STAR TREK III: THE SEARCH FOR SPOCK:Was "Woman In Cafeteria" Janice Rand?

A person and I disagreed over a certain cameo in Star Trek III. Was Janice Rand in Star Trek III?   When I was a child, my mother and father pointed out that the woman within the Spacedock scene watching the Enterprise enter was Janice Rand.  In the credits, she is listed as “Woman in Cafeteria”.  The late Grace Lee Whitney is playing the woman in a Star Fleet uniform.  Director Nimoy added her to the scene because he wanted to include her, and she showed up in his IV.  I think Nimoy felt bad for the way Hollywood treated her.  

Anyway, since that moment, I always felt it was Rand.  But, I had no idea some fans didn’t believe it was her.  Whitney is just playing another character.  For me, I believe it is Rand.  If you look closely, “Woman in Cafeteria” gives a disapproving look and shakes her.  The head shakes and her expression says, “There they go again” as she looks at the damage.  Rand was in battle aboard the Enterprise, so she knows its reputation.  

Now, her rank is all over the place in the movies.  She was a commissioned officer in the show and TMP, but her appearance in III shows she is an officer.  However, she wears a noncom uniform in IV.  Yet, she is a high-ranking officer in VI.  

Side Note:  I’ve been looking at old photos of Whitney and her post-TOS days.  After cleaning herself up and getting more close to fans, she seemed happier.  She hated her experience during the filming of TOS but loved the Trek universe.  She even came back to Voyager with a larger role.  Google her convention photos. She loved how kind the fans were.

RIP, Grace, you were the best.

The not so Mighty Zoe Quinn

Just think: GG would have died on the vine if she hadn't made a false copyright claim.  

I went through Zoe Quinn’s KF with GG being ten years old.  Since her grift on GG, she keeps stumbling upward and downward.  She had an anti-harassment site, which she lost interest in and abandoned.  She decided to become a professional wrestler, realizing the hard work, lost interest in it and abandoned it.  

Furthermore, she got 85K to do a stupid FWV videogame based on some Chuck Tingle books.  Get this, she lost interest and abandoned it.  She hasn’t even bothered to log into her Kickstarter account since Feb 27, 2021.  So, yeah, 85K for a project that went nowhere.  You have to love the irony that her backers were some of her defenders during GG and have been thrown aside.  I won’t get into Alec Holowka’s suicide, but she was involved in that too.  

Given her post-GG history, Zoe has done more damage than even GG could imagine.  It is like she is one blue-haired tornado campaign of hate.  She was a carpetbagger who duped some people out of money, and no one from her side would take her to task for it.  

She's burned more bridges than a retreating army.

Happy anniversary, Zoe. 

Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle DVD Menu

These two are breaking that fourth wall.  Remember, Harold and Kumar Go To White Castles is twenty years old.  I remember watching this menu screen thing way back in the day.  A lot of DVDs will have hidden things like this one.  I love how Kumar gets angry with you if you don’t hit something. 

In the Mummy DVD, the original release, you can hear the entire Jerry Goldsmith score in the menu screen of the listening options.  

I also like the Zoolander DVD menu too.  Zoolander will talk to you during the menu sequence.   Mugatu’s dance will change if you let it run through the cycle.  His dances are sillier in the second round.  Did Will Ferrell film these just for the DVD? His dancing is in step with the music on the menu.