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What's your favorite "yeoman moment"?

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skylark14

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The yeomen didn’t get much screen time to make an impression on us. They operated mostly in the background heightening the impression of a real ship that needed lower ranks as well as officers. Except for Rand, we would see each in only one episode. So if they were to touch us, they had to do it quickly with a facial expression, a few movements, some choice words. So, who succeeded? What’s your favorite yeoman moment? It can be a comic bit, a little show of heroism, a trenchant comment (please, forget the hotness factor just this once). I choose Yeoman Mears in Galileo 7 who showed grace in the middle of mortal fear and professionalism second only to Mr. Scott. (I choose to unsee the unfortunate frog jump at the end.)

On a secondary note, where did all the yeomen go? In running through them for this post, I can’t recall any after the Apple. Am I missing someone?
 
My favourites have to be Rand making hot coffee with her phaser, getting the Captain to look at her (scabby) legs while going quietly crazy (thank goodness she didn't try to get him to look at her boobs on the ship), and where they cut her line in her final episode in the Conscience of the King but she managed to speak volumes without saying a word.

As for the cheap knock-offs Tamura was a fiesty little thing and Mears deserves credit for being one of the more professional members of the shuttle crew. Also that yeoman who was crushed to powder just because she took one for the team and wasn't even the security guard. I have a soft spot for Rand though - the others lose points for just not being her.

I think as they tried to save money in the later episodes they cut back on superfluous characters and the yeoman of the week generally didn't serve much of a purpose apart from looking hot.
 
I think Yeoman Tonia Barrows from "Shore Leave" certainly stood out as perhaps the best yeoman we see in the series. She gets a lot of screentime with De Kelley, and is very memorable.

Yeoman Rand's best performance would be in "Charlie X," with a nod to "Miri."
 
I actually missed Rand a lot when she suddenly disappeared from the show and thought she deserved much better – at least a brief comment to the effect she had transferred. Very tacky of the folks in charge to presume we wouldn’t even notice. And I think the yeomen were far from superfluous. They added something to the mix that disappeared along with them in early season 2 – again I think it was a sense of freshness, fun and heightened reality. Lower-level personnel coming and going, transferring in and transferring out, novices to the dangers of space just like us. I doubt that most of them were paid very much anyway (the actors, not the yeomen). Even though I didn’t even have the word “hot” in my vocabulary back then (and if I had, would have applied it only to Spock), what they provided to me was not “hotness” but just a richer and more varied ship’s background for the prime cast to navigate in. And though I’ve tried to ban “hotness” from this thread, it’s wandered in here already by the second post.:rolleyes: So be it. Hotness is now allowed.
 
One of them, Mears in G7, "We're moving!" jumps on the floor, always gets a chuckle.
 
Potemkin_Prod said:
I think Yeoman Tonia Barrows from "Shore Leave" certainly stood out as perhaps the best yeoman we see in the series. She gets a lot of screentime with De Kelley, and is very memorable.

Yeoman Rand's best performance would be in "Charlie X," with a nod to "Miri."
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I have to agree with Yeoman Barrows. But I can only remember her and Yeoman Rand, although I wasn't too keen on her character.
 
I left out Tonia Barrows because she had the 'hot' factor more than anything else. She is certainly my favourite supporting yeoman.

Mears was originally written as Rand, and her part in the City on the Edge of Forever was re-written for Uhura. I think Uhura probably did benefit from Rand's absence the most. Apparently Rand was written into an early draft of the Trouble with Tribbles too.

If Rand had stayed, it's hard to say how many of the other yeomen wouldn't have appeared. Helen Noel was written in because they didn't want Kirk and Rand to be quite so familiar with each other so it's hard to say if Barrows would have been Rand. I think Rand might have appeared in the Squire of Gothos and we may never have got that interracial kiss either.
 
Yeomen seem to have completely disappeared off the Enterprise by the third season. "By Any Other Name" is the last episode to use the term.

CORRECTION: A yeoman does appear in "Wink of an Eye", serving the bridge crew coffee, but she is not named.
 
Yes, Marlena Moreau, right. :)

Hmm... in our universe, she seemed to be. Or was she some sort of crew in Engineering. I always thought she was a yeoman in this universe. Was she wearing a red uniform or blue, though? I've forgotten.
 
In neither universe was she referred to as a Yeoman. In the mirror universe, her title was "Captain's woman." In the prime universe, she was a lieutenant, although she seemed to be performing the duties of a yeoman.
 
^that can happen. But I realize that she perhaps wasn't a yeoman in this universe but it wasn't spelled out. It's obvious she was "the captain's woman" in the MU, but it's not clear what her actual rank and designation were there, either. Also, as far as I remember (which isn't a whole lot because I haven't watched that ep in a while; need to rectify that fact), we also don't know if she was actually in the fleet or if she had just sort of come along for the ride (with Kirk or any other captain), pun intended.
 
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