LOS ANGELES, May 4 (UPI) -- Grace Lee Whitney of Star Trek died Friday at the age of 85 in her home in Coarsegold, Calif.
Whitney played Capt. Kirk's assistant Janice Rand during the first season of the original Star Trek series in 1966. She returned to the franchise in 1979 as part of the film Star Trek: The Motion Picture and titled her autobiography The Longest Trek. She made her last appearance as Rand in the 1991 Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.