Yeoman Rand/Star Trek/Hollywood/Reality

idea of seeing a young Yeoman Rand in SNW, would this be something you’d like to see, personally I’d be interested.t you think of the idea of seeing a young Yeoman Rand in SNW, would this be something you’d like to see, personally I’d be interested.

The Question was asked of me about incorporating Yeoman Rand into Strange New Worlds, ok, I'll bite.

First, the ‘crew’ producing and writing Strange New Worlds (SNW) is doing an excellent job incorporating TOS (the original series) characters past into SNW. I say this before suggesting that Yeoman Rand should be a new Yeoman/member of the Enterprise Crew right when Kirk takes command. Perhaps a kind of prove yourself in a crisis story, perhaps from the perspective of a first assignment in Starfleet. To add to this, I would not make her an academy graduate. This is part of a pet peeve I have about Star Trek, because it does not talk enough about the role and participation of the enlisted.

                If you really want to honor Grace Lee Whitney, we should deal with what happened to her in the very real Hollywood of the 60’s and 70’s. I would not be averse to her getting sexually harassed and it being properly, but the only way I could see that done is by creating some exit story that happens well into TOS season 1 which would be difficult at best. Perhaps it can be done with some high-ranking Starfleet Officer who we might know from TOS being the harasser. Now that I am into this, we can have the drama play out when Kirk takes command with the ‘bad officer’ either doing or implying what he is doing to Yeoman Rand. When this ‘person’ gets caught might be the result of what made Yeoman Rand leave Starfleet, perhaps even her suicide. Although that drama is hard to work into TOS as we know, but I do have one scene of William Shatner as an old Kirk visiting Yeoman Rands grave (perhaps even sneak in Grace Lee Whitney’s real grave into it) paying his respects along with a scene of Starfleet dealing with the bad officer.

                I know there is a lot here, and it might say more about us/Hollywood than anything else. Perhaps we need to, or honor Grace somehow. you’d. like to see, personally I’d be interested