Janice Rand Janice Rand was a female Human Starfleet officer in the 23rd century . She began her service career in the operations division in the mid - 2260 s , serving aboard the during its five - year mission under Captain James T . Kirk . ( ; ; ) Service career . The five - year mission . Rand was a non - commissioned officer serving aboard the in 2266 , under the command of Captain James T . Kirk . She was assigned as the captain ' s personal yeoman by Starfleet Headquarters . ( ) Rand was first quartered in room 3C 46 on Deck 12 . ( ) She was later moved to room 3F 125 . ( ) Initially , the fact that Starfleet had assigned a female yeoman to his command annoyed Captain Kirk . Much to his surprise , Rand delivered dietary salad to him , incorrectly believing he was aware his diet card had recently been changed by Doctor McCoy . Furthermore , the way Rand attended to Kirk at first frustrated him but , moments later , he thanked her . To that , Rand politely replied he was welcome , then exited , which left Kirk and McCoy to comment about her during her absence . ( ) Soon thereafter , Rand heated a pot of coffee . Since the power was out in the " Enterprise " s galley , she used a phaser to heat the pot . Rand then served the hot coffee to the bridge personnel . ( ) An artist as a hobby , Rand had several painting s she had created hanging in her quarters aboard the " Enterprise " . ( ) At one point in 2266 , Rand was sitting at the office area of Captain Kirk ' s quarters , holding a batch of crew manifest microtape s when Kirk arrived . She was unaware that , due to a transporter malfunction , the captain had been split into two distinctly different versions of Kirk , one of whom was weak and indecisive whereas the other was bestial and lustful . Without knowing the newcomer was actually the former manifestation of Kirk , Rand gave him the manifest records and , interrupted by him , was summarily dismissed . Soon thereafter , Rand was sought by the other version of Kirk , who hungered for her while drunk on Saurian brandy . So , the inebriated duplicate Kirk entered her quarters and laid in wait for her to return . Later , she returned to her quarters and was attending to her hair in a mirror , all the while believing she was alone , when she was suddenly startled to see the person she believed to be the whole Captain Kirk emerging from the shadows in her bedroom holding a bottle of Saurian brandy . Rand was surprised to the point of speechlessness – meanwhile under the impression her visitor was Kirk himself – when the duplicate Kirk began speaking to her intimately . He amorously mentioned to her the feelings they ' d been hiding , claiming she was " too beautiful to ignore , " " too much woman , " and that they had both been " pretending too long . " Rand screamed , however , when he suddenly grabbed her and began kissing her . While she was fighting back , he pushed and pinned her to the floor and attempted to rape her ; but Rand fought back in self - defense , leaving a large scratch on the duplicate Kirk ' s face , a distinguishing feature which ultimately helped the crew differentiate between the two Kirk " halves . " The situation was resolved , and the two halves of Kirk were merged in the transporter . ( ) Rand ' s efficient work ethic was observed by the real Kirk , while he grew to respect her as a crew member and friend . Despite their professional relationship , an undercurrent of sexual attraction remained between the two . Rand ' s feelings for Kirk couldn ' t be requited by him , however , due to his position as ship ' s captain . Nonetheless , in certain crises , Rand and Kirk were instinctively drawn together and reached out for each other . ( ) During her service aboard the " Enterprise " , Rand developed a close relationship with several officers and crewmembers , including Lieutenants Uhura and Sulu . Rand frequently struck up conversations with , and delivered meals to , " Enterprise " officers other than Captain Kirk , and she accompanied them throughout the ship . She enjoyed a more informal relationship with them as compared to the professional relationship she maintained with the captain , which implied she was doing it out of friendship rather than an assigned duty as a yeoman . ( ) After a waterborne virus spread through the " Enterprise " , affecting the emotions of the crew , Kirk suddenly shouted to Spock , " " I have a beautiful yeoman ! " " Later , in the center seat on the bridge , befuddled by the virus , he reached a hand out to his " beautiful yeoman " standing next to him looking away at the screen and whispered under his breath , " " No beach to walk on , " " meaning he and Rand , in other circumstances , might have had a life together . ( ) Later that year , orphaned teenager Charles Evans came aboard the " Enterprise " . Rand ' s maternal