[Vision2020] Star Trek's Majel Roddenberry Dies

[Tom Hansen]

>From CBS News at:

http://tinyurl.com/Roddenberry
 
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Star Trek's Majel Roddenberry dies

Majel Barrett Roddenberry, Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry's widow and 
a fixture of nearly every incarnation of the space travel franchise, died 
on Thursday. She was 76.

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Majel Barrett-Roddenberry, shown in this 1994 file photo, died Thursday at 
her home in Bel-Air, Calif.
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Roddenberry, who suffered from leukemia, died at home in Bel Air, Calif., 
according to a spokesperson.

Before Star Trek, the Ohio-born actress worked on a range of television 
shows, including Bonanza and Leave it to Beaver.

She was romantically involved with Roddenberry when he launched Star Trek 
in the mid-1960s. Though he cast her as the USS Enterprise's unnamed first 
officer in his pilot, she would go on to fame as the secondary character 
Nurse Chapel in the original series and in subsequent films. The couple 
married in 1969.

Roddenberry reappeared in the revamped Star Trek: The Next Generation as 
one of its beloved reoccurring characters: Betazoid ambassador Lwaxana 
Troi and as the voice of the starship's onboard computer — a job she would 
also hold on spin-offs Deep Space Nine and Voyager, audio books, animated 
series, video games as well as on the forthcoming J.J. Abrams prequel film.

After her husband's death in 1991, Roddenberry continued his legacy by 
helping bring to life other TV projects he had been working on, including 
the television series Earth: Final Conflict and Andromeda.

Roddenberry is survived by her son, Eugene Roddenberry Jr.

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Beam her up, Scotty.

Rest well, Majel.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho
 
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