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At the end their signatures are written large across the screen: William Shatner , Leonard Nimoy , DeForest Kelley and the others who have been playing the crew of the Starship Enterprise for the past 25 years. The implication is that the original voyage of “ Star Trek ” has come to an end--that the characters and players of the first television series and the six “Star Trek” movies will now go where no “Star Trek” actor has gone before, into retirement, and that if there is another “Star Trek” movie it will star, perhaps, the cast of TV’s “Star Trek” The Next Generation.”

I am not so sure, however. This sixth “Star Trek” film has so much more life and interest than the dreary “Star Trek V: The Final Frontier” that perhaps it will tempt Paramount into still another story for Captain Kirk and his crew (perhaps a training voyage for the new generation?). “Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country” begins, as so many “Star Trek” stories do, with a story set in the future but parallel to contemporary developments. In this case, as the Klingon empire begins to self-destruct after a Chernoble-type explosion on one of its moons, the obvious reference is to the disintegration of the Russian empire.

As the Klingons sue for peace, the Enterprise is assigned to go out to the edges of Federation space and negotiate with them. Captain Kirk is bitterly reluctant; he doesn’t believe the Klingons can be trusted, ever. But Mr. Spock informs him of an alleged ancient Vulcan proverb: “Only Nixon can go to China.”

There are a lot of lines like that in the script by Nicholas Meyer and Denny Martin Flinn, and a lot of lines by Shakespeare, too, who supplies not only the movie’s subtitle but also many references from “Hamlet” and elsewhere (“He is better in the original Klingon,” one of the enemy snorts.) At one point two of the supporting actors, the distinguished Shakespearians David Warner and Christopher Plummer , seem to be trading familiar quotations instead of dialog, but the strange thing is, it’s effective; in its pop-culture way, “Star Trek” has taken on a kind of epic quality over the years, and such references help establish the notion that the story really does take place in a future that remembers the past.

If the dialog is from Shakespeare, the plot seems borrowed more from an old British country house mystery; one or more disloyal members of the Enterprise crew fire on a Klingon star cruiser and then port themselves on board to murder those who have come to ask for peace. Through plot complications that would have made Agatha Christie proud, the clues to the identify of the killers depend on bloody boots and bootprints, and figuring out who was where, and when.

“Star Trek” has always been more allegory than science fiction. There is a kind of integrity, indeed, in the deliberately low-tech sets; the movies have always remained true to the klutzy art direction of the TV series, and in a post-”2001” and “Star Wars” age the bridge of the Enterprise still looks as if it were made out of old Captain Video props and a 1950s housewares show.

It doesn’t matter, because the movies aren’t really based on sets, or even much on action; they’re about ideas and relationships and here we see the old friendships of the Enterprise tested, and hear new versions of the same old jokes about how Vulcans don’t understand jokes. It’s entertaining, and reassuring.

Why on earth (or anywhere else) would Paramount want to retire this crew, which is as familiar and comforting as old family friends, and which does its job with the effortless grace of long familiarity? In Shakespeare, the “undiscovered country” is death. And elsewhere trhe bard refers to one who dies as being like an actor who goes off to “study a long silence.” I don’t know if that will work here. I doubt frankly that the crew of the Enterprise can stop talking long enough to die.

Roger Ebert

Roger Ebert was the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his death in 2013. In 1975, he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism.

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Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)

113 minutes

Walter Koenig as Chekov

Nichelle Nichols as Commander Uhura

William Shatner as Capt.Kirk

Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock

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• Ralph Winter
• Cliff Eidelman
• Nicholas Meyer

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The sixth Star Trek feature — the last to include all the regulars from The Original Series — marked Nicholas Meyer’s return to the director’s chair and his grittier take on the Star Trek universe. The Enterprise once again reflected a more militaristic design sensibility.

Although Meyer had pushed for and succeeded in giving Star Trek a visual overhaul when he co-wrote and directed The Wrath of Khan , this time even he felt constrained by what had become established:

There are certain things about Star Trek that are immutable. You don’t change them, or you can only change them in very limited, cosmetic ways.

At first, Harve Bennett, who had produced every Star Trek film since The Wrath of Khan , went back to the idea of a prequel that had been raised by Ralph Winter for Star Trek IV five years earlier. He and The Final Frontier writer David Loughery wrote a script entitled The Academy Years , also known at some point as The First Adventure , which would have seen the familiar characters played by younger, and less expensive, actors.

