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Star Trek Continues is an American fan-createdweb series set in the Star Trek universe. Produced by the non-profit charity Trek Continues, Inc. and Dracogen, and initially co-produced by Far from Home LLC and Farragut Films, the series consists of eleven episodes released between 2013 and 2017. The series is an unofficial direct continuation of Star Trek: The Original Series, and emulates its visual and storytelling features to achieve the same look and feel. Those who made the show have said in interviews that the intent was to finish the original five year mission of the show, and this is borne out in the plot lines of the final two episodes.^[1]

As with all such Star Trek fan productions, use of copyrighted and trademarked properties from the original series was allowed so long as the production was non-commercial.^[2] A portion of the funds necessary to produce the episodes was raised through successful Kickstarter and Indiegogo campaigns, to which thousands of backers contributed.

Star Trek Continues won a Webby Award for 'People's Choice – Long Form Drama' in 2016, a Geekie Award for 'Best Web Series' in 2014, and numerous Telly and Accolade awards. The series was very positively received by critics, who praised the quality of the production and stated that the show set a new standard for Star Trek fan films.^[3][4]

After the 11th episode was released in late 2017, the Star Trek Continues series ended.^[5]

• 1Cast
• 2Production
• 3Episodes
• 4Reaction

Cast[edit]

Regular cast[edit]

• Vic Mignogna as James T. Kirk, captain and commanding officer of the USS Enterprise. Mignogna is best known for his voice acting work and is a longtime Star Trek fan. He voiced the roles of Admiral Isaac Garrett and Somat in Star Trek Online.
• Todd Haberkorn as Spock, a human/Vulcan hybrid. Commander, science officer, first officer, and one of the captain's closest friends. Haberkorn is a voice actor and played Kevin the Teenaxian in Star Trek Beyond.
• Chuck Huber (Larry Nemecek in Episodes 1–2) as Leonard H. McCoy, MD, lieutenant commander, chief medical officer, and one of the captain's closest friends. Huber is also a voice actor. Nemecek is a well-recognized Trek expert and author of the Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion.
• Chris Doohan as Montgomery Scott, lieutenant commander and chief engineer, usually referred to as 'Scotty.' Doohan is the son of actor James Doohan, who portrayed the character in the original series. Doohan was also an extra in Star Trek: The Motion Picture, and portrayed a transporter chief in the 2009 film Star Trek and its sequel, Star Trek Into Darkness. He reprised his father's role of Scotty in Star Trek Online.

Featured cast[edit]

• Grant Imahara as Hikaru Sulu, lieutenant, helmsman and third officer. Imahara is best known for his work on Discovery's MythBusters as well as the creator of robot sidekick, 'Geoff Peterson,' for Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson.
• Kim Stinger as Nyota Uhura, lieutenant and communications officer.
• Wyatt Lenhart as Pavel A. Chekov, lieutenant j.g. (formerly ensign) and navigator.
• Michele Specht as Elise McKennah, PhD, a lieutenant and Starfleet's first full-time ship's counselor. Specht voiced Specialist Krog (a Na'kuhl agent) and Loriss (a Vorta) in Star Trek Online.

Trek alumni guest and recurring actors[edit]

Several past members of the Star Trek cast and crew have expressed support for the project and contributed to it, as have several who would go on to participate in officially licensed productions later.

