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RIP: Majel Barrett Roddenberry

Sad news...

Yahoo News reports that Majel Barrett Roddenberry, the widow of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, has died of leukemia at 76.

Majel palyed Nurse Christine Chapel on the original Star Trek series, Lwaxana Troi in Star Trek: The Next Generation and the voice of the USS Enterprise computer...a role she reprised for the upcoming Star Trek film directed by J.J. Abrams.

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Posted by John DeNardo at Thursday December 18, 2008 at 4:04 PM
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I'm sorry to hear this.

Posted by Lou Anders on Friday December 19, 2008 at 7:56 AM

She also did a good job playing the Centauri emperor's widow in an episode of B5.

Posted by bloginhood on Saturday December 20, 2008 at 4:05 AM

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