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 Majel Barrett-Roddenberry has passed 
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I guess she'd been battling Leukemia. So sad...

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Thu Dec 18, 2008 5:10 pm
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Aw, too bad! She really cared about keeping things "Roddenberry" in the ST universe.

Besides playing a couple of roles in the original series (Spock's mother and Nurse Chapel) she was also the voice of the Enterprise computer. If I understand correctly, she also gave voice to the computer in the forthcoming JJ Abrams re-boot.

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I just read that myself...I wonder what her thoughts were on the upcoming movie...

Kind of hard to imagine what a long strange trip the Star Trek thing would have been...lackluster beginnings and legendary history...and seeing Capt. Kirk marrying Stargate's Dr. Jackson on another TV show...wow...


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Wow, that's awful.

Did she have any creative control over the franchise at that point, or does Wesley?


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Oh, I hadn't heard... that's too bad :( RIP

I heard she was going to do the computer voice in the new Star Trek coming out next year. I hope they had already recorded...as I'm writing this I realized they can use her sound bites from every other Star Trek series :?

I just got to meet Leonard Nimoy from Star Trek last Friday...nice fellow.

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Dean wrote:
Aw, too bad! She really cared about keeping things "Roddenberry" in the ST universe.

Besides playing a couple of roles in the original series (Spock's mother and Nurse Chapel) she was also the voice of the Enterprise computer. If I understand correctly, she also gave voice to the computer in the forthcoming JJ Abrams re-boot.

RIP


She also flirted with Patrick Stewart when she played Troi's mother in TNG. Sad news....esp as she never got to see the finished cut of the new movie.

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