• Beau Billingslea as Vice Admiral Stomm (Episode 7). Billingslea played Captain Abbott in Star Trek Into Darkness.
• Kipleigh Brown as Lieutenant j.g. (formerly Yeoman) Barbara Smith (Episodes 3–6, 8–11). Brown played Jane Taylor in Star Trek: Enterprise and Kuumaarke in Star Trek Online.
• Bobby Clark as Tharn (Episode 3). Clark previously played the Gorn captain in The Original Series episode 'Arena' as well as portraying Chekov's guard in 'Mirror, Mirror'.
• John de Lancie as Galisti (Episode 9).^[6] De Lancie played Q in Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and Star Trek: Voyager.
• Michael Dorn as the ISS computer voice (Episode 3). Dorn played Commander Worf in Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and the four Star Trek feature films featuring the cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation, and also played Worf's grandfather and namesake Colonel Worf in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.^[7]
• Doug Drexler as Paladin (Episode 1). Drexler is probably best known for his work as an award-winning visual effects artist on Star Trek as well as Battlestar Galactica and Defiance. He also contributed VFX for episodes 1–6 of Star Trek Continues.
• Michael Forest as Apollo (Episode 1). Forest reprises his role from The Original Series episode 'Who Mourns for Adonais?'.
• Jason Isaacs (credited as 'Jason Lorca') as an ESPer voice (Episode 11). Isaacs played Captain Lorca in Star Trek: Discovery.
• Rekha Sharma as Avi Samara (Episode 8). Sharma played Commander Landry in Star Trek: Discovery.
• Marina Sirtis as computer voice (Episodes 1, 4, 7, 10, 11). Sirtis played Commander Deanna Troi in Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Voyager (3 episodes), Star Trek: Enterprise (1 episode), and four Star Trek feature films.
• Fiona Vroom as Lolani (Episode 2). Vroom played an Orion crewmember in Star Trek Beyond.

Other recurring actors[edit]

Additional recurring actors — who were not specifically Trek alumni — included:

• Martin Bradford as Lieutenant Jabilo G. M'Benga, MD (Episodes 5, 10), relief medical officer.
• Steven Dengler as Lieutenant William C. Drake, chief of security (Episodes 1–10). Dengler is also the founder of Dracogen, one of the producers of the series.
• Erin Gray as Commodore Laura Gray, commanding officer of the Corinth IV starbase (Episodes 2, 7).
• Reuben Langdon as Lieutenant Kubaro Dickerson, security guard (Episodes 2, 3, 6, 10, 11).
• Cat Roberts as Lieutenant Elizabeth Palmer, relief communications officer (Episodes 3–4, 6–11). Dr. Roberts is a practicing physician.^[8]
• Liz Wagner as Ensign Lia Burke, RN (Episodes 3–5, 9–11).

Other guest actors and support[edit]

The first episode, 'Pilgrim of Eternity', featured Jamie Bamber (Lee 'Apollo' Adama from Battlestar Galactica and Matt Devlin from Law and Order UK) as well as original series guest actor Michael Forest reprising his role as Apollo. Marina Sirtis voiced the computer of the USS Enterprise, an homage to her connection to the original actress, Majel Barrett Roddenberry, who portrayed her character's mother, Lwaxana Troi, as well as the voice of the computer in the original Star Trek and Star Trek: The Next Generation.

For the second episode, 'Lolani', Lou Ferrigno (The Hulk from The Incredible Hulk (1978)) appeared as Zaminhon, Daniel Logan (Boba Fett from Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones) appeared as Ensign Tongaroa, Erin Gray (Col. Wilma Deering from Buck Rogers in the 25th Century) appeared as Commodore Gray and Matthew Ewald (Nicholas Bluetooth from Galidor) appeared as Crewman Kenway.

The third episode, 'Fairest of Them All', featured guest support from Asia DeMarcos as Marlena Moreau (played in the original series by BarBara Luna), Bobby Clark as Council Leader Tharn, Bobby Quinn Rice as transporter technician, Michael Dorn as the computer of the ISS Enterprise, and the first appearance of Kipleigh Brown as Barbara Smith (played in the original series by Andrea Dromm). Recurring cast member Cat Roberts (Lieutenant Palmer, played in the original series by Elizabeth Rogers), joined the series as of this episode.

The fourth episode, 'The White Iris', featured the return of Sirtis as the Enterprise computer, as well as guest stars Colin Baker (Doctor Who), Nakia Burrise (Power Rangers), Adrienne Wilkinson (Xena: Warrior Princess), Tiffany Brouwer (Femme Fatales), and Gabriela Fresquez, with cameos by Chris Gore and Robert J. Sawyer.

Episode six, 'Come Not Between the Dragons', guest-starred Gigi Edgley of Farscape fame. Rod Roddenberry, son of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, had a cameo appearance as a bridge officer in the episode.

Episode seven, 'Embracing the Winds', featured Clare Kramer (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) and Beau Billingslea (Cowboy Bebop), as well as the return of Erin Gray's flag officer character (Commodore Gray from the second episode) and Marina Sirtis as the computer voice.