Gene Roddenberry and Martin S. Davis, the CEO of Paramount’s parent company, rejected the idea. With the twenty-fifth anniversary of Star Trek only one year away, the studio turned to Meyer and Leonard Nimoy to quickly come up with an appropriate adventure, using all the original actors.

Meyer recalled in an interview with the official Star Trek website in 2014 that it was Nimoy who came up with the idea of using the end of the Cold War as inspiration:

He had an idea, the germ of an idea of how to make Star Trek VI . Basically, as he put it, “The wall comes down in outer space.” The wall had just come down in Berlin. As he explained to me, the Klingons had always been Star Trek ’s stand-in for the Russians. If there was no more Soviet Empire, as there was no more Klingon Empire, who am I? Who am I if I have no enemy to define me?

Meyer hashed out the details with Denny Martin Flinn, originally a theater man who had gone into writing mystery novels and who had worked as Meyer’s assistant for the preceding four years.

Flinn told Cinefantastique in 1992 that he felt Star Trek failed when it relied too much on science fiction. “Maybe that’s part of why nobody likes Star Trek I and V very much.” The trick was capturing the “wagon train to the stars” spirit Roddenberry had pitched to NBC almost thirty years earlier.

Star Trek is best when it’s a morality play. That’s what Gene called the original episode. So when Leonard came up with the idea that the Klingons could stand in for the Russians, and we could deal with the end of the Cold War, we were home free in terms of fundamentals that we knew worked.

But contrary to Roddenberry’s vision, Meyer and Flinn weren’t afraid to show the Starfleet crew as flawed. Kirk in particular displays bigotry toward the Klingons, whom he can’t forgive for killing his son.

But he was intelligent enough to ask what does the future have to offer? Maybe peace isn’t wrong? I think we were lucky to be able to see Kirk as a man who, if he was rigid, at least recognized his own rigidity. It allowed us to create a character that, in essense, was a spokesman for the uncertainties and the whole idea of the undiscovered country. The idea of the future being scary really got nailed down because we had a character that could say that.

Shatner agreed:

The portrayal of Kirk attempts to show a man who has spent a lifetime imbued with the idea that his mission in life is to subdue, subvert and make the enemy submit to his nation’s or his Federation’s view. That’s his whole training, a military training. He learns differently, and that is the classic dilemma that Star Trek has sough to present in its most successful shows.

But the actor felt there was one scene in which Meyer and Flinn had gone too far. When Spock pleads with his captain that the Klingons are dying, a vicious Kirk says, “Let them die!” Shatner writes in his Star Trek Movie Memories that the camera originally stayed with Kirk, who made a dismissive gesture to suggest he didn’t really mean it. Meyer cut that part from the film.

It took eleven months to get Star Trek VI done, a breathtaking pace for Hollywood.

The rushed production, and a limited budget, did mean there were casualties. There was no money to build, or rebuild, all-new sets, so many had to be borrowed from The Next Generation . The Enterprise -D’s observation lounge was tweaked to become the Enterprise -A’s dining room. Engineering and sickbay were used unchanged. (The sickbay scene was shot virtually in the dark, so viewers couldn’t tell it was really The Next Generation ’s.) The bridge had only been partially built for Star Trek V and needed to be redressed in darker colors anyway to reflect Meyer’s tastes. The only new Enterprise set was the galley.

A planned prologue written by Flinn for every one of the seven principal actors was cut.

The scenes demonstrated who those people were and what they did when they weren’t on the Enterprise .

Kirk would have retired from Starfleet, living in San Francisco with Carol Marcus. An inebriated McCoy would have been picked up from a dinner with other physicians. Scotty was lecturing at the Academy. Uhura had a radio show. Chekov was found losing a game of chess to a Betazoid.

The only career change that did make it into the film was Sulu’s captaincy of Excelsior , something George Takei lobbied long and patiently for.

Giving all the supporting cast meaningful parts to play wasn’t easy. Producer Ralph Winter told Cinefantastique ,

That is the challenge of doing something like this as opposed to doing James Bond or Indiana Jones , where it’s clear there’s only one hero with a lot of supporting character.

Also unlike an original production, the supporting cast in this case had a leg to stand on, said Flinn:

What a writer or a director tries to do is tell the story as effective as possible. But in Star Trek , part of it is that the story is just an episode and you’re adding to the 25 years of lore of these people. The audience wants to know what happened to Uhura and Sulu.

