Majel Barrett - IMDb IMDb Actress | Producer | Writer Majel Barrett was born on February 23, 1932 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA as Majel Leigh Hudec. She was an actress and producer, known for General Hospital (1963), Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) and Star Trek: Voyager (1995). She was married to Gene Roddenberry . She died on December 18, 2008 in Bel Air, Los Angeles, California, USA. See full bio » Born: a list of 26 people created 16 Feb 2012 a list of 32 people created 24 Feb 2015 a list of 23 people created 27 Mar 2015 a list of 32 people created 29 Apr 2015 a list of 22 people created 1 month ago Do you have a demo reel? Add it to your IMDbPage How much of Majel Barrett's work have you seen?

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It remains Paramount's cash cow, so there's no danger of it going away anytime soon. (September 2006) See more » Trivia: Her grandson, Zale Eugene Roddenberry, was born on August 6, 2013, 10:40 p.m. PT, and weighed 6 pounds, 11 ounces. See more » Trademark: The computer voice on the Star Trek television series and five of the Star Trek films Nickname: The First Lady of Star Trek Star Sign: Christine Chapel | Memory Alpha | Fandom powered by Wikia In 2266, Lieutenant Chapel was assigned to the USS Enterprise, serving as head nurse under Chief Medical Officer Dr. Leonard McCoy . Chapel assisting McCoy That year, she assisted McCoy with Joe Tormolen 's ultimately unsuccessful surgery to repair a damaged intestine , pronouncing him dead. ( TOS : " The Naked Time ") On stardate 2712.4, the Enterprise reached Exo III. Korby was found, exploring and exploiting a sophisticated android manufacturing technology, the legacy of a long-dead civilization.

Korby had replaced his own damaged body, transplanting his personality into an android replica, and had built himself a beautiful companion, Andrea . After exhibiting his madness, the android Korby was destroyed. Initially, Chapel doubted if she should stay aboard, but she elected to remain with the Enterprise throughout the five-year mission. ( TOS : " What Are Little Girls Made Of? ") In addition to a professional friendship with Dr. McCoy, Chapel was particularly close to Uhura . ( TOS : " What Are Little Girls Made Of? ", " The Changeling ", " Plato's Stepchildren ", " The Tholian Web ") By 2267 , there were occasional times when Chapel was called upon to help other doctors, sometimes with McCoy as the patient. She also knew when it was a good idea to be supportive of Dr. McCoy, even when others questioned whether he could be entirely reliable. On stardate 3478.2, such an event happened. When Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Scott, and Lieutenant Arlene Galway contracted a mysterious rapid-aging syndrome on the planet Gamma Hydra IV due to radiation left by a passing comet , Chapel was called upon to help the visiting Dr.

Janet Wallace in an effort to help comfort, if not cure, Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Scott, and Galway. (Unfortunately, before a cure was discovered, Galway died of old age.) Later, when Dr. McCoy, with Spock's help, figured out that it was increased adrenaline levels that had kept Ensign Pavel Chekov from developing the syndrome, Chapel instinctively knew that McCoy would be able to figure out an antidote for the rapid-aging syndrome in time to cure himself, Kirk, Spock, and Scott. She stood up for McCoy even while that wisdom was questioned by Dr. Wallace and visiting Commodore George Stocker , but let it be known that Dr. Wallace could be of great assistance to her and McCoy. Sure enough, Chapel's wisdom was borne out when McCoy did find the antidote in time to save himself, Kirk, Spock, and Scott. ( TOS : " The Deadly Years ") On stardate 3541.9, Chapel helped re-educate Lieutenant Uhura after the probe Nomad wiped the communications officer 's memories. ( TOS : " The Changeling ") In 2268 , though, there were times both when Dr.

McCoy greatly confused Chapel, as well as when she was put into danger. On stardate 4657.5, Chapel was in the Enterprise sickbay when McCoy and the Kelvan Tomar brought in Spock from the surface of a class M planet where a landing party had met the Kelvans. McCoy told Chapel that Spock was close to dying, though she could tell that wasn't true. This was a ruse by both McCoy and Spock on Kirk's orders, because Kirk wanted them on the ship to help stop the Kelvans from taking the ship to the Andromeda Galaxy , and Spock had put himself into a Vulcan trance to trick the Kelvans into thinking he was truly gravely ill. McCoy had to hint to Chapel to keep quiet. She did take the hint but remained confused. On stardate 4658.9, the Kelvans still hijacked the Enterprise to return to the Andromeda Galaxy and Dr.

McCoy complained to Kirk that he had watched four of his best doctors and nurses, including Chapel, be neutralized and reduced into dehydrated porous cuboctahedron solids , the size of a Human fist, composed of their base minerals, which represented the "distilled" essences of their beings. The Kelvans considered them non-essential personnel. Chapel and the other doctors and nurses were reconstituted, after Kirk, Spock, McCoy and Scott, the only four not neutralized, regained control of the Enterprise. ( TOS : " By Any Other Name ") On stardate 5029.5, when children from the Starnes Exploration Party were on board the Enterprise, she cared for and entertained them, showing them how they could use food cards to order any ice cream they wished from the Enterprise's replicators . She also was the first to notice how the children didn't cry for their recently deceased parents, and reported this observation to Dr. McCoy. ( TOS : " And the Children Shall Lead ") Chapel and McCoy administer the tri-ox compound to Kirk, in the transporter room after Kirk was rescued from the Defiant. On two separate occasions, Chapel displayed excellent skills as a lab assistant.

On stardate 5693.2, she assisted Dr. McCoy in developing a diluted theragen derivative to cure mental degradation effects caused by an interphase as the Enterprise was passing through Tholian space. She also assisted McCoy by administering the cure throughout the ship and helping him, in the transporter room , in administering the tri-ox compound to Kirk after he was beamed aboard from the USS Defiant . On stardate 5710.5, Chapel assisted Spock and McCoy in synthesizing an agent to counteract hyper-acceleration effects of Scalosian water. ( TOS : " The Tholian Web ", " Wink of an Eye ") On stardate 5143.3, she informed McCoy that Captain Kirk wanted to know whether his examination of " Carter Winston " was finished, adding that his fiance Anne Nored was waiting to see him. ( TAS : " The Survivor ") On stardate 5483.7 when under the influence of the women of planet two of the Taurean system , the male crew members of the Enterprise were incapacitated by the siren's song. Lieutenant Uhura took command of the vessel, and assigned Chapel as acting chief medical officer.

They led an all-female landing party down to the planet's surface to rescue Captain Kirk, Spock, and Dr. McCoy. ( TAS : " The Lorelei Signal ") On stardate 5499.9 when Kirk and Spock mutated into water-breathers, Chapel assisted Dr. McCoy in reversing their mutations. ( TAS : " The Ambergris Element ") At some point prior to stardate 5577.5, Chapel acquired a titanium bracelet made by the titanium smiths of Libra , which she occasionally wore while on duty. On stardate 5577.5, after the Enterprise was struck by a flash of light coming from a planet in the Cepheus star system and the flash temporarily paralyzed the crew, the whole crew started shrinking to fingernail length, at 1/16th of an inch in height. On stardate 5577.6, Spock observed that Chapel's titanium bracelet was staying the same mass , though their uniforms were shrinking at a proportional rate as their bodies.