Episode eight, 'Still Treads the Shadow', featured Rekha Sharma (Battlestar Galactica and Star Trek: Discovery).

Episode nine, 'What Ships are For', featured John de Lancie (three Star Trek series) and Anne Lockhart (the original Battlestar Galactica series).

Episodes ten and eleven, 'To Boldly Go: Part I' and 'To Boldly Go: Part II' written by Sawyer, featured Nicola Bryant (Doctor Who), Cas Anvar (The Expanse), Amy Rydell (reprising her mother Joanne Linville's role from the original series), and Mark Meer (Mass Effect). Jason Isaacs (Captain Gabriel Lorca from Star Trek: Discovery) also provides a vocal cameo in Part II; although credited under the pseudonym Jason Lorca.^[9].

Production[edit]

After directing an episode of Starship Farragut for Farragut Films, Mignogna proposed to the companies involved in its production to form a partnership to support the development of a new web series, aimed at continuing the episodes of TOS.^[10]

A facility of 9,600 square feet (891 m²) was acquired in Kingsland, Georgia, to host the sets of the Enterprise,^[11][12] which were built from the original soundstage blueprints.^[10]

On March 23, 2012, Farragut Films announced the official cast of the series that, among other professionals, included Chris Doohan (son of James Doohan) and MythBusters' Grant Imahara.^[13][14]

Mignogna and the production team recreated the style of the original series in its sets, cinematography, costumes, acting, and storytelling style. They duplicated the four-act structure used in the original because of the need for commercial breaks. They primarily used the original series' incidental music, as well as the original theme song and credit typography. Starting with the fifth episode, original music by composer Andy Farber was included. They shot the episodes in 4:3 aspect ratio to duplicate the original series' TV format.^[2][15]

The first episode, 'Pilgrim of Eternity', premiered at Phoenix Comicon on May 24, 2013, and was released to the public the same day.^[16] 'Lolani', the second episode, finished shooting in November 2013^[17] with guest stars Lou Ferrigno and Erin Gray. The episode was released online in February 2014 after premiering at Dallas Sci-Fi Expo in Dallas, Texas. Episode three, 'Fairest of Them All', began principal photography that month,^[17] with a premiere at Supanova 2014 in Sydney, Australia in June 2014.^[18] Pre-production on the fourth episode of the series, 'The White Iris', began in November 2014,^[19] with a release on May 29, 2015, at Phoenix Comicon. The fifth episode premiered on September 25, 2015, at Salt Lake Comic Con followed by a public release on the following day.^[20]

According to the ending credits of 'Fairest of Them All', a scene of the episode was shot on location at NASA's Space Center Houston, home of the restored life-size prop of the original Star TrekGalileo shuttlecraft.

In early 2015, Star Trek Continues announced the acquisition of the remainder of the Kingsland facility, totaling 18,500 square feet, under exclusive ownership of Trek Continues Inc. The studio was re-branded as 'Stage 9', an homage to the original series' soundstage at Desilu.

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Kickstarter campaigns[edit]

After releasing the first episode, funded by Mignogna,^[10] new funds for the continuation of the series were raised in part from a successful Kickstarter campaign, humorously dubbed a 'Kirkstarter'. It was held from October 7 to November 6, 2013, and raised $126,028 from 2,981 backers, surpassing the set goal of $100,000, to cover funding for episodes 2, 3, and 4.^[10][21]

A second Kickstarter campaign ran from January 17^[22] to February 16, 2015. It successfully raised $214,584, exceeding its goal of $100,000. The sum covered the production costs of episodes 5, 6, and 7, and facilitated the construction of an engineering room and planet set.^[23][24]

A third and final crowdfunding campaign — this time organized via Indiegogo — was held in early 2016, raising $199,049. Shortly thereafter, the producers announced that additional private donations to the Trek Continues Inc. charity allowed the company to exceed its fundraising goal of $350,000, thus enabling the production of four additional episodes.