instincts were drawn out by the troubled boy , and she quickly befriended Evans , hoping to help him ease back into regular life . Evans , the sole survivor of a transport crash , had little experience with other Humans and quickly became infatuated with Rand . She , unsure how to deal with Evans ' crush , asked Captain Kirk to speak to the boy on her behalf . Soon thereafter , the " Enterprise " crew discovered Evans ' secret – while Evans was alone on Thasus , the mysterious Thasian race had taken pity on the boy and granted Evans special powers . Rand turned down Evans ' advances , so he literally made her disappear from the " Enterprise " . The Thasians intervened and quickly returned Evans to Thasus . After her return to the " Enterprise " , Rand was shocked and troubled by the Thasians ' actions . Having seen how desperately Evans wanted to stay aboard the ship , Rand confided to Kirk her feelings of friendship for the boy . ( ) Yeoman Rand was among the most popular female members of the " Enterprise " s crew , second only to Lieutenant Uhura , who was her good friend . ( ) She was known for her compassion and thoughtfulness toward others . Rand was regarded highly by Kirk for her hard work and diligence . In 2266 , the " Enterprise " played cat and mouse with a Romulan in the Neutral Zone . When Kirk was in his quarters resting during a lull in the battle , Rand was able to enter without knocking to check up on him and found him lying in bed . Alone with the captain , she was hoping to console him , as he was preoccupied by the potential for a second Romulan war , so she offered to bring him food or coffee to help him . Rand was on the bridge , with Kirk , when the Romulans fired a plasma torpedo at the " Enterprise " . As the torpedo got closer to the ship , Rand immediately walked up close behind the captain for protection , and rested her chin on his shoulder . For a very brief moment , Kirk protested , but when the torpedo was just seconds from hitting the ship , Kirk and Rand instinctively reached out for each other and Kirk took Rand into his arms for protection . ( ) During one mission , Rand , Kirk , and other members of a landing party were trapped on Earth Two ; adults on the planet had quickly developed a virus which had been accidentally as a result of a life prolongation project conducted there . Eventually , Rand began showing signs of the disease . Alone in a corridor with the captain , crying and upset , she found comfort in his arms . Miri , a teenage girl whom the team had befriended , witnessed this , became jealous of Rand , and later briefly betrayed them by having her abducted by the other children . Kirk , under stress from the disease , became preoccupied with Rand ' s whereabouts and was desperate to find her , affectionately using her first name whenever he referred to her . ( ) Later career . By the mid - 2270s , Rand had been promoted to chief petty officer and transporter chief of the " Enterprise " . Before Rear Admiral Kirk assumed command of the " Enterprise " , she also served under the command of Captain Will Decker while the ship underwent a major refit in spacedock . ( ) In 2286 , Rand was a communications officer assigned to Starfleet Command on Earth . When the Whale Probe began vaporizing the Earth ' s ocean s , she was on duty and reported that Juneau , Alaska had ninety - five percent cloud cover . Later , Rand attended the trial of Kirk and his senior officers at the Federation Council Chambers . ( ) In 2293 , Lieutenant junior grade Rand was a communications officer on the , under the command of Captain Hikaru Sulu . Sometime before this year , she had completed her officer training , and was promoted in three years to ensign . ( ; ) That year , Captain Sulu violated his orders in order to attempt the rescue of Captain Kirk and Dr . Leonard McCoy from the Klingon prison colony Rura Penthe . Rand understood his motivations and agreed with his decision . She even chided Ensign Tuvok for questioning the captain ' s decision . ( ) The " Excelsior " later played a key role in the Khitomer Peace Conference that same year , by assisting the in its battle with General ' s prototype Klingon Bird - of - Prey , thereby preventing the assassination of the Federation President and Klingon Chancellor Azetbur . ( ) Appendices . Background information . Serialized appearances . Janice Rand was played by Grace Lee Whitney . She once joked that , even aged four months old , she " was already working on my Yeoman Rand beehive ! " ( " , " p . 18 ) Janice Rand was the third find for the role of the captain ' s yeoman , following Laurel Goodwin as Yeoman J . M . Colt and Andrea Dromm as Yeoman . Whitney was handpicked by Gene Roddenberry to portray the role . ( " " , p . 