In “The Enemy Inside,” a transporter malfunction bifurcates Kirk, splitting him into a mild, kindly half, and an aggressive, merciless half. As one may predict, the Evil Kirk drinks, carouses, and assaults his underlings, Yeoman Rand specifically. Evil Kirk encounters Rand and instantly strikes in to harm her. Whitney did not just like the content material of the scene, and filming it wasn’t enjoyable. Rand was knocked to the ground. Weirdly, she was solely directed to make the violent scene look as photogenic as attainable, a wierd mandate, given the content material. When requested in regards to the scene, Whitney stated:
“It was very troublesome. [‘Star Trek’ creator Gene] Roddenberry was there and he needed it to be actual however glamorous. And I believed ‘how are you going to try this?’ I used to be very black and blue for some time. Shatner threw me round for some time and I did all my stunts. We did many takes. Then to make it even tougher, afterwards I needed to just do the alternative scene after I go cry to Spock. However I used to be very proud of the work.”
Whitney’s efficiency is spectacular, however one can see the problem she skilled on digital camera.
Rand’s assault was, fairly tragically, mirrored by a real-life assault that Whitney skilled behind the scenes. The actress by no means revealed the title of her attacker (he’s solely ever referred to in her autobiography as “the manager”), however she did reveal that one of many “Star Trek” producers, in August of 1966, lured her to a non-public room on the studio lot and victimized her. Whitney credit the assault and her subsequent sudden firing — her being let go was a budgetary situation and never related to her assault — to some substance abuse issues she developed shortly thereafter.