Spock hypothesized (correctly) that their Starfleet uniforms were shrinking because they were made of an algae -based material known as xenylon , and that biological and naturally made material objects were also shrinking, but not the ship itself or other totally man-made material objects. A shrunken Chapel drowning A short time later, after Lieutenant Sulu broke his right leg in a fall from the helm station on the bridge and was taken to sickbay by Kirk and Lieutenant Arex , Chapel fretted that they couldn't use their bone-knitting laser , as it was now too large. Chapel then had an idea that McCoy thought was a great idea: they could use a microscope laser , which they used to heal the inner ear , to do the surgery to reset and heal Sulu's leg. Chapel was proved correct about that, but – due to her shrinking size, while trying to bring the microscope laser from the medical cabinet – she tripped on a knitting needle that had also stayed the same size, fell into the sickbay's aquarium , and nearly drowned. Fortunately, Kirk was able to save her.

Later, Chapel helped rescue mutant descendants of the Terra 10 colony from an unstable planet they were located on and relocate them to a more stable planet. Along with the rest of the crew, she was returned to her normal height by use of the transporter , which had saved the original molecular structure of each crew member in the pattern buffers . ( TAS : " The Terratin Incident ") Later career Edit Doctor Chapel in the 2270s Chapel earned her MD after completing a medical program. In the mid- 2270s , Chapel was assigned to the refitted Enterprise. Upon the return of Dr. McCoy during the V'ger crisis, he explained to Kirk that he was "going to need a top nurse, not a doctor who will argue every little diagnosis with me." Chapel later performed medical scans on the Ilia probe , and assisted in reacquainting the probe with Ilia 's former life. She also provided medical care to Spock after his traumatizing mind meld with V'ger. ( Star Trek: The Motion Picture ) According to the TMP novelization , Chapel was supposed to be the Enterprise's chief medical officer, but the arrival of McCoy changed that.

Chapel was very pleased that he was CMO and she wasn't. In 2286 , Commander Chapel was stationed at Starfleet Headquarters , where she coordinated relief efforts while Earth was suffering a severe ecological "attack" from an orbiting space probe . ( Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home ) Nursing prowess Edit Applied psychology in action While serving as a nurse, Chapel considered her responsibilities as a member of the medical profession to supersede her role as a subordinate crew member on the Enterprise, even to the point of disobeying an order from her superior, McCoy, whose welfare she was concerned about. ( TOS : " For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky ") Once she used nursing as an excuse for a romantic gesture towards Spock, bringing him plomeek soup , as he had not been eating for three days due to his recent nervous state . Though her actions initially met with the Vulcan's ire, he eventually warmed up to her and apologized, asking for more soup. ( TOS : " Amok Time ") She cleverly made use of psychology (and deception ) in a house call to Ensign Garrovick 's quarters , attempting to encourage him to eat some dinner.

Brandishing a record tape , she claimed it contained McCoy's prescription to "eat", and assured him the doctor would feed him intravenously if he did not comply. In reality, the tape contained " A Survey on Cygnian Respiratory Diseases ". ( TOS : " Obsession ") In a half-hearted attempt to mollify Pavel Chekov 's disdain at having to submit to yet another round of medical tests, she assured him, "This won't hurt. Much." ( TOS : " The Deadly Years ") Personal life Throughout her life, Chapel changed her hair color back and forth between blonde ( TOS : " The Man Trap ", etc.) and brunette. ( TOS : " Operation -- Annihilate! ", " Turnabout Intruder ") Relationships Edit Chapel kissing her fiancé Chapel became engaged to Korby after having been a student of his. Despite his disappearance and the failure of two previous expeditions to find him, she maintained her hope of doing so. When asked by Spock if she recognized his voice, she remembered it clearly enough to confirm that it was, in fact, Roger who was contacting the Enterprise.

Upon arriving on Exo III, she embraced him tenderly, only to become jealous of Andrea 's familiarity with him, as the android also called Korby by his first name. Upon being told that Andrea was an android, she naturally assumed he'd created a companion to replace her, or, as she put it, a "mechanical geisha ". Korby assured her that Andrea only obeyed orders and that he did not consider her a woman, merely a tool. Having learned of Korby's ability to manufacture android duplicates of living people, and seeing what became of the other members of the landing party , she was disillusioned, recalling that the Korby she knew wouldn't harm a living creature, believing their life sacred. She was still conflicted about his mental state, and hoped not to be given orders to betray him, preferring instead to have "Kirk" "push me off the same precipice where Mathews died. ". Though he tried to convince her he was still the same man he had always been inside, she refused to believe him. Upon the destruction of his android body and subsequent death, she returned to the Enterprise. ( TOS : " What Are Little Girls Made Of?

") Spock Edit Chapel confessing her love for Spock Even while she still sought to locate Korby, Chapel was deeply infatuated with the Enterprise's half- Vulcan science officer , Spock . Her attraction to him was an ongoing source of tension and bemusement throughout the five-year mission. Initially Chapel kept these feelings to herself. However, when the Psi 2000 intoxication afflicted the crew of the Enterprise, Chapel admitted her love for Spock, who was shocked: "I'm in love with you, Mr. Spock. You, the Human Mr. Spock... the Vulcan Mr. Spock.... I see things... how honest you are. I know how you feel. You hide it, but you do have feelings. Oh, how we must hurt you... torture you." Chapel insisted that Spock address her by her first name , as opposed to her title, which he resisted. Chapel was unaware that Spock's inability to react to her emotionally was further complicated by his betrothal to T'Pring .

Leading him to the ceremony in which his fiancée rejected him in favor of a different suitor, Spock underwent a period of intense emotional outbursts: a blood fever known as pon farr . Chapel characteristically doted after the Vulcan, preparing plomeek soup , a traditional Vulcan broth. The experience allowed them to discuss, even if briefly, Chapel's confession of love. Despite his acknowledged inability to return her affections, he did refer to her as Christine for the first time. ( TOS : " The Naked Time ", " Amok Time ") Chapel's longing for Spock was well-known among crew members, and noted openly by Captain Kirk and Dr. McCoy on a number of occasions. During Spock's recovery after a near-death experience on Neural , fellow medical officer Dr. M'Benga caught Chapel tenderly holding Spock's hand while watching his recovery on the medical panel atop his bed. M'Benga was sympathetic, despite Chapel's attempt to hide her feelings. Chapel later proactively aided Spock by secretly holding his consciousness to keep him from being destroyed by Henoch .

( TOS : " A Private Little War ", " Return to Tomorrow ") Her feelings for the Vulcan briefly interfered with her ability to assist McCoy in treating him for the puncture wound left behind by the Denevan neural parasite , prompting the doctor to order her either to put aside her feelings or call another nurse to help him. ( TOS : " Operation -- Annihilate! ") Three years after confessing her love to Spock, Chapel finally shared a kiss with him. Unfortunately, the situation was forced by the Platonians , against their will. Having sensed their close bond, they adorned her in make-up that gave her the appearance of a Vulcan. Chapel admitted that, despite her long-standing desire to be close to Spock, all she wanted to do, given the humiliation of the situation, was "crawl away and die." ( TOS : " Plato's Stepchildren ") In 2269 , while weakened by the Taurean headband , he referred to her as Christine when calling telepathically for help, after initially calling her "Miss Chapel".