The evocative ending, with the Enterprise disappearing against “the second star on the right and straight on till morning,” followed by the dramatic flourishes of the key actors’ signatures, was clearly intended as a farewell to Star Trek ’s first and most famous crew.

But like most farewells in the Star Trek universe, it was not really the end. There would be a Star Trek VII and some of the original cast would be around to make that voyage as well.

Interesting reading, particularly the part where actors had to be bribed to eat blue squid.

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Written by generationofswine on january 10, 2023.

I mean, there are better Star Trek movies, but this was 1991 and the Berlin Wall fell and the Klingons were the metaphor for the USSR (despite what the current everything is political writers of Picard say, despite their attempts to invert it) and spray cans destroyed to O-Zone layer...

... and so do moons.

So.... this fit PERFECTLY into 1991. PERFECTLY, and good science fiction is always a commentary on politics, culture, religion, something contemporary that needs to be poked at and examined.

And that is EXACTLY what VI does, and it does it to the letter. It examines the old cold war... read the rest.

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• On the eve of retirement, Kirk and McCoy are charged with assassinating the Klingon High Chancellor and imprisoned. The Enterprise crew must help them escape to thwart a conspiracy aimed at sabotaging the last best hope for peace.
• After an explosion on their moon, the Klingons have an estimated 50 years before their ozone layer is completely depleted, and they all die. They have only one choice - to make peace with the Federation, which will mean an end to 70 years of conflict. Captain James T. Kirk and crew are called upon to help in the negotiations because of their experience with the Klingons. Peace talks don't quite proceed, and Kirk and McCoy are convicted of assassinating the Klingon High Chancellor, and imprisoned on Rura Penthe, a snowy hard-labor prison camp. Will they manage to escape? And will there ever be peace with the Klingons? — Colin Tinto <[email protected]>
• After a lunar cataclysm brings the Klingons to their knees, the foreign concept of peace with the Federation may be finally within reach. After 70 years of hostility, the Federation and the Klingon Empire prepare for a peace summit. Ironically, Captain James T. Kirk has been assigned as the first emissary to broker that peace. However, the prospect of intergalactic glasnost with sworn enemies is an alarming one. When the Klingon flagship is attacked and the USS Enterprise is held accountable, the dogs of war are unleashed again, as both worlds brace for what may be their final, deadly encounter. — Robert Lynch <[email protected]>
• As a Klingon moon, Praxis, explodes without warning, the star ship USS Excelsior, commanded by Captain Hikaru Sulu, is struck by the shock wave and its crew discovers that much of the moon has been obliterated. The loss of their key energy production facility and the destruction of the Klingon home world's ozone layer throws the Klingon Empire into turmoil. The explosion was caused by over mining and in-sufficient safety precautions. No longer able to maintain a hostile footing, the Klingons sue for peace with their longstanding enemy, the United Federation of Planets. Accepting the proposal before the Klingons revert to a more belligerent approach, Starfleet sends the USS Enterprise-A to meet with the Klingon Chancellor, Gorkon, and escort him to negotiations on Earth. Enterprise's captain, James T. Kirk (William Shatner), whose son David was murdered by Klingons years earlier, opposes the negotiations and resents his assignment. Other officers include Leonard McCoy (DeForest Kelley), Medical officer, Montgomery Scott (James Doohan) engineer, helmsman Hikaru Sulu (George Takei), Pavel Chekov (Walter Koenig), Uhura (Nichelle Nichols) After a rendezvous between Enterprise and Gorkon's battle cruiser they continue towards Earth, with the crews sharing a tense meal aboard Enterprise. Later that night, Enterprise appears to fire on the Klingon ship with a pair of photon torpedoes, disabling the artificial gravity aboard the Klingon vessel. During the confusion, two figures wearing Starfleet suits and gravity boots beam aboard the Klingon ship and grievously wound Gorkon before beaming away. The situation is chaotic on the Enterprise, Scotty confirms that all Torpedoes are in place, yet the data banks suggest that the Enterprise has fired twice upon the Klingon ship. Kirk surrenders to avoid a fight, and beams aboard the Klingon ship with Doctor Leonard McCoy (DeForest Kelley) to attempt to save Gorkon's life. The chancellor dies, and Gorkon's chief of staff, General Chang, puts Kirk and McCoy on trial for his assassination. The pair are found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment on the frozen asteroid Rura Penthe. Gorkon's daughter, Azetbur, becomes the new chancellor, and continues diplomatic negotiations; for reasons of security, the conference is relocated and the new location is kept secret. While several senior Starfleet officers want to rescue Kirk and McCoy, the Federation president refuses to risk full-scale war. Azetbur likewise refuses to invade Federation space, stating that only Kirk and McCoy will pay for her father's death. Kirk and McCoy arrive at the Rura Penthe mines and are befriended by a shape Shifter named Martia, who offers them an escape route; in reality, it is a ruse to make their arranged deaths appear accidental. Once her betrayal is revealed, Martia transforms into Kirk's double and fights him, but she is killed by the prison guards to silence any witnesses. Just before the prison warden reveals who set them up, Kirk and McCoy are beamed aboard Enterprise by Captain Spock (Leonard Nimoy), who had assumed command and undertaken an investigation in Kirk's absence. Determining that Enterprise did not fire the torpedoes but that the assassins are still aboard, the crew begins looking for them. The two assassins are found dead, but Kirk and Spock trick their accomplice into believing they are still alive. When the culprit arrives in Sickbay to finish off the assassins, Kirk and Spock discover that the killer is Spock's protege, Valeris (Kim Cattrall). To discover the identity of the conspirators, Spock initiates a forced mind-meld, and learns that a group of Federation, Klingon, and Romulan officers plotted to sabotage the peace talks, fearing the changes their success might bring (the titular "undiscovered country"), and Chang is one of the conspirators. The torpedoes that struck Gorkon's cruiser came from a prototype Bird of Prey that can fire while cloaked and hovered just below Enterprise at the time of the assassination. The crew contacts Sulu, who informs them the conference is being held at Camp Khitomer. Both ships head for the talks as fast as they can. As Enterprise nears the planet, Chang's cloaked Bird of Prey moves to intercept. With Enterprise unable to track his ship's position, Chang inflicts severe damage on Enterprise and then Excelsior. At the suggestion of Uhura, the Enterprise's communication officer, Spock and McCoy modify a photon torpedo to home in on the exhaust emissions of Chang's vessel, using equipment originally intended to study gaseous anomalies. The torpedo impact reveals Chang's location, and Enterprise and Excelsior destroy the Bird of Prey with a volley of torpedoes. Crew from both ships beam to the conference and halt an attempt on the Federation president's life. Kirk pleads for those present to continue the peace process. Having saved the peace talks, Enterprise is ordered back to Earth by Starfleet Command to be decommissioned, but the crew decide to take their time on the return voyage. As Enterprise cruises towards a nearby star, Kirk proclaims that though this mission is the final cruise of Enterprise under his command, others will continue their voyages.

