Yeoman Rand's Tower of Hair

[STEPhon IT]

LOOK! Oprah wearing the true color of Kirk's duty uniform.

 

[Albertese]

I wasn't around yet in the 60's but my grandma was about Grace Lee Whitney's age and I recall her collection of wigs in the 80's. Always wore them to church.

--Alex

 

[UssGlenn]

Chapels two tone blonde hair is especially noticeable.

 

[BK613]

Indeed, wigs and partial wigs or "wiglets." I was just talking about this to my mom, who was in hairdressing school around the same time. She said it was just understood that parts of really big hairstyles were added pieces. She couldn't address Star Trek in particular, but thought it might be a reasonable extrapolation, or even expectation, that futuristic hairdos would involve even more elaborate artificial additions. Nobody would think it was really the person's hair, but they wouldn't care, either.

Yea, my Mom had several of the styrofoam busts for wigs; some of those may have been used for target practice at some point .

 

[CorporalCaptain]

My mom helped put the spray in hairspray.

 

[Ryan Thomas Riddle]

Yeoman Rand's Tower of Hair should be the scary drop ride at a Star Trek theme park.

 

[PCz911]

People forget that wigs were still a thing in the 60s so someone wearing what was obviously a wig wouldn't have even been noticed.

Gerry Anderson’s UFO series…. Everyone wore wigs. And, when on duty on the moon, they ladies wore purple. They never explained why… but it was awesome

 

[Herbert]

Yeoman Rand's Tower of Hair should be the scary drop ride at a Star Trek theme park.

The Tower of Hairer

 

[Danja]

I'll go with this. My explanation for VOY hairstyles that looked like they took a Victorian lady's maid to produce every morning: hair replicators--you enter the style and stick in your head. This would be a precursor technology.

That would explain Janeway's bun and Seven's French braid.

Kirk's go to is "Love Shack".

A.K.A. the Captain's Quarters ...

Kirk: "You've been a bad girl. Go to my room."

 

[BK613]

Yeoman Rand's Tower of Hair should be the scary drop ride at a Star Trek theme park.

I'm thinking more of a reproduction that towers 947' high, with a roller coaster track weaving in and out runaway-mine-train style.

 

[Nerys Myk]

I'm thinking more of a reproduction that towers 947' high, with a roller coaster track weaving in and out runaway-mine-train style.

So Rand’s hair is some sort of TARDIS that contains the DISCO turbolift system?

 

[Commishsleer]

I think the worst thing abut the hair was that it was unflattering to the actress IMO.
I look at the publicity stills for the series and think Rand without the hair looked petty attractive with just normal hair and very cool.
Couldn't they have a space-do and make her look good?
I also thought Chapel's wigs were frankly terrible and made her look well not ugly but not great - well most of them anyway.
To stop me from ranting on I just think TOS could have improved hair all round - both girls and guys.

 

[BK613]

So Rand’s hair is some sort of TARDIS that contains the DISCO turbolift system?

There is a joke in here somewhere about the tardi-gradient of the track but I'm not sure where...

 

[Henoch]

Lwaxana Troi wore a wig, so, wig wearing in Star Trek is confirmed.

 

[Metryq]

There is a joke in here somewhere about the tardi-gradient of the track but I'm not sure where...

Tardigradient hair will not suffer from vacuum, and can be restored instantly with a little water.

 

[Danja]

Yeoman Rand (TOS)

Lt. Rand (ST: The Undiscovered Country)

It's a nice finish to someone who started their career serving coffee to Captain Kirk.

 

[JonnyQuest037]

This has been a question for decades. Does Captain Kirk wear a toupee, or just William Shatner?

What? Of course he doesn't. Who in the world sleeps in their toupee?

Was Uhura's hair intended to be real?

Yes, of course. So were Chekov's and McCoy's.

 

[1001001]

It's a nice finish to someone who started their career serving coffee to Captain Kirk.

And ended it by making fun of Tuvok serving tea to Captain Sulu...

 

[Danja]

And ended it by making fun of Tuvok serving tea to Captain Sulu...

I didn't watch that episode.

 

[Neopeius]

We just saw the last episode with Rand ("Balance of Terror") -- it will be sad to see her go, especially as I have fond memories of the one time I met Whitney (in '89). They never quite figured out what to do with her character.