Grace Lee Whitney, best known for portraying Captain James T. Kirk’s (William Shatner) personal assistant in the original “Star Trek” series, and several of its subsequent films, died Friday in her ...

While many of us are celebrating Star Wars Day — May the Fourth be with you! — some of us are sad over in Trekkie land. Grace Lee Whitney, who played Yeoman Janice Rand on Star Trek: The Original ...

With each new announcement surrounding Star Trek: Discovery, it’s become increasingly clear how intertwined it’s going to be with the original Star Trek. From the news that the show would be a prequel ...

For the 30th Anniversary of Star Trek, the episode Flashback featured the return of Grace Lee Whitney, along with George Takei, Jeremy Roberts, and Boris Krutonog, all of whom reprised their roles ...

Were you sad the U.S.S. Enterprise was such a sausage-fest in the most recent Star Trek? Then there’s good news: co-writers Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman tell io9 the next film could feature one of ...

Grace Lee Whitney, known to legions of Star Trek fans as Yeoman Janice Rand, died Friday in her Coarsegold, California home at 85, her son announced today. It was through Gene Roddenberry’s vision of ...

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Though her screen time was relatively brief, Janice Rand appeared in a number of expanded media tie-ins with the series and films. The TOS novel Enterprise: The First Adventure by Vonda N. McIntyre ...

Actress Grace Lee Whitney, who was most well known for playing Yeoman Janice Rand on the original “Star Trek” series, died May 1 in Coarsegold, Calif. She was 85. A recovering alcoholic, she helped ...