156 ) Her casting as Rand was precisely because a part she had played in Roddenberry ' s unsold pilot , " Police Story " , had been hugely popular with a test audience . ( " The Best of Trek " , p . 177 ) Whitney ' s part in " Police Story " , flirtatious Sergeant Lily Monroe , not only served as her screen test for " Star Trek " but was actually transferred by Roddenberry into the latter series , whereupon it became the Janice Rand character . ( " " , pp . 70 - 71 ) Herb Solow commented , " " Unlike the two prior ' model - type and cute ' Yeoman actresses , she [ Whitney ] appeared to him as what she was – pretty , sexy and vulnerable . Yeoman Janice Rand was piped aboard the USS " Enterprise . " ( " " , p . 156 ) Offered Whitney herself , " " By the time he had cast me in that role for the regular series , he had given a lot of thought as to how Yeoman Rand would fit into the chemistry of the " Star Trek " ensemble . " " ( " " , pp . 73 - 74 ) In the first draft script of ( written by Stephen Kandel in ) , Rand was to appear with Spock on a screen in Captain Kirk ' s quarters ( referred to in a memo from Robert Justman to Gene Roddenberry , dated ) . In April 1966 , a phone call from Grace Lee Whitney ' s agent which she waited at home to receive , in hope her agent would announce to her that " Police Story " had been sold , actually informed the actress that , though " Police Story " had been unsuccessful , Gene Roddenberry wanted her to play a part in " Star Trek " . After she arrived at Roddenberry ' s office at Desilu , she learned more about the character she was to personify . " " He explained the part of Yeoman Janice Rand , and how she would fit into the overall chemistry of the show as the captain ' s yeoman and the object of his repressed desire , " " remembered Whitney . " " It was a sexy part , with lots of possibilities . I instantly loved it . I signed the contracts without a moment ' s hesitation . I couldn ' t wait to get started [ . . . ] Finally , I had what I wanted : a continuing role on a weekly series . " " As such , Whitney considered herself " one of the first actors signed to do " Star Trek " . " ( " " , pp . 72 & 10 ) The character of Janice Rand was originally thought to be elemental to the series . " " The way Gene outlined the role , Janice Rand was an important character to the show , " " recalled Grace Lee Whitney . " " Sort of a sci - fi Miss Kitty to Captain Kirk – a confidant and trusted adviser . " " ( ) Whitney elaborated , " " I had signed [ to appear on " Star Trek " ] as a lead , not a featured player . " " ( " " , p . 10 ) In fact , during the pre - production phase of the first season , Whitney as Rand was advertised as the show ' s third star , along with William Shatner as Captain Kirk and Leonard Nimoy as Spock . She was featured in many promotional photographs made at the time , posing with the other two . Also , Whitney ' s credit for playing Rand was , in the end credits , on the same card as Doctor McCoy actor DeForest Kelley . ( " " , p . 10 ) In a revised draft of the teleplay for ( written by John D . F . Black and dated ) , Rand appeared in a scene at the start of the episode ' s second act , standing beside " her station , " in the words of Robert Justman . Later in the script , she asked Dr . McCoy , " " Shall I order you a half dozen for Christmas , Doctor ? " " In a memo of notes that Justman wrote about that version of the script and sent to John D . F . Black ( on 18 May 1966 ) , Justman suggested about Rand ' s scene at the beginning of the second act , " " Since she has nothing to do in this short scene , perhaps it would be better not to see her here . " " In the same memo , he additionally expressed confusion at precisely what Rand was offering to order McCoy for Christmas and asked , " " Is she referring to Mudd ' s Women ? " " As scripted for , Janice Rand was to initially appear in a scene set in Captain Kirk ' s quarters , where she firstly prepared Kirk ' s uniform then , after he arrived , was dismissed by him . In the final version of the installment , however , Rand doesn ' t appear until later in the episode , when she serves him dietary salad . Her way of doing things , in the episode ' s second revised final draft script ( dated 20 May 1966 ) , was repeatedly referred to as " professional " . When a revised draft of the " Mudd ' s Women " script was submitted by John D . F . Black ( on 23 May 1966 ) , Rand was still included in that story . However , she wasn ' t in the final draft of the teleplay ( issued on 26 May 1966 ) , apart from in the cast list at the start of the document . Rand was also mentioned in a memo from Gene Roddenberry to Robert Justman ( dated 31 May 1966 ) . The memo declared to Justman that Rand ' s name would be excised in a corrected version of the cast sheet . Because there was no large Women ' s Liberation movement at the time when the first season of TOS was produced , there was no influence from that political movement on the creation of the Rand character . " " But it did upset me , " " expressed Grace Lee Whitney , " " that she had to shake , cry , and fear so much . I suppose the only part of me that was in the character of Rand was the innocent little girl part of me . " " ( " The Best of Trek " , p . 