Majel Barrett-Roddenberry (born Majel Lee Hudec on February 23, 1932 in Columbus, Ohio) is an American actress and widow of television director/producer/writer Gene Roddenberry. As a result of both her marriage to Gene Roddenberry (Star Trek's creator) and the fact that she has been in every Star Trek series, she is sometimes referred to as "The First Lady of Star Trek."

Majel Barrett played several onscreen roles in the various incarnations of Star Trek, the popular science fiction television series:

• She first appeared in Star Trek's initial pilot episode "The Cage" as the USS Enterprise's unnamed First Officer, "Number One". (According to the book The Real Story by Herbert Solow and Bob Justman, Barrett was cast as Number One because she was romantically involved with Roddenberry at the time. Solow and Justman claim the network was furious that Roddenberry would attempt to put an unknown actress in such a prominent role simply because she was his girlfriend, and allege that Roddenberry later claimed that the network told him to remove her because they did not want a woman to be in such a high position of authority.)
• Her role was changed to that of Nurse Christine Chapel when The Original Series became a regular series; she continued this role in The Motion Picture and The Voyage Home.
• She provided numerous voices for the animated The Animated Series series.
• Years later, she was cast as the outrageously determined and iconoclastic Betazoid Ambassador Lwaxana Troi, who was a recurring character in The Next Generation and who also appeared in some episodes of Deep Space Nine.
• She also provided the regular voice of starship onboard computers for the original Star Trek series, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, and the Star Trek movies. She reprised her role as a shipboard computer voice in two episodes of the prequel series Enterprise that involved later time periods.

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watching The Next Generation and Majel Barrett Roddenberry is cracking me up as Lwaxana Troi, she's quite the character
sg1clari (Claire Hutchinson) Thu, 24 Dec 2009 21:11:15 -0000
watching The Next Generation and Majel Barrett Roddenberry is cracking me up as Lwaxana Troi, she's quite the character

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