From: helene@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Helene Blankespoor)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current
Subject: Re: Lwaxana - Who plays her?
Date: 22 Dec 92 09:51:01 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, Warwick University, England

In article <1992Dec20.234957.3819@netfs.dnd.ca> bvan@ncs.dnd.ca (Bryan Van Blari
>In article <1992Dec20.130609.1123@dcs.warwick.ac.uk> helene@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (
>>In article <92353.140742MCGLONE@auvm.american.edu> <MCGLONE@auvm.american.edu>
>>>I am sorry if there is a better place to find out this info, but I
>>>am fairly new to the net, and I didn't see anyhting in the FAQ lists
>>>in here or in rec.arts.startrek.info.
>>>
>>>Please settle a bet - who plays Lwaxana Troi?
>>>
>>>A friend claims this is Gene Roddenbury's wife who plays the computer
>>>voice now and used to be the nurse on the original series.  I claim
>>>it is someone different.  Dinner is riding on this one!
>>
>>I have also heard the same thing your friends is claiming, Roddenberry's wife
>>played nurse Chapel in TOS, and is the computer voice in TNG.
>>
>>Helene.
>
>   Majel Barrett Roddenberry played:
>
>   Number One in The Cage
>   Nurse Chapel in TOS
>   Doctor Chapel in STTMP
>   The voice of the computer in STTNG
>   Lwaxana Troi in STTNG
>
>   Those are the roles I am familiar with.  She may have had others I don't
>know about (since I wouldn't consider myself a ST trivia expert :-).

I have a suspision that she also played a background role in ST-IV like
Janice Rand did in ST-III and ST-IV.

HelenI have a suspision that she also played a background role in ST-IV like
Janice Rand did in ST-III and ST-IV.

Helene

There are 58 periodic postings to the net that are very helpful in answering
these types of questions.  I have a hard copy of each of these postings and
keep them updated (once or twice per month).  If you take the time to read
through each of these postings, you will know just about everything there
is to know about Startrek-TNG and DS9.  Here is an example the information
you can obtain in these lists:

Subject:      Star Trek Actor's Other Roles FAQ
Newsgroups:   rec.arts.startrek.misc, news.answers
From:         Ron C Carman (rccarm00@mik.uky.edu)
Frequency:    once a month
Answers to questions like "Wasn't that Brent Spiner I saw on Night Court?"
Posted in four parts: intro, regular and recurring Trek characters, guest
stars, and crossovers with Trek & L.A Law as well as Trek & MacGyver.

Answer to your question from Part I -- Regular or Recurring Characters:

Majel Barrett-Roddenberry
-------------------------------
ST Role(s): Lwaxana Troi
Television:
   Bonanza; Genesis II; Leave It to Beaver; The Man in the Santa Claus Suit;
   Planet Earth; The Questor Tapes; Spectre; Star Trek (66-69);
   Star Trek: The Next Generation - Haven; Manhunt; Menage a Troi;
Half a Life; Cost of Living; The Suicides Wife -aka A New Life-.
Pictures:
   As Young as We Are (58); Country Boy (66); The Domino Principle (77);
A Guide for the Married Man (67); Love in a Goldfish Bowl (61);
   The Quick and the Dead (63); Star Trek: The Motion Picture (79);
   Star Trek IV; The Voyage Home (86); Sylvia (65); Track o Thunder (67);
Westworld (73).


See how helpful these lists can be.......

Hope this helped
Alan
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