Perhaps the only real excitement during the first week of the Whitewater trial was created outside the courtroom by an alternate juror. Barbara Adams, 31, showed up each day dressed in a Star Trek uniform, complete with replicas of the "tricorder" and "phaser" worn by characters in the television series.
Adams, president of the local "ship," or chapter, of the Federation Alliance, a Star Trek fan group, said she wore the outfit to court to promote the program's "ideals, messages and good solid values."As she left court one day, the Brooklyn-born juror, who has lived in Arkansas since she was 16, went on to discuss her devotion to "Star Trek" with a correspondent for a television tabloid shows.
By Thursday morning, however, Adams had apparently been transported to another sector of the galaxy, and when jurors entered, she was not among the crew. An order filed later in the day noted that in a closed hearing the judge had excused Adams because "she had behaved in a manner which violated the court's order."