[About the famous 'Yeoman Rand' basketweave hair-do from the original Star Trek series] "It was so heavy it kept listing to the left, I swear they had to nail that thing to my head! It was gorgeous Max Factor hair. It cost a lot of money and somebody stole it. I still have visions of that damn wig turning up. I go down to skid row for my recovery program - I'm clean and sober now - and I keep expecting to find some bag lady or drag queen to be wearing it!" When asked if she is surprised at how popular Star Trek has become: "Oh yeah. It was an acting gig and we thought that Spock was weird and we thought the only reason we were being hired was to sell color television sets, and wasn't Kirk cute. I mean gosh he was cute! I was in the middle of the both of them (Kirk and Spock). Then after the series I went on to do Star Trek The Motion Picture, and that was supposed to be a series originally. They wrote it as a series, and when Star Wars came out Paramount jumped off the roof and they went into the Motion Picture, and George Takei and I did Voyager. That was going to be a series. We were supposed to have our own show, and they did Enterprise instead. It was supposed to be George and Gracie on the Excelsior." (iFmagazine,Oct.2006) About Star Trek: Of Gods and Men: "It's cute because I have a nice interchange with Pavel Chekov, and I have a nice interchange with Uhura. It's like old times. It's all very déjà vu. It's like no time has gone by at all. We did Voyager in 1996. It's like ten years, and in Star Trek 10 years is not very long at all. Look at how much time was between the original series and the Motion Picture." (iFmagazine,Oct.2006) When asked for her opinion on Star Trek XI being a prequel film: "I don't know how that's going to go. I just don't know about that. I don't know how fans will react to that. How can you go back beyond the classic Trek? They tried that on Enterprise, but did it go, did it work? I think Scott Bakula was terrific on that show. But it didn't last as long as some of the others, and I wonder what happened and why that is." (iFmagazine,Oct.2006)