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The latter was her final screen appearance as a Star Trek character. The fifth episode of fan-produced Star Trek Continues, episode "Divided We Stand" (released September 26, 2015), was dedicated to her "lovely and endearing spirit". In 2009, Whitney appeared in the British Channel 4 TV film Bring Back... Star Trek with Justin Lee Collins. [36]
This episode was produced along with Star Trek: Deep Space Nine ' s "Trials and Tribble-ations" as part of the Star Trek franchise's 30th anniversary, with both series featuring characters from Star Trek: The Original Series; Hikaru Sulu (George Takei) and Janice Rand (Grace Lee Whitney) appear in this episode.
Rand was portrayed by American actress Grace Lee Whitney, who had previously worked with Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry in a pilot for a show he created called Police Story. Whitney as Rand was involved in promoting Star Trek before it aired, but did not appear in the first two pilots. Roddenberry set out the role of Rand to Whitney, saying ...
Grace Lee Whitney appeared in eight episodes as yeoman Janice Rand, beginning with "The Man Trap". Whitney left the series after "The Conscience of the King", [21] [29] [30] but would later make minor appearances in the first, third, fourth, and sixth Star Trek films as well as one episode of the companion series Star Trek: Voyager.
IGN ranked "The Naked Time" the 8th best episode of The Original Series in 2016 [9] and the 12th best episode of all Star Trek series in 2013. [10] In 2016, USA Today noted "The Naked Time" as an interesting episode of the Star Trek franchise. [11] In 2018, PopMatters ranked this the 11th best episode of The Original Series. [12]
In their compendium of Star Trek reviews, Trek Navigator, Mark A. Altman and Edward Gross both viewed the episode negatively, describing it as having aged badly because of the hippie characters and also noting the poor musical parts of the episode. [6] Grace Lee Whitney, who had played Janice Rand in early episodes of the show, described the ...
In their 2003 book, Beyond the Final Frontier: An Unauthorised Review of Star Trek, Mark Jones and Lance Parkin described "The City on the Edge of Forever" as "Rightly regarded as the highlight of original Star Trek" and the "epitome of what Star Trek does best". They said that having Kirk allow Keeler to die was "horrifying and heart-rending ...
In 2016, The Hollywood Reporter rated "The Corbomite Maneuver" the 45th best television episode of all Star Trek franchise television prior to Star Trek: Discovery, including live-action and the animated series but not counting the movies. [8] In 2016, they ranked this episode as the 16th greatest episode of the original series. [9]