Gene Roddenberry’s widow and Star Trek’s first lady died of lukemia at 76. She was best known as Nurse Chapel, unless you’re a Next Generation freak, in which case, she was best known as Lwaxana Troi. She will appear as the voice of The Enterprise in the upcoming Star Trek movie.
Majel Barrett Roddenberry
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Damn. She was always a sassy gal and I always loved her appearances on TNG and DS9.
I’m heartbroken. 🙁
She was the voice of the computer for TNG, DS9, Voyager and all the movies.
She was a goddess.
She was also Number One, Captain Pike’s second in command, in “The Cage”, the original pilot for Star Trek (which was later repurposed as flashbacks in the two part episode “Menagerie”)
Waaaaaaaah! Waaaaaaaah! Waaaaaaaaaaaah!
Of course this would happen during the Bush administration! He’s destroyed our economy, our environment, our armed forces, our credibility! His toxic miasma is destroying everything he hold dear! The spirit and heart of Star Trek was just another victim of his evil!
It was her voice that was modulated in TOS as well for the computer voice.
I know way more Star Trek trivia than any woman should…
Is “lukemia” a disease passed on to her by Skywalker?
Spelling, please. Especially on a snow day. Try dictionary.com if you don’t have a book.
Forgive me, but what do you mean, she was Troi?
Troi is the family name @9.
Damn, she wasn’t exactly the finest actress, but she was a fierce protector of Roddenberry’s legacy, and of the “Star Trek” franchise in particular.
A sad day; for Trekkers/ies/ists, it’s the equivalent of losing another Beattle.
This makes me sad in ways I cannot express.
She was wonderful. I still remember “Shame on you for what you’re thinking, Jean-Luc.”
All all the many, many, many, many vaginas that sheathed Gene Roddenberry’s warp core, her’s was the most human.
Fuck, Bones, Scotty and Chapel died while Bush was in the White House. He really did fuck the world up!
I was just watching the episode where she was trying to meet up with her fiance (“What Little Girls Are Made Of?”) and ends up deciding to stay aboard (as Bones Head Assistant).
Oh yeah, that episode also featured the hottest chick to wear a halter top pantsuit in the history of entertainment, Sherry Jackson:
http://vampjac.com/lj/pulchritude/2008/T…
Damn it Jim I’m a doctor not a escalator.
She was in many ways the real Number One. RIP, and thanks, lady. Love Nimoy but it woulda been pretty goddamn cool to see Jim Kirk skipper the Enterprise with you nearly running the show.
Sad!
@14 but Sulu got gay-married. For awhile at least.
She was very classy and I had a gay-boy crush on her sense of chic style when I was a little boy. RIP.
@19,
No, he’s still married. You’ll see.
So either she just got to see JJ Abrahms new movie version, or she chose not to.
The new movie looks awesome.
Damnit!
Honestly, I always found the Lwaxanna episodes kind of annoying, but she really was matriarch of the Star Trek family and it just won’t be the same without her. If you count her work as the computer’s voice, she’s been in every single show and movie (uhm, besides Enterprise? I don’t know, I didn’t watch that shit). I mean, how’s that for a lynchpin?
Maybe we can take her ashes into space like Gene’s were?
RIP, Majel Roddenberry
Rest in Peace Majel. Loved you for years.
I liked some of the Lwaxanna episodes though a few of them were stretched. She was fun.
> Fuck, Bones, Scotty and Chapel died while Bush was in the White House.
Don’t forget Mark Lenard, who played the unnamed Romulan Commander in ‘Balance of Terror’, the first Klingon seen in ‘The Motion Picture’…and Sarek, Spock’s father, in TOS, STIII, STIV, and STVI, and TNG.