177 ) On the other hand , Whitney was delighted to play Janice Rand in the series . ( ) " " In Yeoman Janice Rand , I had a character of my own to explore and develop , week after week [ . . . ] I had no idea how soon it would all be ripped away from me , " " the actress stated . ( " " , p . 1 ) During Grace Lee Whitney ' s first few weeks of filming Janice Rand ' s scenes in " Star Trek " , Leonard Nimoy was Whitney ' s acting coach , helping her portray Rand more believably . ( " " , p . 6 ) In a developmental memo Robert Justman wrote Gene Roddenberry about the second draft script of ( the memo was dated , while the episode had the working title " Damsel with a Dulcimer " ) , Justman commented , " " I do wish there was some way to combine the parts of Yeoman Janice and Uhura in this story and possibly give the part of Janice . " " Although Grace Lee Whitney not only acted but also sang , she was concentrating more on her acting career than her singing when she appeared as Janice Rand in TOS . In retrospect , Whitney cited this as a reason why the character never sang on the show . She also attributed the exclusion of her singing to her role lacking development time . ( " The Best of Trek " , p . 179 ) In Adrian Spies ' original script for , Rand was revealed to be twenty - four years old at the time , suggesting a birth year of 2242 . Portraying Janice Rand tied up by children in " Miri " was difficult for Grace Lee Whitney . " " I was so much into the role , I found it hard to separate fantasy and reality , " " she remembered . " " It was a genuinely scary experience , being tied up , trapped and victimized . " " ( " " , p . 3 ) Following a day ' s filming midway through production on " Miri " ( on ) , Grace Lee Whitney became intrigued when an executive on the Desilu lot told her , " " I think Yeoman Janice Rand has been under - utilized . The character has been developing some interesting possibilities in the past few episodes . I have some ideas – Why don ' t we find a place to sit down and talk about it ? " " After finding a private room on the lot , the man persuaded Whitney to adopt the persona of Rand in some sexually oriented role - playing , the man assuming the role of Captain Kirk . Decades later , Whitney recollected , " " You know , ' he said after we ' d been talking a while , ' the thing that is so fascinating about Janice Rand is her repressed desire – her hunger for sex . ' ' Not sex , ' I said . ' Love . She loves the Captain . ' ' Same thing , ' said The Executive . ' She wants the Captain so badly , but she represses it . She doesn ' t admit it – not even to herself . We all know what she " really " wants – but " she " herself doesn ' t know . She denies it . Janice Rand can ' t face her own desires , her own sexuality . ' ' Absolutely , ' I agreed . ' That ' s the key to the character . " " The man then insisted the sexual repression in Rand was also in Whitney and , later that night , committed a terrifying sexual assault on the actress . ( " " , pp . 1 - 6 ) On the morning of Monday 29 August 1966 , Grace Lee Whitney – with two more days of shooting " Miri " scheduled – was again made - up in preparation for playing Janice Rand , in the make - up room of Desilu Stage 9 . " " I sat down in the chair next to Leonard [ Nimoy ] , so that hairdresser Virginia Darcy could attach Yeoman Janice Rand ' s trademark beehive wig to my head , " " said Whitney . " " As Virginia worked on my hair , [ Makeup Supervisor ] Fred Phillips looked over at me and seemed to groan a silent ' Oh , no ! ' He saw he had quite a reconstruction job to do on me as soon as he was through with Leonard . My face was swollen and distorted from a weekend of too much crying and too much drinking . I know I looked sick , not only from anxiety but from being hungover . " " Darcy finished working on Whitney ' s hair before Phillips started on the performer ' s face . ( " " , pp . 