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Majel Barrett-Roddenberry (/ ˈ m eɪ dʒ əl / MAY-jəl; born Majel Leigh Hudec; [2] February 23, 1932 – December 18, 2008) was an American actress. She was best known for her roles as various characters in the Star Trek franchise: Nurse Christine Chapel (in the original Star Trek series, Star Trek: The Animated Series, and two films of the franchise), Number One (also in the original ...
Majel Barrett-Roddenberry and Rod Roddenberry in Las Vegas, August 2008. While at Los Angeles City College, Roddenberry began dating Eileen-Anita Rexroat. [5] They became engaged before Roddenberry left Los Angeles during his military service, [145] and they married on June 20, 1942, at the chapel at Kelly Field. [10]
Majel Barrett-Roddenberry and Rod Roddenberry in 2008 Following his work on Star Trek , Roddenberry sought to produce a television movie based on Tarzan . But the studio passed on the project, as they felt that he had written the character as too sexual for broadcast on TV in the late 1960s. [ 40 ]
In preparation for this eventuality, Roddenberry created Lincoln and put it in the name of Majel Barrett, who had been his mistress since she had played Number One in the show's original pilot episode, and later the recurring character of Nurse Christine Chapel, as well as providing the voice for the ship's computer.
Earth: Final Conflict is a science fiction television series based on ideas developed by Gene Roddenberry. The series was produced under the guidance of his widow, Majel Barrett-Roddenberry, who possessed notes kept by Roddenberry that would provide the conceptual basis for the series. It ran for five seasons between October 6, 1997, and May 20 ...
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In early 1996, Majel Barrett-Roddenberry uncovered scripts, and a five-year plan by Roddenberry dating from 1977, for a series called Battleground Earth. Roddenberry had planned to create a pilot for the series for 20th Century Fox Television, but this was postponed due to work on the resurgent Star Trek.
Majel Barrett (pictured in 2007) originally met Gene Roddenberry while he was developing pilots for Screen Gems. Prior to working on Star Trek, Gene Roddenberry had been developing a variety of television pilots for Screen Gems. One actress he auditioned was Majel Leigh Hudec, later to use the name Majel Barrett. [1]