Majel Roddenberry (aka the computer voice aka Lwaxana Troi) has died

[AggieDave 6]

As a closet Trekie (as in I don't speak Klingon or go to conventions), this is another sad day in the Star Trek universe. She is the computer voice in the new movie as well.


http://www.cbc.ca/arts/film/story/2008/12/18/roddenberry-majel-obit.html

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Star Trek's Majel Roddenberry dies

Majel Barrett Roddenberry, Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry's widow and a fixture of nearly every incarnation of the space travel franchise, died on Thursday. She was 76.

Roddenberry, who suffered from leukemia, died at home in Bel Air, Calif., according to a spokesperson.

Before Star Trek, the Ohio-born actress worked on a range of television shows, including Bonanza and Leave it to Beaver.

She was romantically involved with Roddenberry when he launched Star Trek in the mid-1960s. Though he cast her as the USS Enterprise's unnamed first officer in his pilot, she would go on to fame as the secondary character Nurse Chapel in the original series and in subsequent films. The couple married in 1969.

Roddenberry reappeared in the revamped Star Trek: The Next Generation as one of its beloved reoccurring characters: Betazoid ambassador Lwaxana Troi and as the voice of the starship's onboard computer — a job she would also hold on spin-offs Deep Space Nine and Voyager, audio books, animated series, video games as well as on the forthcoming J.J. Abrams prequel film.

After her husband's death in 1991, Roddenberry continued his legacy by helping bring to life other TV projects he had been working on, including the television series Earth: Final Conflict and Andromeda.

Roddenberry is survived by her son, Eugene Roddenberry Jr.

--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline."

[diverdriver 7]

I think she lived long and prospered.

[SuFantasma 0]

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I think she lived long and prospered.

Maybe she went where not man has been before ....

Y yo, pa' vivir con miedo, prefiero morir sonriendo, con el recuerdo vivo".
- Ruben Blades, "Adan Garcia"

[tigra 0]

I loved her character on TNG ...........


Sad day indeed .............

[Gene03 0]

Well put Chris.

Has anyone ever gotten into the tons of Star Trek short stories Roddenberry wrote but never made it into the series or movies?

“The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues with him.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec quotes (Polish writer, poet and satirist 1906-1966)

[Jewels 0]

I'm sad to know that she's gone! I really liked her.

TPM Sister #102

[Guest]

I met her a couple of times over the years at cons.

The last one was in 1994.

We were talking in a ballroom lobby area when a fanboy came up and started asking her for an explanation or definition of some kind of technobabble from one of the shows.

I looked at the fanboy (I can't remember if he had ears or not), and said "Look, it's all BS!"

Majel looked at me, and then at the fanboy, and said "Yeah, but it's fun BS!" And we laughed.

Those were good times....

Go easy Majel.

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