( TAS : " The Lorelei Signal ") Chapel attempting to interest Spock Later that year, Harry Mudd provided Lieutenant Chapel with love potion crystals that she used on Spock, much to her embarrassment when they didn't take effect immediately. Though the crystals eventually worked, it wasn't long before Spock realized he was reacting to it and not experiencing genuine feelings of love. Later, when he offered to help her record Mudd's confession , she rebuffed him. ( TAS : " Mudd's Passion ") Upon Spock's resumption of his science officer duties on the Enterprise in the 2270s , she was pleased to see him again. ( Star Trek: The Motion Picture ) Friendships Though he occasionally referred to her by her first name only ( TOS : " The Naked Time ", " Elaan of Troyius ", " For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky "; TAS : " The Pirates of Orion "), she never called him "Leonard" to his face.

Chapel was comfortable with standing up to McCoy's orders if she believed them to be incorrect or odd; for instance, she made sure the doctor informed Captain Kirk of his (McCoy's) xenopolycythemia diagnosis, remaining in sickbay until the captain arrived, instead of leaving as per the doctor's instructions. ( TOS : " For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky ") She also questioned his request for two ccs of stokaline to treat a "dying" Spock in 2268 . ( TOS : " By Any Other Name ") Just prior to a dying McCoy beaming down to the surface of Yonada in 2268 , she admonished him to make the most of his remaining time, as "A lot can happen in a year ." ( TOS : " For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky ") In an effort to protect her from being penalized for following his orders instead of Arthur Coleman 's, McCoy told her to administer a sedative to "Janice Lester" , despite the action being against his better judgement.

( TOS : " Turnabout Intruder ") Upon hearing that she'd become a doctor during his brief hiatus from Starfleet, McCoy was reluctant to work with her, as he was of the opinion that she, like other doctors, would argue about every diagnosis he made, rather than take the orders he gave. ( Star Trek: The Motion Picture ) Given McCoy's feelings about being " drafted ", it's possible he was venting, not criticizing her personally. Nyota Uhura Uhura was on a first name basis with Chapel as early as 2267 . ( TOS : " The Changeling ", Star Trek: The Motion Picture ) Chapel, on the other hand, never referred to her by anything other than her last name ( TOS : " The Changeling ") or " lieutenant ". ( TAS : " The Lorelei Signal ") This may not signify anything as Uhura's first name had yet to be established in canon. As Chapel departed the bridge to see Roger Korby for the first time in years, Uhura wished her all the best with a sisterly kiss on the cheek. ( TOS : " What Are Little Girls Made Of?

") Chapel closely aided the communications officer in relearning the knowledge Nomad had stolen from her. Upon Uhura successfully reading (in English rather than Swahili ) the sentence "The dog has a ball ", Chapel hugged Uhura. ( TOS : " The Changeling ") Chief medical officers of the starships Enterprise Edit The character of Christine Chapel was created by Gene Roddenberry , intending the part to be played by Majel Barrett , with whom the married Roddenberry was having an affair. The creation of the recurring role was Roddenberry's solution to pressure that Barrett frequently put on him, as she was insistent that she play a regular character on Star Trek , even though executives at the television network NBC had fired her as Number One in the unaired original pilot " The Cage ". As an executive producer on the original series of Star Trek, Roddenberry planned to ensure that the resultant character of Chapel would definitely recur. ( Inside Star Trek: The Real Story , paperback ed., p. 224) In his reference book The World of Star Trek (3rd ed., p.

28), writer David Gerrold reckoned that Chapel "was obviously created specifically" to love Spock and went on to say, "The need to dramatize Spock's Vulcan aloofness requires that a woman fall in love with him and be continually rebuffed. Hence, Nurse Chapel." In scripts of " The Naked Time ", this character was known as Christine Baker and, later, Christine Ducheaux. She was even referred to with the latter name in the final draft shooting script (dated 28 June 1966 ), which went on to describe her as "dark-haired... more starkly attractive than beautiful... a woman capable of startling vitality... superb efficiency...." [1] In a revised draft of the script, this passage of text was minutely changed, with the only alteration being that the words "a woman capable of startling vitality" were moved to the start of the description. Gene Roddenberry renamed the character to Christine Chapel as a pun on " Sistine Chapel ".

( These Are the Voyages: TOS Season One , Inside Star Trek: The Real Story ) In actual dialogue in "The Naked Time", however, she is never referred to as anything other than "Nurse" or "Christine". Original appearances Edit Majel Barrett saw her opportunity to appear further in Star Trek by auditioning for the role of Chapel. "I wanted to be a part of it so badly, and I kept watching the scripts that came in, and when this episode ['The Naked Time'] came in, my mind started to go in different directions," Barrett recollected. "So I bleached my hair and waited for Gene [Roddenberry] to come in and take notice of it." ( Star Trek Monthly issue 27 , p. 44) Barrett, whose hair was now bleached blond, awaited Roddenberry in his office. "I sat there talking to his secretary, Penny, and Gene walked in. He looked at me and at Penny, said, 'Good morning,' and walked in the door... I kept on talking to Penny, and pretty soon Gene came out again, put some papers on Penny's desk, sort of smiled at me, turned around, and walked back in his office. Then the double take happened.

He opened the door and said, 'Majel?!' And I said, 'By God, if I could fool you, I can fool NBC.'" ( Star Trek - Where No One Has Gone Before , p. 21) Roddenberry agreed. Concluded Barrett, "He said, 'Yes, you can' [....] You just don't come back again when they fire you once, but I so much wanted to be a part of this show." ( Star Trek Monthly issue 27 , p. 44) Barrett thereafter played Christine Chapel. An issue that frustrated the show's producers, notably Robert Justman, as well as Majel Barrett herself, was that the character of Chapel was not fleshed out. ( Star Trek Magazine issue 144 , p. 14) For instance, little canonical information existed about Chapel's life outside of her career in Starfleet. Just after seeing the first footage of Barrett in the role, Justman realized that he didn't much like the performance. He addressed this problem with Gene Roddenberry in the latter's office, saying that Barrett "seemed awkward" in the part.

"Gene just smiled," Justman remembered, "as he always did when I told him something he didn't particularly want to hear [....] 'I thought she was fine,' he responded. 'Maybe a little nervous this time, but she'll work out great. It's a new character for her, and she'll get even better as she goes along. I like her a lot in this role.' Pushing him further wouldn't work. But I continued to needle him about it from time to time. His response was always the same: a smile, a short remonstration that she was 'fine' in the role, and then a change of subject. I stopped needling him about it after finally becoming aware of their relationship. Years later, I realized it wasn't the actress I disliked, it was the role. Nurse Chapel was a wimpy, badly written, and ill-conceived character." He particularly found fault with Chapel repeatedly pining for another character – whether it be Spock, as is the case in "The Naked Time", or Roger Korby in " What Are Little Girls Made Of? " ( Inside Star Trek: The Real Story , pp.