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Szablon:Aquote Janice Rand was a female Human Starfleet officer in the 23rd century . She began her service career in the operations division in the mid- 2260s . ( TOS : „ The Man Trap ”, „ Charlie X ”, „ Balance of Terror ”; Star Trek I ; VOY : „ Flashback ”)

Spis treści

• 1.1 The five-year mission
• 1.2 Later career
• 2.1 Appearances
• 2.2.1 Serialized appearances
• 2.2.2 Exclusion
• 2.2.3 Later appearances
• 2.3 Rank ambiguities
• 2.4 Woman in Cafeteria
• 2.5 Apocrypha
• 2.6 External links

Service career [ ]

The five-year mission [ ].

She was a non-commissioned officer serving aboard the USS Enterprise in 2266 , under the command of Captain James T. Kirk . She was assigned as the captain’s personal yeoman by Starfleet Headquarters . ( TOS : „ The Corbomite Maneuver ”} She was first quartered in room “3C 46”, on Deck 12 , ( TOS : „ The Enemy Within ”}, then she was moved to room “3F 125” ( TOS : „ Charlie X ”)

Initially, Captain Kirk was disgruntled that Starfleet had assigned a female yeoman to his command. However, after seeing Rand's efficient work ethic in action, Kirk grew to respect her as a crewmember and friend. Despite their professional relationship, an undercurrent of sexual attraction remained between the two. U nder stressful situations, Kirk, however, could not requite the feelings Rand felt for him, due to his position as ship's captain. In certain crises, Kirk and Rand were instinctively drawn together or reached out for each other. ( TOS : „ The Corbomite Maneuver ”, „ The Naked Time ”, „ Balance of Terror ”)