Episodes[edit]

Full episodes[edit]

Short vignettes[edit]

Before screening the first episode, a series of three short videos, called vignettes, were released from July 31 to November 30, 2012. The first vignette is an extended ending of the last episode of TOS, 'Turnabout Intruder', created to present the fan production as a direct continuation of the original series.^[27]

Reaction[edit]

Reception[edit]

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The reception of Star Trek Continues has been very positive, with critics and reviewers highlighting the quality of the production and the resemblance of the episodes with those of the original series. On July 12, 2013, Dan Roth of SyFy's Blastr wrote: 'Lots of people try to make fan versions of Trek. None of them look like this.'^[28]Slice of SciFi's Sam Sloan wrote: 'They have certainly raised the bar for independent Star Trek episodic film making',^[3] an opinion shared by other reviewers as well.^[4] On June 18, 2014, Bill Watters of TrekMovie.com wrote: 'Star Trek Continues does deserve the 'Continues' in its title as they do a really strong job at capturing (and yes, 'continuing') the atmosphere of TOS.'^[29]

On December 16, 2013, about a month after the ending of the Kickstarter campaign, Kevin Pollak's Chat Show published a video interview with Tom Hanks in which the actor highly praises a Star Trek fan production and its 'people that recreate with incredibly, startlingly great production values unseen Star Trek episodes', adding that 'it looks exactly like the starship Enterprise'.^[30] Although he could not put a name to the series, he described it citing information compatible with the identity of Star Trek Continues, which motivated the producers and a few sources to assume and claim that the actor was referring to them.^[4][31]

On July 31, 2014, Rod Roddenberry attended an official screening of 'Fairest of Them All' in Las Vegas and endorsed the project stating: 'I do have to say, and I said this after 'Lolani', I'm pretty damn sure my dad would consider this canon. The fact that you do stories that mean something, that have depth, that make us all think a little bit, I really think he would applaud you guys, and I applaud you guys, and as far as I am concerned, it is canon. So thank you.'^[32]

The publication Wired has dedicated to Star Trek Continues five videos of its video series Obsessed, that aims to highlight 'what happens when people live out their obsessions to the fullest.'^[33]Obsessed shows Mignogna and other people of the staff explaining to what extent they have paid attention to detail in order to recreate the Enterprise set and the visual style of TOS. The videos have been published from June 13 to July 1, 2014 on the Obsessed website.^[33]

Awards and nominations[edit]

See also[edit]

• Star Trek: New Voyages: another fan made series modeled on the original Star Trek series

References[edit]

