Majel Barrett Roddenberry, wife of Star Trek Creator Gene Roddenberry and a presence in every Star Trek franchise since she played Nurse Chapel in the original television series has died aged 76 of leukemia.
OK, this is how much of a total dork I am: Roddenberry played Captain Christopher Pike's original first officer on the unaired original pilot, 'The Cage'- she played Nurse Chapel (and then Dr. Chapel in the first movie) in the original show. She played Lwaxana Troi, the mother of Counselor Deanna Troi in Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, but I believe she holds the record for most appearances in Star Trek of any type full stop because of her one, almost iconic role in the franchise: she was the voice of the computer- whether on Voyager, Deep Space Nine or the Enterprise, you pretty much hear her voice in every single episode of Star Trek every made in probably the past twenty years or so. And she was the voice of the computers in the new movie coming out next May.
The Enterprise computer has lost its voice.
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