7 - 8 ) Exclusion . The first draft script for ( which had the working title " Court Martial at Star Base 811 " ) suggested that Janice Rand ' s place on the bridge of the " Enterprise " was at the science station . In a memo Gene Roddenberry sent Gene L . Coon about that teleplay ( dispatched on ) , Roddenberry pointed out that Rand had been incorrectly placed at the station which was rightfully meant to be manned by Spock instead . Roddenberry also remarked about Rand , " " We should keep her playing her role as Captain ' s secretary - aide - valet . If we want to keep her alive in the story we can arbitrarily say that the filing of Kirk ' s log , notes , memos , and so on , are her responsibility . " " Ultimately , however , Rand was evidently omitted from the entire installment . The character also went through a similar process of exclusion during the writing of . An early draft of that episode ' s script featured her among a group of characters who crash - landed in the shuttlecraft " " . In a memo to Gene Roddenberry regarding that script draft ( dated 23 August 1966 ) , Robert Justman asked Roddenberry , " " Are you happy with the Janice - Kirk routine on page 8 ? " " Evidently , Rand was again later written out of the episode altogether . After wrapping production on " Miri " ( on Tuesday 30 August 1966 ) , Grace Lee Whitney received a call from her agent , Alex Brewis , about her character of Janice Rand , while the actress was at home just a couple days into a two - week hiatus before shooting was to begin on the next episode , . Brewis first ensured Whitney was sitting before telling her the news that the decision had been made to remove Rand from " Star Trek " , with Whitney about to be written out of the show and with no intent to replace her . ( " " , p . 9 ) In reply to Whitney asking why this choice had been made , Brewis relayed to her that he had been told Rand ' s romantic relationship with Captain Kirk was becoming too obvious and that – because the network NBC insisted on depicting Kirk having a more varied romantic life with numerous women played by a succession of guest - starring actresses – it would seem Rand was being cheated on by him , if her relationship with him was too intense . ( " " , p . 9 ; " " , p . 120 ; " The Best of Trek " , p . 178 ) It was obvious to Whitney that this reasoning was the opposite of what the executive who had violated her had said the previous Friday night : that Rand ' s relationship with Kirk could be strengthened and that many story possibilities would result from expanding the participation of the Rand character on the show . Brewis told Whitney , " " You have a contract for thirteen episodes . You ' ll have one more episode to shoot . You can finish out your contract , and then you ' ll be through . " " ( " " , p . 9 ) Although Grace Lee Whitney had been thrilled to portray Janice Rand in the series , she was utterly distraught by her character being written out of the show . ( ) " " I had lost my favorite role among all the roles I had performed , " " she reflected . The first person she informed about Rand ' s departure from the show was James Doohan , who was similarly shocked . ( " " , pp . 13 & 10 ) Robert Justman protested Rand leaving the series , wanting the character to at least be brought back on a guest - starring basis in future episodes , though this did not come to pass . ( " " , p . 67 ) Whitney at first felt bitter resentment toward Gene Roddenberry and the studio as well as feeling even suicidal , upon first learning of Rand ' s exclusion , but by , those feelings had subsided . ( " The Best of Trek " , p . 178 ) In the intervening years , Roddenberry himself repeatedly expressed regrets that , instead of keeping Rand in the series , he had given in to the pressure from the network . ( " " , p . 120 ) In a interview , Whitney stated , " " I am still often hurt when Yeoman Rand is left out of things [ . . . ] I thought I had lost a part of myself – that it was me , Grace , that had been written off , not the character . " " ( ) Grace Lee Whitney formed her own unsubstantiated theory to account for Janice Rand ' s expulsion from " Star Trek " , suspecting it was related to the incident between her and an executive . " " Because those events happened just a few days apart – the Friday night sexual assault and the call informing me that I had been written out of the show – there has always been a clear cause - and - effect linkage in my mind , " " she related . " " I have always believed that The Executive had me removed from " Star Trek " because he didn ' t want to be reminded of what he did to me that night [ . . . ] Because I never received any official explanation , there was always that faint glimmer of doubt in my mind – the nagging suspicion that maybe I was jettisoned from " Star Trek " for some other , unknown reason [ . . . ] A number of conflicting theories have been advanced in various " Trek " - oriented books and magazines to explain why I was let go from the series , yet no single , definitive , once - and - for - all answer was ever put forward . No internal memo ever surfaced that said , ' The producers of " Star Trek " have decided to toss Yeoman Janice Rand out the nearest airlock because . . . " " ( " " , p . 15 ) Gene Roddenberry later repeatedly expressed regrets that , instead of keeping Rand in the series , he had given in to the pressure from the network . ( " " , p . 