2017-12-18

Majel Leigh Hudec Barrett-Roddenberry

    Lwaxana Troi portrayed by Majel Barrett
Majel Leigh Hudec Barrett-Roddenberry
February 23, 1932 – December 18, 2008
Majel Barrett was the stage name of Mrs Gene Roddenberry. All of we trekkies know this but some of you outside that realm may not.

She performed all manner of characterizations on the various Star Trek franchises from the computer voice through Nurse Chappell, various intergalactic species, including the flamboyant Lwaxana Troi ...

and these portrayals obscured that warm human being who cared about her fans and went out of her way to make herself available to them at various conventions of fandom which transpired during her life time.

"The First Lady of Star Trek" as she was rightfully known succumbed to leukemia on December 18, 2008 and it was then that she joined her husband Gene Roddenberry in the great beyond and that franchise called Star Trek became less for that lack of her presence.

I think about her from time to time when I consider the mess that CBS has made of Star Trek Discovery with all it's namby pamby politically correct undertones and the utter lack of that flavor which was Star Trek proper.

Rest in peace, Majel. They really made a stupid mess of the Federation.