What was Yeoman Rand's job, exactly?

[Orrex]

[LeftyMom]

1. Mooning over Kirk?

[pokerfan]

2. You mean as a literary device?

To get into peril, apparently.

[dimbear]

3. Keeping Gene Roddenberry satisfied.

Same as Lieutenant Uhuru.

[whistler162]

9. Nah he had a computer to do that.

[WillParkinson]

4. Eye Candy...

A job for which she apparently was eminently qualified.

[CBGLuthier]

5. Personal Assistant to the Captain

I believe he stated once that he would have preferred a male yeoman but times did finally change in the future.

[Gold Metal Flake]

8. Correct.

[MicaelS]

6. Bringing shit for him to sign....

In the United States Navy and United States Coast Guard, a yeoman is a rating usually with secretarial, clerical, payroll or other administrative duties. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeoman

Oh man...I typed Yeoman in Google. and the SECOND term that comes up is for Janice Rand. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janice_Rand

[pokerfan]

10. Apparently they had tablet computers

but no email, digital signatures or pgp encryption...

[nolabear]

7. Keeping the saxophone player busy.

wah-waaaaaaaah.

[ornotna]

11. She was a hooker

[edbermac]

12. She'd help fire the captain's photon torpedo.