224-225) Expressing similar sentiments, Barrett confessed, "I didn't care that much for Nurse Chapel, to tell you the truth. She really wasn't that exciting a person or that exciting a character for an actress to play." ( Star Trek Monthly issue 38 , p. 39) Clarified Barrett, "I was happy with what I did, except there wasn't that much to do. It wasn't that satisfying, but in those days, I couldn't talk Gene into doing any more; again, I was a woman, and they had already fired me once, so I wasn't given too much to do." ( Star Trek Monthly issue 27 , p. 44) The script of "What Are Little Girls Made Of?" included the following description of Chapel; "She's a strong, calm woman, very much in control of herself which emphasizes only more for us the flickers of emotions that do occasionally show through." Also, as scripted for that episode, Chapel's abandonment of a career in bioresearch was stated to have been specifically for a position aboard the Enterprise, though this ultimately changed to being an assignment aboard a generic vessel.

[2] Regarding Majel Barrett's appearance as Chapel in "What Are Little Girls Made Of?", Robert Justman critiqued, "The close-up shots of her eyes misting over and lower lip quivering were beautifully photographed by cameraman Jerry Finnerman , who used special lighting and diffusion lenses. But this only served to emphasize the lack of character written into the character." ( Inside Star Trek: The Real Story , 1997, p. 225) According to Herb Solow , NBC did notice the same actress whom they had already fired portrayed Chapel. Solow related that – while he was screening a rough edit of "The Naked Time" for a group of NBC execs, well before the series was broadcast – NBC Vice President Herb Schlosser asked him who the performer was, a question Solow agreed to answer later. When they were alone after the screening, Schlosser repeated the inquiry and, upon Solow revealing the name of the actress, the NBC executive realized it was the same controversial performer. Schlosser was therefore initially puzzled about why the Star Trek producers hadn't cast a different actress for the part. "This was one of those times when the truth would be painful for all concerned," stated Solow.

"I answered quickly, 'Putting together a cast is like forming an orchestra. Individual actors are unimportant; it's an ensemble thing.'" Schlosser then correctly assumed that Barrett's casting as Chapel was due to her having an affair with someone who had a lot of influence in the Star Trek production team, a suspicion that Solow didn't confirm until after the series had been airing for a while. Also according to him, the news within NBC that the portrayal of Chapel involved Barrett returning to Star Trek led Jerry Stanley – another executive at the television network – to yodel, "Well, well – look who's back." ( Inside Star Trek: The Real Story , 1997, pp. 224 & 233) Barrett herself claimed, "For three years, NBC never knew it was the same person." ( Star Trek Monthly issue 27 , p.

44) Regardless of whether or nor Barrett actually believed her own claim, it were not only Schlosser and Stanley who found out early, but Desilu Studios Head Lucille Ball as well, and, according to Solow, when she did, she was not amused, not in the slightest; Lucille Ball had by then become well known for her character trait of valuing moral propriety after her failed marriage with Desi Arnaz (which had fallen apart partly due to Arnaz' philandering), and this she expected of her staff and employees as well. When she found out that the married Roddenberry had an illicit affair with Barrett (ironically hired, under her own name Majel Leigh Hudec, by Ball herself for Desilu as a contracted actress, and having personally instructed her in one of her own comedy seminars in 1957. [3] [X] wbm ), she could not abide with this kind of behavior anywhere near her property, and was dead-set on firing the pair of them on the spot.

Incidentally, Ball had already wanted to do something similar, albeit at the opposite end of the spectrum, with Mission: Impossible co-stars Barbara Bain and Martin Landau , when she found out that the two were actually a married couple, and wanted to fire them as she suspected a severe case of nepotism, which she could not abide with either. And indeed, this had been the additional reason for Ball for wanting to fire the future Roddenberry couple as well, as she concurrently became aware that he had surreptitiously sneaked an as a blonde disguised Barrett, her new alias (which Ball took as evidence of deliberate deception, not entirely unjustified), back into the Star Trek production as Christine Chapel against the express wishes of NBC. Through an intermediary, her personal publicist Howard McClay, Solow had in both cases – as Mission was also produced under his auspices – the toughest of times to convince the headstrong Ball otherwise. ( Inside Star Trek: The Real Story , 1997, p. 223; These Are the Voyages: TOS Season One , 1st ed, pp. 25-27) Christine Chapel turned out to be highly unpopular among some fans of Star Trek's original series.

"It was because of her love for Spock and his occasional moments of gentleness toward her that Christine Chapel was largely disliked among the Trekkies who adored Spock," explained David Gerrold. "Female fans saw her as a threat to their own fantasies and male fans saw her as a threat to Spock's Vulcan stoicism." However, the fans who met Majel Barrett were often surprised by how beautiful she was. Gerrold concluded, "They just couldn't see it in her as Chapel because of the relationship between her and Spock." ( The World of Star Trek , 3rd ed., p. 28) Later appearances Edit In Star Trek: The Animated Series , the voice for the character of Chapel was provided by Majel Barrett, reprising the role from TOS. Christine Chapel was intended to be included in the ultimately aborted television series Star Trek: Phase II , in which her promotion to doctor was planned to be established. The Writers'/Directors' Guide for that series said of the character, "Introduced in Star Trek I as Nurse Chapel, her medical degrees have been accepted by Starfleet, and she has returned to the U.S.S. Enterprise to serve as McCoy's associate.

She is second in command of the ship's medical section, and McCoy seems to enjoy passing on to her every duty he finds too boring, irritating or annoying to himself. Yet outside of Captain Kirk, she is probably McCoy's closest confidante. An expert in psychotherapy, she has unusual ability to teach patients how to use the healing powers of their own bodies." ( The Making of Star Trek: The Motion Picture , p. 119) In character notes that Gene Roddenberry wrote for Star Trek: The Motion Picture , Chapel was mentioned in the note about Dr. McCoy and was described as being influenced by the fact that McCoy was dealing with a great deal of pressure at the time of the film, even to the point of almost causing him to suffer a nervous breakdown . The section regarding Chapel stated, "[She] must take on an overly large portion of the load of treating the sick, and is likewise subject to breakage." (The Making of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, p. 102) Majel Barrett was delighted that, in The Motion Picture, Chapel was promoted to doctor status and that she herself was not required to ruin her hair by dying it blond to match her TOS appearances as Chapel.

In the film, Barrett's portrayal of Chapel was partly based on the description of the character from the Writers'/Directors' Guide for Phase II. (The Making of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, p. 119) Her appearance in The Motion Picture was in keeping with the fact that long hairstyles were disallowed in that film. (The Making of Star Trek, p. 142) However, Majel Barrett had qualms about her appearance as Chapel in The Motion Picture, confessing, "I really didn't consider my work in the first one to be that great an experience." ( Starlog #116) In the script for Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home , Chapel is described as a "Starfleet Medical Officer whose history in Star Trek is known to all." The same script features her in a short, ultimately excised scene. Set in the Federation Council Chamber, the scene details Commander Chapel meeting with Sarek upon his arrival there. She thanks him for coming but admits to being unsure whether he is too late to testify at the then-ongoing trial of Admiral Kirk and the senior crew of the Enterprise.