1. ^Mignogna, Vic (August 24, 2016). 'Star Trek 50 | Continuing the Five-Year Mission' (Interview). Interviewed by Susie Tommaney.
2. ^ ^abMignogna, Vic (November 11, 2013). 'Star Trek Continues: Interview With Vic Mignogna' (Interview). Interviewed by Eric Norcross.
3. ^ ^abSam Sloan (May 26, 2013). 'Star Trek Continues – A Slice of SciFi Review'. Slice of SciFi. Retrieved October 23, 2014.
4. ^ ^abcCourt Mann (April 13, 2014). 'Expert nostalgia: 'Star Trek' fan tribute sets a new standard'. Daily Herald. Retrieved October 25, 2014.
5. ^News and Guest Appearances in Star Trek Continues – Episode 9; retrieved July 18, 2017
6. ^'What Ships Are For (2017) Full Cast & Crew'. IMDB.com. IMDB. Retrieved June 20, 2019.
7. ^Beck, Donald R. (Director) (1991). Star Trek: 25th Anniversary Special.
8. ^https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6536229
9. ^https://www.inverse.com/article/40623-jason-isaacs-star-trek-discovery-interview
10. ^ ^abcdMignogna, Vic (April 4, 2014). 'The coolest Star Trek reboot you're probably not watching' (Interview). Interviewed by Michael Franco. CNET. Retrieved October 20, 2014.
11. ^'Farragut Films Adds to Management Team and Secures Largest Studio of Trek Sets'(PDF). Farragut Films. December 29, 2011. Archived from the original(PDF) on September 24, 2015. Retrieved October 27, 2014.
12. ^Tim Hornyak (October 10, 2013). 'Inside a $40,000 Star Trek fan episode'. CNET. Retrieved October 20, 2014.
13. ^'New Webseries, Star Trek Continues, Announces Cast'(PDF). Farragut Films. March 23, 2012. Archived from the original(PDF) on October 27, 2014. Retrieved October 27, 2014.
14. ^'Chris Doohan Cast as Scotty in New Star Trek Fan Series'. TrekNews.net. March 27, 2012. Retrieved October 27, 2014.
15. ^'Fan Production Star Trek Continues releases first episode'. TrekMovie.com. Retrieved November 1, 2013.
16. ^Steve Crandall. 'Phoenix Comicon 2013 To Premier First Episode Of Star Trek Continues Webseries'. Star Trek Continues. Archived from the original on October 20, 2014. Retrieved October 20, 2014.
17. ^ ^abGustavoLeao (November 16, 2013). 'Exclusive: Vic Mignogna Reveals Details for Second and Third Episodes of Star Trek Continues Webseries'. TrekWeb. Archived from the original on October 17, 2014. Retrieved October 17, 2014.
18. ^'Boldly Going to Supanova Sydney and Perth, Star Trek Continues Down Under!'. Supanova Pop Culture Expo. Archived from the original on May 30, 2014. Retrieved October 17, 2014.
19. ^Sloan, Sam (November 20, 2014). ''Star Trek Continues' Gears Up for Episode Four'. Retrieved November 28, 2014.
20. ^'Salt Lake Comic Con'. Retrieved September 9, 2015.
21. ^'Star Trek Continues Webseries'. Kickstarter. November 7, 2013. Retrieved October 17, 2014.
22. ^Iacovino, Kayla (January 17, 2015). 'Star Trek Continues Launches Kirkstarter 2.0 To Fund New Episodes'. TrekMovie.com. Retrieved January 18, 2015.
23. ^'Star Trek Continues 2015 'Kirkstarter 2.0' Reaches It's Goal'. Visionary Trek. Retrieved February 22, 2015.
24. ^'Star Trek Continues 2015 'Kirkstarter 2.0''. Kickstarter. Retrieved February 22, 2015.
25. ^'Star Trek Continues: Episodes'. Retrieved August 3, 2016.
26. ^ ^abMignogna, Vic. 'From the Captain's Chair'. Star Trek Continues News. Retrieved October 13, 2017.
27. ^Pascale, Antony (August 6, 2012). 'First Vignette From 'Star Trek Continues' Fan Series Picks Up Where TOS Left Off'. TrekMovie.com. Retrieved October 18, 2014.
28. ^Dan Roth (July 12, 2013). 'This new Star Trek fan series is the closest we've ever seen to the original'. Blastr. SyFy. Retrieved October 21, 2014.
29. ^Bill Watters (June 18, 2014). 'Review: Star Trek Continues, Episode 3: Fairest of Them All'. TrekMovie.com. Retrieved October 21, 2014.
30. ^Pollak, Kevin (December 16, 2013). KPCS: Tom Hanks #190. qqKevin Pollak's Chat Showqq. Event occurs at 2:05:26. Retrieved October 21, 2014.
31. ^'Tom Hanks had this to say about us on Kevin Pollak's show'. Official Star Trek Continues Facebook page. December 17, 2013. Retrieved October 21, 2014.
32. ^'Statement of Rod Roddenberry about Star Trek Continues'. Official Star Trek Continues Facebook page. August 4, 2014. Retrieved October 21, 2014.
33. ^ ^ab'Obsessed Video Series'. Wired. Condé Nast. Retrieved October 17, 2014.
34. ^'Previous Winners'. Lost Episode Festival Toronto. Retrieved October 16, 2014.
35. ^'Film Festival Winners'. 71st World Science Fiction Convention. Retrieved October 22, 2014.
36. ^'The 2014 Geekie Awards Winners & Nominees'. The Geekie Awards. Retrieved October 19, 2014.
37. ^'2014 Awards Winners'. Burbank International Film Festival. Retrieved October 19, 2014.
38. ^'2015 Telly Award'. Star Trek Continues Facebook. Retrieved March 11, 2015.
39. ^'2015 Accolade Awards'. Accolade Competition. Retrieved March 21, 2015.
40. ^'The 2015 Independent Star Trek Fan Film Awards Winners' YouTube, 7/28/2018
41. ^'Independent Star Trek Fan Film Awards Announced' TrekToday, 4/27/2015
42. ^'And the winners are: The Star Trek Independent Fan Film Awards' TrekMovie, 4/26/2015
43. ^'The Star Trek Independent Fan Film Awards' The Trek BBS, 2/9/2015
44. ^https://pv.webbyawards.com/2016/online-film-video/general-film/drama-long-form-or-series
45. ^'The 2016 Independent Star Trek Fan Film Awards Winners' YouTube, 4/18/2016
46. ^'Independent Star Trek Film Awards – Winners Announced!' Fan Film Factor, 4/25/2016
47. ^'The 2017 Independent Star Trek Fan Film Awards Winners' YouTube, 5/2/2017
48. ^'TREKLANTA 2017' Treksphere, 5/8/2017
49. ^'And The 2017 Independent Star Trek Fan Film Award Goes to...' The Rogers Revue, 5/5/2017
50. ^'2017 Independent Star Trek Film Awards (now the 'BJO's') WINNERS ANNOUNCED!' Fan Film Factor, 5/3/2017
51. ^'The 2018 Bjo Awards Ceremony – Finalists and Winners' YouTube, 6/4/2018
52. ^'BJO FAN FILM AWARD WINNERS for 2018 announced!' Axanar Productions, 5/29/2018
53. ^'BJO FAN FILM AWARD WINNERS for 2018 announced!' Fan Film Factor, 5/28/2018

