Majel Barrett Roddenberry will not be down for Breakfast

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Majel Barrett Roddenberry will not be down for Breakfast

Post by Purpura » Fri Dec 19, 2008 1:09 pm

She's beamed up, to be with Gene Roddenberry -Creator of the original Star Trek....

Rest in Peace Majel, and thank you for keeping Gene's dreams alive...


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Re: Majel Barrett Roddenberry will not be down for Breakfast

Post by GRUMPY PIRATE » Fri Dec 19, 2008 1:14 pm

Yeah, sad. I read about that this morning in the San Diego Onion.


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Re: Majel Barrett Roddenberry will not be down for Breakfast

Post by Big Wallaby » Fri Dec 19, 2008 1:16 pm

I want to use a funny Star Trek line, but nothing comes to mind that doesn't sound disrespectful.

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Re: Majel Barrett Roddenberry will not be down for Breakfast

Post by GRUMPY PIRATE » Fri Dec 19, 2008 1:31 pm

If you want a good read, "Star Trek Creator" is about Gene Roddenberry and has some sections that shows how she came into his life and helped him.

(if you havn't read it already)


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Re: Majel Barrett Roddenberry will not be down for Breakfast

Post by BRWombat » Fri Dec 19, 2008 2:33 pm

She probably had as much involvement in Star Trek over the years as anyone -- more if you count the different roles she played: from Number One in the original series pilot, to Nurse Chapel (later Dr. Chapel in the movies), to Lwaxana Troi in ST:TNG, to most of the computer voices that were heard. Rest in peace, Majel.


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Re: Majel Barrett Roddenberry will not be down for Breakfast

Post by mechurchlady » Fri Dec 19, 2008 2:58 pm

She influenced Star Trek and I always watched for her as she was one of my favourites of the years. Behind a good man is a great lady.


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Re: Majel Barrett Roddenberry will not be down for Breakfast

Post by felinefan » Sat Dec 20, 2008 2:14 am

Somehow I missed this; what did she die of?

That leaves William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Nichelle Nichols, George Takei, and Walter Koenig, from the original series. DeForest Kelly, Jimmy Doohan, and the actress who played Yeoman Janice Rand are gone, as is Mark Lenard, who played Spock's father; the guy who played Harvey Mudd committed suicide years ago; I don't know for sure if the actress who played Spock's mother is still alive or not.


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Re: Majel Barrett Roddenberry will not be down for Breakfast

Post by hobie16 » Sat Dec 20, 2008 11:49 am

How about all the guys in red uniforms who got killed off every week?


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Re: Majel Barrett Roddenberry will not be down for Breakfast

Post by GRUMPY PIRATE » Sat Dec 20, 2008 12:03 pm

hobie16 wrote:How about all the guys in red uniforms who got killed off every week?
Ha, you knew the red shirt guys were toast!!!!

they even made a sketch about it.!


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Re: Majel Barrett Roddenberry will not be down for Breakfast

Post by mechurchlady » Sat Dec 20, 2008 1:09 pm

http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/n ... 31355.html
10.23.2006
Spock's Mother, 'Father Knows Best' Star Jane Wyatt Remembered
Jane Wyatt, television icon and mother to Spock, died peacefully at her Bel-Air home in California last Friday. She was 96.
A stage, film and television star, Wyatt is best remembered as the supportive and iconic mother Margaret Anderson in Father Knows Best, alongside Robert Young. It was for this role that she won three Emmys in a row (1958-60). Star Trek fans will of course remember Wyatt as Spock's caring mother and Sarek's devoted wife Amanda in "Journey to Babel," a role she reprised in "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Roddenberry
He was married twice and his son Eugene was him and Majel's child. He has from the first marriage Darlene who died in 1995 and Dawn.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majel_Barrett
She died from complications of leukemia.


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