During a Romulan attack, Kirk and Rand instinctively reaching out for each other for protection ( 2266 )

Yeoman Rand was among the most popular members of the Enterprise Szablon:'s crew, second only to Lieutenant Uhura , who was her good friend. ( TOS : „ Charlie X ”) 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 ship 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 to find 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; and Rand and Kirk were on the bridge when the Romulans fired their plasma torpedo at the Enterprise. As the torpedo got closer to the ship, Rand instinctively reached out to the Captain for protection. She walked up very close behind him; resting her chin on his shoulder. For a very brief moment Kirk protested, but as the torpedo was just seconds from hitting the ship, Kirk turned and pulled Rand into his arms for protection. ( TOS : „ Balance of Terror ”)

An artist by hobby, Janice had several paintings she created hanging in her quarters aboard the Enterprise . ( TOS : „ The Enemy Within ”)

Kirk's duplicate instinctively drawn to Rand ( 2266 )

A duplicate of Captain Kirk was created during a transporter malfunction that contained his negative qualities, lust and violence. The evil duplicate, who was instinctively drawn to Rand, was alone with Rand in her quarters, drunk and amorous. The duplicate Kirk mentioned to her the feelings they'd been hiding, claiming she was " too beautiful to ignore ," " too much woman ," and that they both been " pretending too long ." The duplicate Kirk suddenly grabbed Rand, yelled, " Let's stop pretending! ", and starting kissing her. As she was fighting back, the duplicate Kirk pushed her to the floor and attempted to rape her, but she defended herself and left a large scratch on the duplicate Kirk's face, which helped the crew differentiate between the two Kirk "halves." The situation was resolved, and the two halves of Kirk were merged in the transporter. ( TOS : „ The Enemy Within ”)

Off-duty with her hair down ( 2266 )

Later that year, orphaned teenager Charles Evans came aboard the Enterprise . The troubled boy drew out Rand's maternal instincts, 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. In a fit of anger and pique, Evans used these superhuman abilities against the crew, turning one crewwoman into a lizard and removing the faces of some junior officers. When Rand turned down Evans' advances, 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. ( TOS : „ Charlie X ”)

Suffering from life prolongation complex ( 2266 )

During one mission, Rand, Kirk and other members of a landing party were trapped on a planet that is an exact copy of the earth and where only children survived; adults quickly developed a wasting disease called life prolongation complex . Eventually, Rand began showing signs of the disease. Alone in the corridor with the Captain, crying and upset, she found comfort in his arms. Miri , a teenage girl whom the team had befriended, witnessed this and became jealous of Rand. She didn't like Kirk getting close towards Rand and Rand's passionate looks at the Captain. She felt that Rand was her "competition" and briefly betrayed them by having her abducted by the other children. Kirk, under stress from the disease, became preoccupied with Rand's whereabouts and in locating his "Janice." He suddenly grabbed Miri and shouted " Where is she Miri? Where is she Miri? Where is Janice? Where is she...? Has something happened to her...? I've got to find Janice! " ( TOS : „ Miri ”) And 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. ( TOS : „ The Naked Time ”)

Sulu and Rand finding Barnhart 's body aboard the Enterprise

Rand encounters Lenore Karidian on the bridge

During her service aboard the Enterprise, Rand developed a close relationship with several officers and crewmembers, including Lieutenants Uhura and Sulu. Rand will frequently strike up conversations with, and deliver meals to, Enterprise officers other than Captain Kirk, and accompany them throughout the ship. She enjoys a more informal relationship with them as compared to the professional relationship she maintains with the captain, which implies she is doing it out of friendship rather than an assigned duty as a yeoman. ( TOS : „ The Man Trap ”)

Later career [ ]

Transporter Chief in 2270s

In the mid- 2270s , Chief Petty Officer Rand was a transporter chief . Before Rear Admiral Kirk assumed command of the ‘’Enterprise’’, she was under the command of Captain Willard Decker while the ship underwent a major refit in spacedock . ( Star Trek I )

At Starfleet Headquarters in 2286

In 2286 , Rand was a communications officer assigned to Starfleet Command on Earth . When the Whale Probe began vaporizing the Earth ’s oceans , she was on duty and reported that Juneau , Alaska had ninety-five percent cloud cover. ( Star Trek IV: Powrót do Domu )

In 2293 , Lieutenant junior grade Rand was a communications officer on the USS Excelsior , 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 . ( Star Trek VI: Nieodkryta Kraina ; VOY : „ Flashback ”)

That year, Captain Sulu violated his orders in order to attempt the rescue 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. ( VOY : „ Flashback ”)

The Excelsior later played a key role in the Khitomer Peace Conference that same year, by assisting the USS Enterprise -A in its battle with General Chang 's prototype Klingon Bird-of-Prey , thereby preventing the assassination of the Federation President and Klingon Chancellor Azetbur . ( Star Trek VI: Nieodkryta Kraina )

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Appearances [ ].