External links[edit]

• Official website
• Star Trek Continues on IMDb

Majel Barrett-Roddenberry (/ˈmeɪdʒəl/; born Majel Leigh Hudec;^[2] February 23, 1932 – December 18, 2008) was an American actress and producer. She was best known for her roles as Nurse Christine Chapel in the original Star Trek series and Lwaxana Troi on Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, as well as for being the voice of most onboard computer interfaces throughout the series. She became the second wife of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry.

As the wife of Roddenberry and given her ongoing relationship with Star Trek—participating in some way in every series during her lifetime—she was sometimes^[2] referred to as 'the First Lady of Star Trek'. She married Roddenberry in Japan on August 6, 1969, after the cancellation of the original Star Trek series. They had one son together, Eugene 'Rod' Roddenberry, Jr., born in 1974.

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Life and career[edit]

Barrett was born in Cleveland, Ohio. She began taking acting classes as a child. She attended Shaker Heights High School, graduating in 1950^[3] before going on to the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida, then had some stage roles and came to Hollywood. Her father, William Hudec, was a Cleveland police officer. He was killed in the line of duty on August 30, 1955 while Barrett was touring with an off-Broadway road company.^[4] She was briefly seen in Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957) in an ad parody at the beginning of the film, and had roles in a few movies, including Love in a Goldfish Bowl (1961), Sylvia (1965), A Guide for the Married Man (1967), and Track of Thunder (1967). She worked at the Desilu Studios on several TV shows, including Bonanza, The Untouchables, The Lucy Show, and The Lieutenant (produced by Gene Roddenberry). She received training in comedy from Lucille Ball. In 1960, she played Gwen Rutherford on Leave It to Beaver.

Star Trek[edit]

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In various roles, Barrett participated in every incarnation of the popular science fictionStar Trekfranchise produced, including live-action and animated versions, television and cinema, and all of the time periods in which the various series have been set.

She first appeared in Star Trek's initial pilot, 'The Cage' (1964), as the USS Enterprise's brunette unnamed first officer, 'Number One'. Barrett was romantically involved with Roddenberry, whose marriage was on the verge of failing at the time, and the idea of having an otherwise unknown woman in a leading role just because she was the producer's girlfriend is said to have infuriated NBC network executives who insisted that Roddenberry give the role to a man.^[5]William Shatner corroborated this in Star Trek Memories, and added that female viewers at test screenings hated the character, as well.^[6] Shatner noted that women viewers felt she was 'pushy' and 'annoying' and also thought that 'Number One shouldn't be trying so hard to fit in with the men.'^[7] Barrett often joked that Roddenberry, given the choice between keeping Mr. Spock (whom the network also hated) or the woman character, 'kept the Vulcan and married the woman, 'cause he didn't think Leonard [Nimoy] would have it the other way around.'^[8]

