While her problems began long before she hopped aboard the Starship Enterprise, her substance abuse developed into a full-blown, threatening, menacing beast in the following decades. It's not perfectly worded prose, but it's powerful. Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Nichelle Nichols, George Takei. If a relationship is going too well and seems to be healthy, then we have to find some way to wreck it. Recovering alcoholics call that having your wiring exposed.
Some people believe addiction is a chemical thing.
I can easily switch from drinking to something else. They don't get any tougher than Grace Lee Whitney, who is 17 years sober this year. In an interview before her appearance in Novi, Michigan, last spring, Whitney said she was a bit scared about the book's release. You'll see why. She throws it all out there in a very straightforward fashion, pebble after pebble, flying out into the darkness, pelting over and over any reader who's an addict.