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Majel Barrett-Roddenberry to Play Computer Voice in New Star Trek Movie

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By GustavoLeao / 00:47, 11 December 2008 / Star Trek: Nemesis

Acccording to Variety, TOS and TNG actress Majel Barrett-Roddenberry, the widow of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, will reprise her role as the voice of the starship Enterprise computer in J.J. Abrams' upcoming Star Trek feature. She's voiced the role in four Star Trek TV series and three films, according to Variety.

The actress played the role of Number One in the first 1964 pilot The Cage and later played Nurse Chapel in The Original Series and Lwaxana Troi on The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine. She also provided the voice for the ship computers for the spin-off Trek series and Next Generation feature films.

The original article can be found at Variety. 



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By: OV-101 (Odo's file, contact) @ 08:52:36 on Dec 11, 2008 | Edit History (1)

Wasn't Majel's voice used in most of the TOS computer-voice eps? I think I read online that her voice was used then as well. Nice tie-in, IMO. I think the clicking sounds of the TOS computers and the monotone voice is probably obsolete so I would agree the TNG version might be more relevant.

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