and Hart to Hart. In 1983, she had a small part in the television film The Kid with the 200 I.Q., with Gary Coleman. In 1998, she appeared in an episode of Diagnosis: Murder, which reunited her with her Star Trek colleagues George Takei, Walter Koenig, and Majel Barrett. Music In the 1960s and 1970s, she sang with a number of orchestras and bands, including the Keith Williams Orchestra. Later, she concentrated on jazz/pop vocalizing while fronting for the band Star. In the 1970s, with her second husband, Jack Dale, she wrote a number of Star Trek-related songs. A 45-rpm record was released in 1976 with the songs "Disco Trekkin’" (A side) and "Star Child" (B side). She recorded such tunes as "Charlie X", "Miri", "Enemy Within", and "USS Enterprise". Many of these songs were released in the 1990s on cassette tape: Light at the End of the Tunnel in 1996 and Yeoman Rand Sings! in 1999. Autobiography Whitney's autobiography, The Longest Trek: My Tour of the Galaxy, was released in 1998 (). Along with her hiring and firing from Star Trek, the book recounts her work as the first Chicken of the Sea mermaid and her struggles with and eventual recovery from alcohol and substance abuse. Personal life and death Whitney had two sons, Scott and Jonathan Dweck. She moved to Coarsegold, California in 1993 to be close to Jonathan, and she "continued her fellowship work in Fresno and Madera counties." Jonathan Dweck said his mother wanted to be known more as a survivor of addiction than as a Star Trek cast member. Whitney frequently attended Star Trek and science-fiction fan conventions from the 1980s. Her last film appearance (and as a Star Trek character) was in the fan fiction film Of Gods and Men in 2007. Her final screen appearance was in the William Shatner documentary The Captains in 2011. Whitney died of natural causes at her home in Coarsegold on May 1, 2015 at age 85. Filmography References External links 1930 births 2015 deaths 20th-century American actresses 20th-century American women writers Actors from Ann Arbor, Michigan Actresses from Michigan American adoptees American film actresses 20th-century American memoirists American musical theatre actresses American television actresses People from Coarsegold, California 20th-century American singers 20th-century American women singers American women memoirists 21st-century American women