120 ) The excising of the Janice Rand character happened during the making of . As a result , Rand ' s part in that outing was instead rewritten for the character of Helen Noel , whom Marianna Hill acted out in the installment . ( " The Best of Trek " , p . 178 ; " The Star Trek Compendium " , 4th ed . , p . 41 ) According to Whitney , " " The hardest thing was to watch somebody else say my lines . " " ( " " # 105 , , p . 49 ) Grace Lee Whitney found that one of the most challenging aspects of her departure from " Star Trek " was having to return to the studio for her final appearance in " The Conscience of the King " , in which Rand is present for about six seconds in only one scene and without any dialogue . At some point during the week of Monday , Whitney arrived for her last early morning call and was offended to see that her name on the parking lot she used there had already been painted over . " " I walked into Stage 9 and reported to makeup , where Fred Phillips applied my hair and makeup one last time , " " she said . " " Then I went out to the set of the " Enterprise " bridge and waited to be called . " " ( " " , p . 11 ) Though Rand ' s on - screen appearance in " The Conscience of the King " is minimal , that wasn ' t always the case . In the episode ' s final revised draft script , she made a brief appearance in an additional scene , set on the " Enterprise " s observation deck , where she interrupted a tour Kirk was giving Lenore Karidian . The script ' s stage directions indicated that Rand had been searching for the captain , as she had a duty roster to give him . She also had one line of dialogue in the scene , in which she stated to Kirk , " " Excuse me , sir . . . you said you wanted this roster as soon as it was completed . " " After handing the roster to Kirk , she exited " without batting an eye . " Subsequently , Lenore Karidian commented that Rand was " quite lovely , " to which Kirk added , " " And very efficient . " " Shortly thereafter in the teleplay , Lenore admitted that she believed Rand didn ' t like her , due to being attracted to Kirk , but he protested that Rand ' s relationship with Kirk was " strictly business , " though Lenore was sure that wasn ' t the case and that Kirk was simply naive about women . Some of these references to Rand were also included in a deleted scene from " The Conscience of the King " , beginning with Lenore ' s line about having felt that Rand didn ' t like her , and proceeding from there on . ( " Swept Up : Snippets from the Cutting Room Floor " , " " special features ) Grace Lee Whitney ' s TOS performances of Janice Rand had no great lasting effect on the actress ' career in show business . " " It was just another role , " " she said . " " But it had a profound effect on my ego , first up , then being shattered . " " ( " The Best of Trek " , p . 179 ) Later appearances . When the decision to make came about , it was also decided to include Janice Rand in the movie , again portrayed by Grace Lee Whitney . Unlike the other returning cast members from TOS , Whitney was not given a character description – from the " Writers ' / Directors ' Guide " for the ultimately aborted television series " " – to help with her performance in " The Motion Picture " , as she had not been intended to reappear in " Phase II " . The actress nevertheless found that reassuming the role for the film was not too problematic . Susan Sackett wrote , " " Grace Lee was left on her own in developing this character . But this was not too difficult , for the talented actress and singer had always remained close to " Star Trek " , delighting fans at conventions with original songs about Yeoman Janice Rand ' s adventures aboard the " Enterprise " . She and Janice are old friends . " " ( " " , p . 120 ) Janice Rand ' s appearance in " The Motion Picture " is in keeping with the fact that long hairstyles were disallowed in that film . ( " The Making of Star Trek " , p . 142 ) In the script of , Rand was referred to merely as the " Communications Officer " of the " Excelsior " and she – instead of an unnamed officer played by Christian Slater – was written , at one point , as awakening Sulu to inform him that Starfleet was looking for the " Enterprise " . Despite the fact this scene was rewritten to replace Rand , Grace Lee Whitney considered her role in " Star Trek VI " to be " better " than it had been in " Star Trek IV " . Whitney said of how she prepared for " Star Trek VI " , " " I had been hired for the part a few months before the movie had been shot . As it got closer to the filming date , I still had no script . I called casting and asked for a script , wondering if it was because I had [ a ] no speaking part . Well , this went back and forth until the morning I went to work on " Star Trek VI " and I still did not have a script . They sent me a few pages of the scene they were doing on that day which I read . We then shot about half the day and [ director ] Nick Meyer said to me , ' Can you cry real tears on camera ? ' As I was talking to him , I was mentally recalling a recent event where my daughter - in - law was pregnant and got very sick and was in the hospital taking intravenous feedings in her arms because she could not retain food or fluids by mouth . I began to cry just looking at him . " " ( " Cinefantastique " , Vol . 