When Roddenberry was casting for the second Star Trek pilot, 'Where No Man Has Gone Before', she changed her last name from Hudec to Barrett and wore a blonde wig for the role of nurse Christine Chapel, a frequently recurring character,^[2] known for her unrequited affection for the dispassionate Spock. Her first appearance as Chapel in film dailies prompted NBC executive Jerry Stanley to yodel 'Well, well—look who's back!'.^[5] In an early scene in Star Trek: The Motion Picture, viewers are informed that she has now become Doctor Chapel, a role which she reprised briefly in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, as Commander Chapel. Barrett provided several voices for Star Trek: The Animated Series, including those of Nurse Chapel and a communications officer named M'Ress, an ailuroid officer who served alongside Uhura.^[9]

Barrett returned years later in Star Trek: The Next Generation, cast as the outrageously self-assertive, iconoclastic Betazoid ambassador Lwaxana Troi, who appeared as a recurring character in the series. Her character often vexed the captain of the Enterprise, Jean-Luc Picard, who spurned her amorous advances. She later appeared as Ambassador Troi in several episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, where her character developed a strong relationship with Constable Odo.

She provided the regular voice of the onboard computers of Federation starships for Star Trek: The Original Series, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager, and most of the Star Trek movies. She reprised her role as a shipboard computer's voice in two episodes of the prequel series Star Trek: Enterprise, thus making her the only actor to have a role in all six televised Star Trek series produced up to that time. She also lent her voice to various computer games and software related to the franchise. The association of her voice with interactions with computers led to Google's Assistant project being initially codenamed Google Majel. Barrett had also made a point of attending a major Star Trek convention each year in an effort to inspire fans and keep the franchise alive.

Barrett is also one of six actors (the others being Jonathan Frakes, Kate Mulgrew, George Takei, Avery Brooks, and Michael Dorn) to lend their voices to the CD-ROM Star Trek: Captain's Chair, reprising her role as the voice of the ships' computers.

On December 9, 2008, less than ten days before her death, Roddenberry Productions announced that she would be providing the voice of the ship's computer once again, this time for the 2009 motion picture reboot of Star Trek.^[10] Sean Rossall, a Roddenberry family spokesman, stated that she had already completed the voiceover work, around December 4, 2008. The film is dedicated to Roddenberry and Barrett.

Barrett and her husband were honored in 2002 by the Space Foundation with the Douglas S. Morrow Public Outreach Award^[11] for their work creating awareness of and enthusiasm for space.

Other roles[edit]

She appeared as Primus Dominic in Roddenberry's 1973 postapocalyptic TV drama pilot, Genesis II; as Dr. Bradley in his 1974 TV movie The Questor Tapes and as Lilith the housekeeper in his 1977 TV drama pilot, Spectre. She also appeared in Michael Crichton's 1973 sci-fi Western, Westworld as Miss Carrie, a robot brothel madam; the 1977 Stanley Kramer thriller The Domino Principle;^[13] and the 1979 TV movie The Man in the Santa Claus Suit starring Fred Astaire. Her later film appearances included small roles in Teresa's Tattoo (1994) and Mommy (1995).

After Gene Roddenberry's death, Barrett took material from his archives to bring two of his ideas into production. She was executive producer of Earth: Final Conflict (in which she also played the character Dr. Julianne Belman), and Andromeda. She also served as creative director for Gene Roddenberry's Lost Universe, a comic book series based on another archival Roddenberry concept.^[14]

In a gesture of goodwill between the creators of the Star Trek franchise and of Babylon 5 (some of whose fans viewed them as rivals),^[15] she appeared in the Babylon 5 episode 'Point of No Return', as Lady Morella, the psychic widow of the Centauri emperor, a role which foreshadowed major plot elements in the series.

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Parodying her voice work as the computer for the Star Trek series, Barrett performed as a guest voice on Family Guy as the voice of Stewie Griffin's ship's computer in the episode 'Emission Impossible'.

