Currently watching "What You Leave Behind" - the final episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
So it's very appropriate that this post should remember Majel Barrett-Roddenberry (born Majel Lee Hudec), the widow of "Star Trek" creator Gene Roddenberry and the voice of the USS Enterprise computer, who died on Thursday after battling leukemia, which was diagnosed earlier this year. She was 76.
She reprised her role as the ship's computer once again, this time for the 2009 motion picture relaunch of Star Trek. According to Sean Rossall, a Roddenberry family spokesman, she had already completed the voiceover work for the new movie, due out next May.
Besides her work on Star Trek, Ms Barrett appeared in shows such as Bonanza and The Untouchables and she was executive producer of Sci-Fi series Earth: Final Conflict and Andromeda.
Trek creator's widow dies aged 76
It was sad to hear of Majel Barrett's passing. Oddly though, while I remember her as Nurse Christine Chapel from Star Trek: The Original Series (later Doctor Chapel in Star Trek: The Motion Picture), and the Betazoid Ambassador Lwaxana Troi (mother of counselor Deanna Troi) in numerous episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation & Deep Space Nine, I never really connected her to the role of Number One from the original Star Trek pilot, "The Cage," until now.
To the "First Lady" of the Federation - Rest In Peace...
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