Majel Barrett-Rodenberry reprises Star Trek role
Variety had a little news brief that was passed along to me. It turns out the Leonard Nimoy isn’t only Trek alum that will reprising a role in the new JJ Abrams vision of Star Trek.
Majel Barrett-Rodenberry will also reprise her role as the voice of the shipboard computer for The Enterprise. She has provided the regular voice of starship onboard computers for Star Trek: The Original Series, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager. She even voiced the shipboard computer in the two episodes of the prequel series Star Trek: Enterprise.
Barrett is the widow of Star Trek creator, Gene Rodenberry. She is known as the “The First Lady of Star Trek.” Barrett has been in every incarnation of Star Trek in some kind of capacity not just as a computer voice either. Her first appearance was in Star TrekTOS in the initial pilot episode, The Cage, as the USS Enterprise’s unnamed First Officer, Number One.
Her role in subsequent episodes of Star Trek was that of Nurse Christine Chapel. In an early scene in Star Trek: The Motion Picture, viewers are informed that she has now become Doctor Chapel, a role which she reprises in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.
Barrett also provided several voices for Star Trek: The Animated Series, including those of Nurse Chapel, communications officer M’Ress. She would return in Star Trek: The Next Generation, as the Betazoid Ambassador Lwaxana Troi, who was a regular character in the series, as Troi, she would also later appear in several episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
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I think it is cool that the “First Lady of Star Trek” is in the movie and is probably an attempt to get longtimes to perceive it as her blessing on his version of Trek, which is kind of hypocritical since he has said on numerous occaisons that “this movie isn’t for Star Trek Fans”.