Noted Majel Barrett, "I just had a couple of lines with Sarek, so it was really nothing of consequence." However, Barrett also considered that this scene would have been her "only real scene" in the movie. Chapel's role in Star Trek IV is so minimal that Barrett hypothesized, "If no one had called me Commander Chapel, the audience wouldn't really know that I was there." Longing to have more involvement in Star Trek, she proclaimed, "Somewhere Chapel got lost." On the other hand, Barrett also related about her brief inclusion in Star Trek IV, "I am grateful for having been in it after not being in Star Trek II or III [....] I loved it, I had such a great time." ( Starlog #116) Simon and Schuster 's officially licensed Star Trek: Starship Creator interactive software , written by production staffer Michael Okuda , listed some supplemental biographical details on Chapel. It mentioned she was the child of Lauren Chapel and Patterson Chapel of New Orleans , Louisiana , Earth , and had an interest in ballet .

Other information included a birth date in 2237 , Starfleet Medical Academy Nursing Degree in 2266 , and doctorate by the 2270s . She graduated in the 98th percentile of her class, with degrees in bioresearch, medical archeology , and endocrinology . It assigned her original rank as a "brevet" (or provisional ) ensign , and stated that she rose to become the director of Starfleet Emergency Operations by the time of her Star Trek IV appearance. Apocrypha Chapel appeared in Vonda N. McIntyre 's novelization of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan . She was still serving on the Enterprise in 2285 , and was present during Saavik 's Kobayashi Maru scenario . In Peter David 's New Frontier novel Renaissance , Scotty mistaken one of the characters, Morgan Primus , the mother of Robin Lefler , as "Christine". It was also suggested in that series that Primus was actually Christopher Pike 's " Number One ". This mistaken identification was a joke referring to the fact that both roles were played by the same actress. Dr.

Chapel was also seen as the chief medical officer aboard the USS Excelsior in the novel The Sundered . External links Majel B. Roddenberry, wife of 'Star Trek' creator, dies - LA Times Majel B. Roddenberry, wife of 'Star Trek' creator, dies Majel Barrett Roddenberry Roddenberry Archives Majel Barrett Roddenberry poses with her husband, Gene Roddenberry. The actress, who played Nurse Chapel on "Star Trek: The Original Series," died Thursday in Bel-Air. Majel Barrett Roddenberry poses with her husband, Gene Roddenberry. The actress, who played Nurse Chapel on "Star Trek: The Original Series," died Thursday in Bel-Air. (Roddenberry Archives) Dennis McLellan Majel Barrett Roddenberry, the widow of "Star Trek" creator Gene Roddenberry and an actress whose longtime association with the "Star Trek" franchise included playing Nurse Christine Chapel in the original series, died early Thursday morning. She was 76. Roddenberry died at her home in Bel-Air after a battle with leukemia, said family spokesman Sean Rossall. "She was a valiant lady," Leonard Nimoy , who played Mr.

Spock on "Star Trek," told The Times. "She worked hard, she was straightforward, she was dedicated to 'Star Trek' and Gene, and a lot of people thought very highly of her." Once dubbed "The First Lady of 'Trek' " by the Chicago Tribune , Majel (sounds like Mabel) Barrett Roddenberry was associated with "Star Trek" from the beginning. In the first TV pilot, she played a leading role as Number One, the first officer who was second in command. But at the request of various executives, changes were made, and she did not reprise her role in the second TV pilot. Instead, she played the minor role of Nurse Chapel when the series began airing on NBC in September 1966. Roddenberry had another distinction: Beginning with the original series, she supplied the coolly detached voice of the USS Enterprise's computer -- something she did on the various "Star Trek" series. She also was the voice of the Starship Enterprise for six of the 10 "Star Trek" movies that have been released, as well as the 11th, which is due out next year. Roddenberry also played Dr.

Christina Chapel in two of the "Star Trek" movies, "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" and "Star Trek: The Voyage Home." And she played the recurring role of the flamboyant Lwaxana Troi on "Star Trek: The Next Generation" and "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine." Roddenberry, whose pre-"Star Trek" acting career included guest appearances on series such as "The Untouchables" and "The Lucy Show," had no idea she was establishing a career path in science fiction when she took her first "Star Trek" role. "Not at all," she said in a 2002 interview with the Tulsa World. "I certainly didn't have any idea that I'd be doing it this long, for so many different shows and films -- especially as a product of a series that was a flop. The original was only on for three years.

It wasn't considered a success by anyone's standards." The show took off as a pop-culture phenomenon after it went into syndication, however, and Roddenberry, who was married to Gene Roddenberry from 1969 until his death in 1991, attended her first "Star Trek" convention in 1972. "You know, when the conventions started out, I'd attend four or five a month," she said in the 2002 interview. "But after a while, it got where there was no time for anything else. You'd just travel from city to city, making the same speech, answering the same questions." Rossall said both Gene and Majel Roddenberry maintained warm relationships with "Star Trek" fans. And as late as August, he said, Majel Roddenberry attended a "Star Trek" convention in Las Vegas. As she told the Buffalo City News in 1998, "It's been a hell of a ride." Born Majel Hudec in Columbus, Ohio, on Feb. 23, 1932, she attended the University of Miami and acted in regional theater before heading to Hollywood in the late '50s.

Several years after her husband's death, Roddenberry discovered a pilot script and notes he had written for a series in the '70s. And in 1997, with Majel Barrett Roddenberry as an executive producer and playing a recurring role, "Gene Roddenberry's Earth: Final Conflict" began airing in syndication. She later was an executive producer of the syndicated "Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda ." She is survived by her son, Eugene "Rod" Roddenberry Jr. Roddenberry had a love of animals and was dedicated to animal rescue. Instead of flowers, the family suggests donations in her name to Precious Paws, , or CARE (Cat & Canine Assistance, Referral and Education), . Funeral and memorial service details are pending.

Star Trek Barrett, Majel Share Majel Barrett Roddenberry, the face behind roles from " Number One " to "Nurse Christine Chapel " to " Lwaxana Troi " and the voice of Starfleet computers past and present, was also creator Gene Roddenberry's wife from 1969—and thus often dubbed "The First Lady of Star Trek." Born Majel Lee Hudec in 1932 in Cleveland, Ohio, she first enrolled in an acting workshop at age 10 and continued the interest at Shaker Heights High School, but went to college to become a legal clerk. Majel attended law school for a year, but after receiving an 'F' in contract law, she moved to New York and landed parts in "Models By Season," which was staged in Boston. Then she did a nine-month run in The Solid Gold Cadillac, which toured New Orleans, Texas, Oklahoma and San Francisco, Calif. Deciding the competition was too stiff in New York, Majel moved to California and the Pasadena Playhouse, and was cast in All for Mary.

