“The Enemy Within” Editorial Cartoon
Thought you’d all appreciate this cartoon from an old issue of Starlog. Related to the “Enemy Within” discussion we had on women in TOS, and “The Enemy Within” in particular, on Monday.
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Talking Women in TOS with FirstTimeTrek
I first heard of Andi and her First Time Trekker project to live-tweet her spontaneous first reactions to all the episodes of Star Trek when she was interviewed on All Things Trek. When I heard she was a fair ways into watching TOS (she started with TNG), and knowing she’s a feminist, I wanted to chat …
On Rand as “Miss Kitty”
Whitney remembered Roddenberry’s description of Janice Rand. She would be as Gunsmoke’s Miss Kitty was to Matt Dillon. The Marshal could always talk his problems over with his favorite saloon girl, she knew him better than anyone else. That was the relationship Roddenberry wanted Rand and Kirk to have. The Captain could confide in her, …
“A Touch of Grace” (Lee Whitney)
Interview with Grace Lee Whitney (Janice Rand) in the March 1987 issue of Starlog. Here are some of the highlights for me. On Rand’s role (as written in Star Trek: IV): “Chapel and Rand were involved in the crisis situation, for which they gave us five pages of dialogue to read. We didn’t know how …
“The Enemy Within” – TOS 1X4
This is one of the big episodes we discussed in our recent episode of All Things Trek on men and masculinity in Star Trek, because it’s about the qualities that make a man a leader. In a transporter accident at the beginning of “The Enemy Within”, Kirk gets split into two, in the vein of Dr. …
“Miri” TOS 1X10
The Enterprise has just detected an Earth-style distress signal but they’re hundreds of light-years from Earth. The guys work intensely, hunched over their consoles. Yeoman Janice Rand stands in the background with her portable tricorder over shoulder. If her job is just to stand there while shit’s going down, what does she do on slow …