughter, Annie. The child's father was a "Starfleet officer on the fast track to greatness" who never knew about the child. Annie became ill and died at the age of 2; after this traumatic event, Rand rejoined Starfleet.

Whitney was fired during the filming of the first season.^[2] 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. She was, at the time, suffering from alcoholism and sexual addiction; some sources have suggested she was fired for this reason.^{[citation needed]} Whitney in the 1980s identified these as possible causes for her firing,^[3] but she claims in her autobiography that she never let these interfere with her work.^{[citation needed]}

The official reason given to Whitney was that the character limited romantic possibilities for Captain Kirk.^[4] Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry's biography suggests that it was simply a budget cutback.^[5] In Whitney's autobiography, she alleges that an unnamed TV executive made a sexual assault against her, and draws a link between this and her sacking a few days later.^[6]

Rand was lampooned by Victoria Jackson when William Shatner guest hosted Saturday Night Live. In the skit, the Enterprise had been converted into a rotating space-restaurant and Rand was one of the crew who now worked on the ship as a waitress.

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• Janice Rand article at Memory Alpha, a Star Trek wiki