By the late '50s, she worked in various Paramount films, including Black Orchid, As Young as We Are, and The Buccaneer. Then she decided that the real opportunity was happening in television, and that's where she wanted to be. After appearing in several series like Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse, Window on Main Street, Bonanza, and Pete and Gladys, she met Lucille Ball at an acting class and was signed to a contract with Desilu. Soon after she appeared in an episode of the Lucy Show called "Lucy is a Kangaroo for a Day." In 1964, when she was no longer under exclusive contract, Majel accepted a guest role on the new MGM series The Lieutenant, produced by Gene Roddenberry. Majel became good friends with Gene and ultimately, years later, his wife. Later in 1964, Roddenberry cast her in a co-starring role in "The Cage," the pilot for his science fiction series Star Trek. She played 'Number One,' second in command on the U.S.S. Enterprise, but the character's strength and authority in the Star Trek universe as a woman was unsettling to NBC.

The network ordered a second pilot made, but it was made without Majel's female officer. Still, once Roddenberry sold his second Star Trek pilot to the network, he eventually hired her in the later-evolving role of Nurse Christine Chapel . Instead of the dark-haired "M. Leigh Hudec" that they had disliked in the other pilot, she now used the name "Majel Barrett" and wore a blond wig as Chapel. Meanwhile,more guest spots on television followed in series like Dr. Kildare, 77 Sunset Strip, The 11th Hour, Leave it to Beaver, Please Don't Eat the Daisies, and The Second Hundred Years. In 1967 Barrett made the big-screen in Guide for the Married Man with Walter Matthau and directed by Gene Kelly, and again in the sci-fi thriller Westworld. She was also cast in Planet Earth, Genesis II, The Quetor Tapes and Spectre, Roddenberry's unsold pilots produced in the 1970s. But it was on Aug. 6, 1969, after Star Trek had finished, when she and Roddenberry were married in Japan in a traditional Buddhist-Shinto ceremony.

On Feb. 5, 1974, Majel gave birth to a healthy boy, Eugene Wesley Roddenberry, Jr., known affectionately as "Rod." When The Next Generation returned Star Trek to weekly TV in 1987, she created the role of Deanna Troi's mother, Lwaxana Tro i : loud and bossy and as far away from Christine Chapel as anything could be—and a role also seen on the spinoff, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Majel can also be heard as the voice of Starfleet ship computers on Voyager and The Next Generation. After Roddenberry died In 1991, she conitnued control of his legacy and running Lincoln Enterprises, the mail order business they'd started in the 1970s to deal with the mountain of requests for Star Trek-related materials. She also sold two of his concepts as 1990s syndicated series: Earth: Final Confllict, in which she played Dr. Julianne Belman, and Andromeda. She enjoyed golf, gold working, gourmet cooking, gem cutting and most of all meeting fans at conventions—right up until the summer before her death on Dec.

18, 2008, from complications of leukemia. Filmography Majel Barrett-Roddenberry | Memory Alpha | Fandom powered by Wikia Number One , Christine Chapel , M'Ress , Computer Voice , Lwaxana Troi Majel and Gene in 1991 Majel Barrett-Roddenberry ( 23 February 1932 – 18 December 2008 ; age 76) was a recurring actress in the Star Trek franchise and was the wife of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry from 1969 until his death in 1991 . This association with Roddenberry and his most famous creation has earned Barrett the title "The First Lady of Star Trek". Barrett was the only performer to have had a role on all of the Star Trek series – usually not as a character but as the voice of the various computers used throughout the series. She also supplied the voice of the Enterprise computer in five of the Star Trek films - spanning all three film series (Original Series, The Next Generation Series, and the Alternate Reality Series).

Her most frequent portrayal in Star Trek, besides the computer, was that of Nurse (later Doctor ) Christine Chapel on Star Trek: The Original Series , Star Trek: The Animated Series , and in two of the films. She also voiced M'Ress and several other characters on The Animated Series and later played Betazoid Ambassador Lwaxana Troi on Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine . Her first filmed appearance was in Star Trek: The Original Series pilot episode " The Cage " as Number One . Contents Edit Barrett was born Majel Leigh Hudec in Cleveland, Ohio. She enrolled in an acting workshop when she was ten years old but later attended the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida with the intention of becoming a legal clerk. She attended law school for a year, but, after failing a class in contract law, opted to move to New York to try her luck in acting. She landed parts in several stage plays, including Models by Season and The Solid Gold Cadillac, the latter of which toured across the country for nine months. During this time, her father, a police officer in Cleveland, was killed while out on patrol.

[1] Believing the competition in New York to be too stiff, Barrett moved to California in the 1950s where she won parts in stage plays as well as films. She had a bit part in the 1957 film Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?, after which she made an uncredited appearance in the 1958 Paramount Pictures release The Black Orchid. She then landed a supporting role in the 1958 Paramount film As Young As We Were, along with TOS guest actor Barry Atwater . She also had a brief role in Paramount's The Buccaneer that same year. One of Barrett's earliest television appearances came in 1959 in an episode of the syndicated adventure/drama series Whirlybirds, which starred Kenneth Tobey . She then made an uncredited appearance as a waitress in a 1960 episode of Desilu 's The Untouchables, which aired on NBC . That same year, she guest-starred on the ABC family comedy series Leave It to Beaver, which starred Tony Dow . In 1961, Barrett was seen in a supporting role in the musical comedy Love in a Goldfish Bowl, another film from Paramount Pictures.

This was followed by a supporting role in the 1963 war drama The Quick and the Dead. She also continued making appearances on television shows, including Cain's Hundred (with Anthony Caruso ) and a 1962 episode of Bonanza with her future TOS co-star James Doohan , entitled "Gift of Water." In 1962, Barrett met actress Lucille Ball at an acting class and was signed to a contract with Desilu . Soon thereafter, she appeared with Lucy in an episode of Desilu's The Lucy Show. History with Gene Roddenberry and Star Trek Edit Barrett first met Gene Roddenberry in 1961. ( Star Trek Memories , p. 14) In late 1963, she was cast in an episode of his Marine Corps drama, The Lieutenant, which starred Gary Lockwood . Incidentally, the episode in which Barrett appeared – titled "In the Highest Tradition" – also featured future TOS regular Leonard Nimoy . In addition, the episode was directed by Marc Daniels , who later directed 15 episodes of TOS. Barrett's relationship with Roddenberry, who was married and had two children, developed into her becoming his mistress.

She later remembered, "We weren't lovers at the very beginning, that sort of developed after we'd become friends." Barrett had doubts that Roddenberry was ready to end his marriage. "Up until Gene actually left his wife, I really couldn't anticipate spending my life with him," she explained. "I felt I would spend the rest of my life loving him, but not necessarily with him." ( Star Trek Memories , p. 14) Barrett along with Leonard Nimoy had her first day for "The Cage" at the Desilu Culver Stage 15 on 17 November 1964 , performing color makeup tests inside the Menagerie set. NBC ultimately rejected "The Cage," but they gave Roddenberry the chance to produce a second pilot. However, the network asked that he drop both the devilish-looking Spock (played by Leonard Nimoy) and Barrett's Number One character, asserting that audiences would never accept a woman being second-in-command of a ship. Roddenberry insisted on keeping Spock but agreed to drop Number One.