• The Corbomite Maneuver
• The Enemy Within
• The Man Trap
• The Naked Time
• Balance of Terror
• The Conscience of the King
• Star Trek I
• Star Trek III: W Poszukiwaniu Spocka
• Star Trek IV: Powrót do Domu
• Star Trek VI: Nieodkryta Kraina
• VOY : „ Flashback ”

Background information [ ]

Serialized appearances [ ].

Grace Lee Whitney once joked that, even aged four months old, she "was already working on my Yeoman Rand beehive!" ( The Longest Trek: My Tour of the Galaxy , 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 Smith . Grace Lee Whitney was handpicked by Gene Roddenberry to portray the role. ( Inside Star Trek: The Real Story , 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. ( The Longest Trek: My Tour of the Galaxy , 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." ( Inside Star Trek: The Real Story , 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. " ( The Longest Trek: My Tour of the Galaxy , pp. 73-74)

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 to 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. 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 ." ( The Longest Trek: My Tour of the Galaxy , 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. " ( Szablon:STC ) Whitney elaborated, " I had signed [to appear on Star Trek ] as a lead, not a featured player. " ( The Longest Trek: My Tour of the Galaxy , 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 . ( The Longest Trek: My Tour of the Galaxy , p. 10)

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. ( Szablon:STC ) " 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 Longest Trek: My Tour of the Galaxy , 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. ( The Longest Trek: My Tour of the Galaxy , p. 6)

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 Miri , Rand is revealed to be 24 years old at the time, suggesting a birth year of 2242 . [1]

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. " ( The Longest Trek: My Tour of the Galaxy , p. 3)

Following a day's filming midway through production on "Miri" (on Szablon:D ), 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, " Szablon:' 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. Szablon:' " 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. ( The Longest Trek: My Tour of the Galaxy , 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. 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. ( The Longest Trek: My Tour of the Galaxy , pp. 7-8)

Exclusion [ ]

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, The Conscience of the King . 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. ( The Longest Trek: My Tour of the Galaxy , 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. ( The Longest Trek: My Tour of the Galaxy , p. 9; The Making of Star Trek: The Motion Picture , 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. " ( The Longest Trek: My Tour of the Galaxy , 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. ( Szablon:STC ) " 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. ( The Longest Trek: My Tour of the Galaxy , 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. ( The Longest Trek: My Tour of the Galaxy , 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 Szablon:Y , 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. ( The Making of Star Trek: The Motion Picture , p. 120) In a Szablon:Y 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. " ( Szablon:STC )

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... Szablon:' " ( The Longest Trek: My Tour of the Galaxy , 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. ( The Making of Star Trek: The Motion Picture , p. 120)

The excising of the Janice Rand character happened during the making of TOS : „ Dagger of the Mind ”. As a result, Rand's part in that outing was instead rewritten for the character of Helen Noel . ( The Best of Trek , p. 178)

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 Szablon:D , 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. " ( The Longest Trek: My Tour of the Galaxy , p. 11)

Her TOS performances of Janice Rand had no great lasting effect on Grace Lee Whitney's 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 Star Trek I 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 Star Trek: Phase II – 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 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. " ( The Making of Star Trek: The Motion Picture , 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 Star Trek VI: Nieodkryta Kraina , Rand is referred to merely as the "Communications Officer" of the Excelsior and she – instead of an unnamed officer played by Christian Slater – was written as the character that awakens 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 would later appear in the episode Flashback . At one stage, 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! " ( Szablon:STC )

Rank ambiguities [ ]

Interviews with Grace Lee Whitney have suggested that Janice Rand held the rank of chief petty officer in The Motion Picture . Szablon:Incite 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. " ( The Making of Star Trek: The Motion Picture , pp. 126-127) The designation "Chief" was often assigned to Chief Petty Officers.