22 , No . 3 , p . 20 ) Rand later appeared in the episode . In the script of that installment ( both the first draft and the final draft of the teleplay ) , a scene description remarked , " " Rand is a communications officer who has served for many years , and is nearing the end of her career . She has an easy - going , friendly manner . " " At one stage during production on " Flashback " , Brannon Braga informed Grace Lee Whitney that the Rand character might later return , remarking , " " We ' re not killing you off , Grace , so we can bring you back ! " " ( ) However , this possibility never came to fruition . Rank ambiguities . Interviews with Grace Lee Whitney have suggested that Janice Rand held the rank of chief petty officer in " The Motion Picture " . In the film , her character had the chief petty officer rank insignia . This was probably also how Associate Producer Jon Povill thought of Rand . Shortly after mistaking her for an ensign , Povill sent a memo to Costume Designer Robert Fletcher that recognized the error , stating , " " Rand is not an ensign . She is a transporter chief . This means there should be no sleeve on her costume . Sorry about that , Chief . " " ( " " , pp . 126 - 127 ) The designation " Chief " was often assigned to Chief Petty Officers . According to the script for , Rand was either a master chief petty officer or a lieutenant . She was identified in the credits as " Commander Rand " . Even though Rand was a lieutenant jg in " Star Trek VI " , the episode had her wearing lieutenant commander rank insignia . A costume worn by Grace Lee Whitney as Janice Rand in " Star Trek VI " was auctioned off in the " It ' s A Wrap ! " sale and auction and included two ten - year service pins and a five - year service pin , corresponding to the fact that she had served in Starfleet for around thirty years . Woman in cafeteria . Grace Lee Whitney played a command division officer in the . This character was a commander . The credits for the film identified the character as “ Woman in Cafeteria ” . The for the film had no mention of Rand . Since there was no part for Whitney in or the script for , Director Leonard Nimoy corrected the oversight by giving her a cameo near the beginning of the film . She explained " " Leonard was way up on the boom directing me as I was looking . And of course , there was " no Enterprise " there . It was simply a blank wall . I had to do all this imagining in my head . So Leonard talked me through it . He said , ' OK . You ' re seeing the ship . It ' s coming in . There it is . It ' s the " Enterprise " . ' And I would look a certain way . And he would say , ' But it ' s hurt . ' And then I would look at it sadly . Then , he would say , ' Look at it now and see the things that are wrong with it . And Captain Kirk is in trouble . And Mr . Spock is dead . ' He was talking me through all of these things as I was watching it . He was putting into my mind what he wanted me to show in my eyes and my face . " " ( " " # 105 , , p . 49 ) Apocrypha . Some of the comics set around the time of Sulu taking command of " Excelsior " not only supported Janice Rand ' s rank as a lieutenant commander , but also implied she was the " Excelsior " s first officer . In the comic book " Blaise of Glory " , Rand ' s name is displayed on a computer screen as " Rand , Janice L " . According to the novel " " , she had two brothers named Benjamin and Sirri . The novel " The Captain ' s Daughter " reveals that Rand had a daughter named Annie who died from an illness at the age of two . According to the video game " " , Rand has an ex - husband named Jenneth Royce and a sister named Paula . In the Marvel comic book " " , two prominent characters , and , were said to be relatives of Janice . They were noted for coming from a long line of Starfleet officers . In IDW Publishing ' s alternate reality adaptation of , in the third and fourth issues of the " " comic series , Yeoman Rand was one of several landing party members who became stranded and survived the experience on Murasaki 312 , taking the place occupied by Mears in the TOS episode . In " Parallel Lives , Part 1 " , her male alternate reality counterpart is seen . The Janice Rand from the prime universe appears in one panel in " Connection , Part 2 " , the sixtieth and final issue of " Star Trek : Ongoing " .