Barrett jokingly stated that Roddenberry "kept the Vulcan and married the woman, 'cause he didn't think Leonard [Nimoy] would have it the other way around." [2] In their book Inside Star Trek: The Real Story , Herb Solow and Robert Justman claimed that the account of NBC rejecting the female first officer was a myth created by Roddenberry. In their version, NBC was proud of gender and race diversity in its shows, and even insisted on having a strong female leading character, but they felt that Barrett was not a leading-type actress with strong screen presence, suitable for playing such a role. Apparently not wanting to hurt his mistress' pride, Roddenberry purportedly came up with this story in the 1970s-1980s Star Trek convention circuit, which he toured extensively with his by-then wife. Although her character was dropped from the second pilot, " Where No Man Has Gone Before ", after Star Trek was picked up as a series, Barrett, now disguised as a blonde, was given the role of Nurse Christine Chapel in the episode " The Naked Time " by Roddenberry, albeit surreptitiously according to Justman and Solow.

Because the network did not like her role in "The Cage", Barrett donned a blond wig for her role and went by the name "Majel Barrett" rather than "M. Leigh Hudec," as she had done for "The Menagerie." In effect, the surreptitious act of sneaking Barrett back into the Star Trek production against the express wishes of NBC, turned out to be one of the reasons for Lucille Ball after she was informed of this, to ordain the firing of the pair of them on the spot, as a moral propriety valuing Ball could not abide with nepotism. Concurrently, she had become aware that a married Roddenberry conducted an illicit affair with Barrett, which was an even stronger reason for her wanting them to be gone from her studio; Ball's own marriage with Desi Arnaz had fallen apart in no small part due this his philandering. It was Herb Solow who, through an intermediary, managed to convince Ball otherwise, though he had the toughest of times doing so. ( Inside Star Trek: The Real Story , 1997, p. 223; These Are the Voyages: TOS Season One , 1st ed, pp.

25-27) In total, Barrett was featured as Nurse Chapel in twenty-five of the seventy-nine episodes of Star Trek: The Original Series , from the first season 's " The Naked Time " to the last episode of the series, " Turnabout Intruder ". She also supplied the voice of the USS Enterprise 's computer in several episodes of the series. Marriage and continued collaboration Edit Majel and Gene Barrett and Gene Roddenberry married on 6 August 1969 , two months after the final episode of Star Trek was aired. Since they were both in Japan at the time, and because Roddenberry did not adhere to any particular religion, they decided to have a Shinto-Buddhist wedding. Roddenberry's divorce from Eileen Anita Rexroat had not yet been finalized, requiring the pair to make the marriage legal with a civil ceremony held on 29 December 1969 . A brief filed with the California Court of Appeal on 30 September 1994, in docket number B074848, by attorneys for Barrett confirms that Roddenberry's divorce was not final until December 24, 1969.

[3] Their son, Eugene "Rod" Roddenberry, Jr. , was born on 5 February 1974 . Barrett and Roddenberry continued working together throughout the 1970s. They both ran the catalog company Lincoln Enterprises , which they founded in 1967 . In addition, Barrett acted in many of the unsold TV pilots Roddenberry wrote and produced, the first of which was Genesis II in 1973. In addition to Barrett, this project also featured performances by Star Trek alumni Ted Cassidy , Mariette Hartley , Harvey Jason , and Percy Rodriguez . The following year, Barrett acted in Roddenberry's The Questor Tapes, which was directed by Richard Colla and which starred Robert Foxworth . That same year, Barrett performed in Roddenberry's Planet Earth, along with Diana Muldaur and the aforementioned Ted Cassidy. This project was directed by the aforementioned Marc Daniels. In 1977, Barrett appeared in one more Roddenberry pilot, entitled Spectre.

Post-TOS Trek work Edit Barrett voiced Nurse Chapel, as well as M'Ress and numerous other characters, on Star Trek: The Animated Series from 1973 through 1975 . Barrett reprised her role of Christine Chapel, now a doctor, in 1979 's Star Trek: The Motion Picture . She again played Doctor Chapel in 1986 . Barrett then recurred Lwaxana Troi on Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine , appearing in six episodes of the former and three episodes of the latter. Barrett also co-wrote the story for the DS9 episode " The Muse ", along with René Echevarria . For the episode "Half a Life", Barrett filmed her scenes between Wednesday 27 February 1991 and Friday 8 March 1991 on Paramount Stage 8 and 9 .

For the episode "Cost of Living", she filmed her scenes between Tuesday 4 February 1992 and Monday 10 February 1992 and Wednesday 12 February 1992 and Thursday 13 February 1992 on Paramount Stage 8, 9, and 16 . Her makeup in this episode was applied by Michael Westmore . Barrett cited the TNG episode "Half a Life" as one of her favorite Star Trek episodes. ( TNG Season 7 DVD special feature "Special Profiles Year Seven" ("From Comedy To Drama")) In addition, Barrett voiced Starfleet computers in many episodes of TNG, DS9, and Star Trek: Voyager . As a result of providing the USS Defiant 's computer voice in the Star Trek: Enterprise episode " In a Mirror, Darkly, Part II ", she became the only actress to work on all five Star Trek television series. Along with Joseph Ruskin , Clint Howard , Jack Donner and Vince Deadrick , she was one of only five actors to appear in both The Original Series and Enterprise.

She has also been heard as the Enterprise computer voice in five of the feature films: Star Trek Generations , Star Trek: First Contact , Star Trek: Insurrection , Star Trek Nemesis and Star Trek . She also voiced the Federation computer in the video games Star Trek: Judgment Rites , A Final Unity , Star Trek: Borg and Generations , in Star Trek: The Next Generation Interactive Technical Manual , in the television documentary To Boldly Go , and in the DVD-Rom editions of the Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion , the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion , and the Star Trek Encyclopedia . She even voiced the ship's computer for the "World Enough and Time" episode of the fan-made internet series Star Trek: New Voyages, produced by James Cawley . Her son, Rod Roddenberry, was a consulting producer on this series at the time. She also voiced the ship's computer of the USS F. Scott Fitzgerald NCC-85107-A in fan-made series Star Trek I: Specter ( credits ) produced by Brandon Bridge. On 10 December 2008 , it was announced that Barrett had again recorded a voice-over as the Enterprise computer for 2009 's Star Trek .

She had completed her voice work on the film sometime the previous week. The announcement that she was reprising her role as the computer voice came just eight days before her death. [4] [5] [6] [7] Continuing the legacy Edit Barrett's association with the Star Trek franchise and her love affair with creator Gene Roddenberry has earned her the title "The First Lady of Star Trek." After Gene Roddenberry's death on 24 October 1991 , Barrett became an integral part of Star Trek's continued legacy and that of Roddenberry himself. She continued to operate Lincoln Enterprises with their son, Rod, and attended at least one major Star Trek convention every year, in addition to making continued appearances and contributions to the Star Trek spin-offs. Following Roddenberry's death, Barrett took material from his archives and used his ideas to develop two Canadian-produced science fiction television series. The first was Earth: Final Conflict , which ran from 1997 through 2002. The second was Andromeda , which aired from 2000 through 2005.

