Grace Lee Whitney, Yeoman Janice Rand from the original Star Trek, has died. She was 85.
From StarTrek.com:
Whitney, a blue-eyed blond beauty, represented one of Star Trek’s greatest cautionary tales and also one of the franchise’s most satisfying renaissance stories. She played the deeply professional Rand in eight first-season TOS episodes before being dropped from the series and slipping into an abyss of drugs and alcohol that left her, quite literally, on Hollywood’s Skid Row. She finally got help, found God, and reclaimed her life and career, with an assist from Leonard Nimoy, and spent decades helping others overcome their own addictions.
In 1998, Whitney published her memoir, The Longest Trek: My Tour of the Galaxy.
“Star Trek Remembering Grace Lee Whitney” (StarTrek.com)