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Majel Barrett-Roddenberry (born Majel Lee Hudec on
February 23, 1932 in Columbus, Ohio) is an United
States|American Actor|actress and widow of
television director/producer/writer Gene
Roddenberry. 

Majel Barrett played several onscreen roles in the
various incarnations of Star Trek, the popular
science fiction TV series. She first appeared in
Star Trek's initial pilot episode
"The Cage" as the USS Enterprise NCC-1701|USS
Enterprises unnamed First Officer. According to
the book Inside Star Trek: 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 Star Trek
became a series, and two decades later she was
cast as the outrageously determined and
iconoclastic Betazoid Ambassador Lwaxana Troi in
Star Trek: The Next Generation, who also appeared
in some episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
She also provided the voice of the computer for
the original Star Trek series, Star Trek: The Next
Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, Enterprise
and the Star Trek movies. She also provided
numerous voices for the animated Star Trek series.

She also played the character Dr. Julianne Belman
in Earth: Final Conflict, which was also created
by Gene Roddenberry. She made a guest appearance
in a Babylon 5 episode "Point of No Return", as
Lady Morella, the psychic widow of the Centauri
emperor.  Her role foreshadowed major plot
elements in the Babylon 5.  Most likely to parody
her voice work as the computer for the Star Trek
series, Majel performed as a guest voice on Family
Guy as the voice of Stewie's ship. (This episode
also featured another Star Trek regular, Wallace
Shawn, as Stewie's unborn brother. Wallace played
the recurring role of Grand Nagus Zek in Deep
Space Nine.)

On April 29, 2005, she became the first and only
actor to appear in all six Star Trek series with
her guest appearance on Star Trek: Enterprise as
the computer voice of the USS Defiant NCC-1764 in
the episode "In a Mirror, Darkly Part II". She
also provided the computer voice for the USS
Enterprise-D in the series finale, "These Are the
Voyages ..."

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