Barrett served as executive producer on both of these shows until 2002 and had a recurring role as Julianne Belman on Earth: Final Conflict, but Gene Roddenberry was credited as the creator of both shows. Other acting credits Edit In addition to her commitment to Gene Roddenberry and to Star Trek, Barrett continued acting in unrelated projects. She made an uncredited appearance in the 1965 Paramount film Sylvia, which was followed by a major role in a 1966 musical film called Country Boy. In 1967, she had supporting roles in two films: Gene Kelly 's comedy A Guide for the Married Man and the action drama Track of Thunder. Barrett also continued appearing on television. She made a return visit to Bonanza in 1966, after which she appeared in such shows as The Second Hundred Years (which starred Monte Markham ) and Here Come the Brides. The latter series had three TOS guest stars as regulars: Robert Brown , Mark Lenard , and David Soul . Barrett portrayed Miss Carrie in Michael Crichton 's 1973 science fiction classic Westworld. Alan Oppenheimer also had a role in this film.

Barrett then appeared in Stanley Kramer 's 1977 film The Domino Principle, playing the wife of a character played by Ted Gehring . " Errand of Mercy " director John Newland directed Barrett in the 1979 made-for-TV movie The Suicide's Wife, which also starred Don Marshall . That same year, veteran Trek director Corey Allen directed Barrett in another TV movie, The Man in the Santa Claus Suit. In 1983, Barrett was briefly on the soap opera General Hospital. Barrett appeared in two 1995 independent films: Mommy and Teresa's Tattoo. The latter film also featured one-time TNG guest actor Diedrich Bader . In 1996, Barrett guest-starred as the widow of the Centauri emperor in the episode of the cult science fiction series Babylon 5 entitled " Point of No Return ". She took the role as a goodwill gesture in hopes of calming the rivalry between the Trek franchise and the burgeoning new competitor. [8] In addition to series regular Andreas Katsulas , the episode also featured Vaughn Armstrong and Marshall R. Teague .

From 1996 through 1998, Barrett voiced Anna Watson, the aunt of Mary Jane Watson, in the animated Spider-Man series based on the Marvel Comics characters. In 1998, Barrett, along with her Star Trek co-stars Walter Koenig , George Takei , and Grace Lee Whitney and Trek alumni Bill Mumy and Wil Wheaton , made gag appearances in the episode of Diagnosis Murder called "Alienated." As an in-joke, Barrett was brought in by Trekkie writer and producer Seth MacFarlane to participate on his animated series, Family Guy. In the episode called "Emission Impossible," Barrett supplies the voice of Stewie's "sperm" ship, a nod to her four-decade role as a computer voice on Star Trek. The episode also featured the voice of DS9 alumnus Wallace Shawn . Death Barrett died at her home in Bel Air, California, at 12:27AM on 18 December 2008 following a short battle with leukemia. She was surrounded by family, friends and her son, Eugene "Rod" Roddenberry, Jr. She was 76 years old.

[9] Trust Edit The trust documents obtained after Barrett's death disclosed that her pet dogs were left a $4 million trust and the rights to live in one of her mansions until they die. Barrett's employee, Reinelda Estupinian, was left $1 million and the right to live and care for the pets in the same house. Son Eugene was left the family's Bel Air mansion, $60 million and $10 million bonuses when he turns 35, 40 and 45. [10] Star Trek appearances 'Star Trek: The Original Series': Where Is the Cast 46 Years After TV Premiere? - ABC News ABC News 'Star Trek: The Original Series': Where Is the Cast 46 Years After TV Premiere? By CALVIN LAWRENCE Jr. Sept. 7, 2012 Just don't call them Trekkies. Many fans of the original " Star Trek " series prefer to be called Trekkers, and they know everything about its intricacies. From the shape-shifting creature featured in the first TV episode on Sept. 8, 1966, to the last episode on June 3, 1969, when Capt.

James Tiberius Kirk loses his consciousness to a woman determined to kill him, "Star Trek" has taken its viewers "where no man has gone before" -- over and over and over again. Forty-six years after Gene Roddenberry created the original series, here's an update on the original cast members from a franchise now worth billions. 'Star Trek' William Shatner (Capt. Kirk) Please, no priceline.com jokes. William Shatner, 81, can shill all he wants for the online travel site, but there's no escaping the role that stuck to him like those pesky little Tribbles that redeemed themselves in the end. He also tours the country with "Shatner's World: We Just Live in It," a one-man show in which he takes audiences through his acting career. 'Star Trek' Leonard Nimoy (Mr. Spock) Any fan of the hit TV show "Fringe" will tell you that Leonard Nimoy, 81, is doing just fine, thank you. His recurring role as parallel-universe-hopping Dr. William Bell even evokes Mr. Spock at his dispassionate best.

Nimoy also keeps busy doing voice work, this year as Action Figure Spock in the "The Big Bang Theory," Master Xehanort in "Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance" and Galactus in "The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes." 'Star Trek' DeForest Kelley (Dr. McCoy) Kelley died of cancer in 1999 at age 79 but there's a website " dedicated to the incredible DeForest Kelley and his wonderful life's work ." 'Star Trek' George Takei (Mr. Sulu) George Takei, 75, does some marketing work of his own, sporting the classic Starfleet uniform for the Social Security Administration. "Boldly Go to " the promotion reads, depicting him and actress Patty Duke. And since coming out publicly in 2005, Takei has become a prominent spokesman for gay rights. He also has a role in "Allegiance: A New American Musical," premiering this month in San Diego and depicting the weeks and years after the attack on Pearl Harbor. 'Star Trek' James Doohan (Mr. Scott) Doohan accomplished in death what he couldn't in life: a trip to the real final frontier.

A private company flew some of his ashes, as requested in his will, into space earlier this year. He died in 2005 at age 85 after suffering from Alzheimer's disease. 'Star Trek' Nichelle Nichols (Lt. Uhura) Nichols, 79, has turned her attention to encouraging woman and people of other underrepresented groups to consider careers in space and aviation, particularly as astronauts. She appeared earlier this year at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards, Calif., and the Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility in Palmdale. 'Star Trek' Walter Koenig (Ensign Chekov) Everything you want to know about Koenig, 75, can be found at his official website , including his busy appearance schedule. Next up is the Walter Koenig Star Celebration this weekend in Hollywood, Calif. He was the last of the seven main cast members to be awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. 'Star Trek' Majel Barrett-Roddenberry (Nurse Chapel) Married to "Star Trek" creator Gene Roddenberry for 22 years, Barrett-Roddenberry died of leukemia in 2008 at age 76.

She was the only one to act in all six "Star Trek" TV series. Her remains are reportedly scheduled to be launched into deep space in 2014, along with a portion of her husband's ashes that weren't sent into Earth orbit in 1997.

Question: Name the actress, who played the part of Nurse Chappel in the original TV series, "Star Trek", and married the creator Gene Roddenberry in 1969.
Answer: MAJEL BARRETT