Are we to assume that she was hidden offscreen/in the bowels of the ship between the events of TOS S1 and TMP? Was it ever explained onscreen what happened to her character?
The Elusive Janice Rand
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she probably got some phony online degree, judging from her transporter skills. either that or she choked under the pressure of being on the Ent with kirk again
how'd u like to be a hard-working vulcan officer who meets an untimely demise due to a n00b working the transporter?
Hey it only took her 5 years to finish the course. Chapel became a doctor is less time.
She got knocked up by Evil Kirk and went to have his baby, naturally. Along the way she found Jesus.
Yes. She was transferred below decks where she took over the job Chekov had down there before his transfer to the bridge.
I don't recall the name of the story, but in one of DC's annuals back when they were doing Star Trek comics, they published a story in which Rand had indeed transferred to another ship due to her feelings for Kirk, and her ship was lost and she hooked up to a type of psycho-projection machine that allowed her to send memory flashes to Kirk which ultimately led them to rescue her.
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I was thinking that she might have shown up in one of the novels; the movie novelization would have been the ideal place for that.
No, it was a Marvel comic, from their post-TMP run. "Eclipse of Reason", IIRC. Janice was the only human on a ship of beings rather like Medusans.
Yep:
#12 Mar 1981
Eclipse of reason
A starship with Janice Rand aboard, attempts to pass the galactic energy barrier. The crew goes mad and returns to their homeworld with the Enterprise in pursuit. Stardate 8180.7
Writers: Allan Brennart, Martin Pasko
Penciller: Luke McDonnel
Inker: Tom Palmer
http://homepage.mac.com/mmtz/stcomix/marvel1tos.html
Marvel also released it as a mass market paperback reprint, "The Further Adventures of the Starship Enterprise".
http://homepage.mac.com/mmtz/stcomix/marvel1pb.html
She does (in I, II - even though not in that movie - IV, VI, VOY's "Flashback" and the novelization of "Starfleet Academy" CD-ROM game)! Plus:
That's not the one I was thinking of, but that looks pretty good too. In the one I'm thinking of, the ship has been destroyed and she's on a planet. If I go to my parents' house tomorrow, I'll get it, I know right where it is.
Don't forget that she's got a non-speaking part in Star Trek III, as Enterprise comes back into spacedock.
That was the novelization I was thinking she'd most likely appear in.
You've never discovered "Memory Beta"? Just follow any of those hyperlinks in the list I provided.
Thanks. I intend to.
And so says my doctor..., a Dr Soong.
Well, I didn't mention that because the OP was asking about novels, and that scene isn't there in the ST III novelization. (Others say it's Rand's sister, due to the command rank she wears in that film!)
She's not in the ST III novelization because director Nimoy added the scene after the close of principal photography. It's not scripted as Rand, and Vonda McIntyre wouldn't have known to add the scene to the novelization. The Spacedock Cafeteria scene was filmed at ILM, not Paramount, and Grace Lee Whitney was sworn to secrecy about her cameo until the wrap party!
Rand is a character in the novelization of "ST II: The Wrath of Khan", however, and so is Dr Chapel. To get Janice back to Spacedock in time to witness the return of Enterprise in ST III, we have to assume that she (and Chapel) accompany to Earth the worst injured cadets in the USS Firenze, which is said to be rendezvousing with Enterprise while it's on its way to rescue Kyle, Beach and other Reliant crew marooned by Khan.
Got it:
Annual #5, Series II, 1994
The dream walkers
"Crewmembers of the Enterprise begin experiencing vivid daydreams of past missions, even dreaming of events that they didn't participate in. Neither Spock nor McCoy have any answers, but after some discussion, it becomes apparent that Janice Rand is the common denominator in every dream. Kirk inquires about Rand and learns that she is missing-in-action following a covert mission to investigate the Chuniikites, a hostile race engaged in a civil war. Kirk begins searching for Rand when Spock theorizes that she may be transmitting clues to her whereabouts via the dreams. Using coordinates taken from dream clues, the Enterprise arrives at an unexplored system with a single inhabitable planet. In a city of ruins, Kirk finds Rand asleep and wired into tiers of sleeping aliens. He unplugs her and begins experiencing another daydream just as the Chuniikites arrive in force. With Rand's help, he awakens in time to escape the dreaming aliens and elude the aggressive Chuniikites. Stardate 5268.1"
http://homepage.mac.com/mmtz/stcomix/dc2tosann.html
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