According to the script for Star Trek IV: Powrót do Domu , Rand was either a master chief petty officer or a lieutenant . Szablon:St-minutiae She was identified in the credits as “Commander Rand”.

Even though Rand was a lieutenant j.g. in Star Trek VI , the Star Trek: Voyager episode Flashback 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. [2]

Woman in Cafeteria [ ]

"Woman in cafeteria" from Star Trek III

Grace Lee Whitney played a command division officer in the Star Trek III: W Poszukiwaniu Spocka . This character was a commander. The credits for the film identified the character as “Woman in Cafeteria”. The Szablon:St-minutiae for the film had no mention of Rand.

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 Szablon:'s first officer.

In the Szablon:Y Marvel Voyager comic book " Ghosts ", two prominent characters, Josh and Athena Rand, 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 The Galileo Seven , in the third and fourth issues of the Star Trek: Ongoing comic series , Yeoman Rand was one of several landing party members who become stranded and survived the experience on Murasaki 312 .

External links [ ]

• Szablon:Startrek.com
• Janice Rand w Memory Beta , obejmującą dzieła związane z uniwersum Star Trek
• Janice Rand , artykuł na polskiej Wikipedii .
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Published Dec 6, 2015

Star Trek VI Opened 24 Years Ago Today

It was on December 6, 1991 that Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country debuted in movie theaters across the country. And, for all intents and purposes, it capped the TOS era and the big-screen adventures of the original Enterprise crew. It did so in style, of course – with a meaningful, often action-packed conspiracy/assassination story that allowed William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, Nichelle Nichols, George Takei and Walter Koenig take their final bows.

The plot, with its political intrigue involving the Vulcans, Federation and Klingons, mirrored the realities of the time, most specifically the Cold War, but also perestroika. Rura Penthe is unmistakably a gulag. Spock even invokes a Vulcan proverb: “Only Nixon could go to China.” Meanwhile, Kirk contemplates his own prejudices and the possibility of a universe without an enemy against which to wage war. Further, Nicholas Meyer, who’d helmed The Wrath of Khan , returned to the director’s chair, working from a script he co-wrote (with Denny Martin Flinn) based on an idea developed by Leonard Nimoy. And Meyer made the most of state-of-the-art technology, including the very-cool CGI that enabled Martia (Iman) to morph. At the time, the effect was only just starting to impress people who'd seen it put to use in the music video for Michael Jackson's song “Black or White” and in the film Terminator 2: Judgment Day .

Star Trek VI guest stars included Kim Cattrall as the duplicitous Lt. Valeris, David Warner as Klingon Chancellor Gorkon and Christopher Plummer as the Shakespeare-quoting General Chang. Memorable grace notes included the sight of George Takei as Captain Sulu racing to assist the Enterprise and Captain Kirk, and appearances by Michael Dorn (as Colonel Worf), Mark Lenard (as Sarek), John Schuck (reprising his Star Trek IV role as the Klingon Ambassador) and Brock Peters (reprising his Star Trek IV role as Admiral Cartwright).

Make no mistake, Star Trek VI is far from perfect. It’s a bit dated and a tad slow. Many of the costumes worn by the original cast seem worn out, as if they were simply pulled off a hanger and dry cleaned rather than remade for the latest production.

• There’s lots more to love and to debate. We'll start the ball rolling with the following:
• "If I were human I believe my response would be 'Go to hell.'... If I were human."
• Kirk against Kirk, mano a mano
• Uhura saves the day (“The thing must have a tailpipe.”) Great moment for Nichols and the Uhura character, but, really? A tailpipe on a starship?

• Montgomery Scott, action hero
• Fuschia blood... or hot pink or purple... or... what color is that, actually? (Whatever it was, it was a digital effect)
• Christian Slater’s cameo
• “I’d give real money if he’d shut up”

• References to not just Shakespeare, but Sherlock Holmes and Peter Pan
• “Must have been your lifelong ambition”
• Just how great was Cliff Eidelman's score?
• "Is it possible that we two, you and I, have grown so old and so inflexible that we have outlived our usefulness?"
• "You have not experienced Shakespeare until you have read him in the original Klingon."
• The cast’s farewell signatures during the end-credit sequence

OK, what's your opinion of Star Trek VI ? How does it hold up? Where does it rank amongst the TOS fetaures? What are your favorite/least favorite aspects of the film?

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