Barrett's widely recognized voice performance as the Star Trek computer inspired the Amazon Alexa interactive virtual assistant, according to its developer Toni Reid, although Barrett had no direct role in it.^[16]

Railroad voicework[edit]

The Southern Pacific Railroad used her voice talent contained inside Harmon Electronics (of Grain Valley, MO) track-side defect detector devices, used in various locations west of the Mississippi River. When a defect is identified on the passing train, the system responds with her recorded voice announcing the defect location information to the train crew over the radio. In railroad forums and railroad radio monitoring groups, she was and is still referred to as the 'SP Lady'. However, with the implementation of newer hotbox detector technology, finding her voice today on working detectors is very rare. The hotbox detectors that had her voice installed in them were not upgradeable to the newer digital signaling requirements, and finding parts for them was problematic. Today, her voice is found on smaller regional railroads, usually only at dragging equipment locations, such as in California at milepost 24.6 on the Metrolink Lancaster line (under the I-5 and I-210 interchange in Sylmar), and in Oregon on the Portland & Western at milepost 746.5, near Lake Oswego. These voiced detectors remain because the lines were once owned by Southern Pacific, and because only two unchanging recorded messages are used, compared to the dynamic changing library used in hotbox detectors. The only major railroad that still uses her voice today is Union Pacific.^[17]

Final voiceover work[edit]

Some of Barrett's final voiceover work was still in post-production, to be released in 2009 after her death, as mentioned in the credits of the 2009 movie Star Trek, again as the voice of the Enterprise computer. An animated production called Hamlet A.D.D. credited her as Majel Barrett Roddenberry, playing the voiceover role of Queen Robot.^[18]

Star Trek Computer Voice Sounds

Death[edit]

Star Trek Computer Voice Simulator

Barrett-Roddenberry died on the morning of December 18, 2008, at her home in Bel Air, Los Angeles, California, as a result of leukemia. She was 76 years old.^[19]

A public funeral was held on January 4, 2009, in Los Angeles. More than 250 people attended, including Nichelle Nichols, George Takei, Walter Koenig, her on-screen daughter Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner, Wil Wheaton, and many Trekkies.^[20]

After Gene Roddenberry died in 1991, Majel Barrett-Roddenberry commissioned Celestis to launch her together with Gene on an infinite mission to deepest space.^[21] After manifesting them on NASA's 'Sunjammer' mission, the agency cancelled the mission in 2014.^[22] Celestis has rescheduled their launch for 2020, the next available commercial mission to deep space. A sample of the couple's cremated remains will be sealed into a specially made capsule designed to withstand space travel. A spacecraft will carry the capsule, along with digitized tributes from fans, on Celestis' 'Enterprise Flight.'^[23]

Filmography[edit]

• Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957) – shampoo demonstrator (uncredited)
• As Young as We Are (1958) – Joyce Goodwin
• The Black Orchid (1958) – Luisa (uncredited)
• The Buccaneer (1958) – Townswoman #1
• Love in a Goldfish Bowl (1961) – Alice
• Back Street (1961) – Woman at Table (uncredited)
• The Quick and the Dead (1963) – Teresa
• Sylvia (1965) – Anne (uncredited)
• Made in Paris (1966) – Mrs. David Prentiss (uncredited)
• Country Boy (1966) – Miss Wynn
• A Guide for the Married Man (1967) – Mrs. Fred V.
• Track of Thunder (1967) – Georgia Clark
• Westworld (1973) – Miss Carrie
• The Questor Tapes (1974, TV movie) – Dr. Bradley
• The Domino Principle (1977) – Yuloff
• Spectre (1977, TV movie) – Mrs. Schnaible
• The Suicide's Wife (1979, TV movie) – Clarissa Harmon
• Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) – Dr. Chapel
• The Man in the Santa Claus Suit (1979, TV movie) – Miss Forsythe
• Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986) – Commander Chapel
• Teresa's Tattoo (1994) – Henrietta
• Star Trek Generations (1994) – Computer (voice)
• Mommy (1995) – Mrs. Withers
• Star Trek: First Contact (1996) – Computer (voice)
• Star Trek: Nemesis (2002) – Computer (voice)
• Star Trek (2009) – Starfleet Computer (voice) (posthumous release)
• Hamlet A.D.D. (2014) – Queen Robot (voice) (final film role)

Star Trek Sound Effects

References[edit]

1. ^https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000854/.Missing or empty |title= (help); External link in |website= (help); Missing or empty |url= (help)
2. ^ ^abcMajel Barrett Roddenberry: Actress who found fame as the 'First Lady of Star Trek', The Daily Telegraph, December 21, 2008
3. ^'1950 Shaker Heights High School Yearbook'. classmates.com.(registration required)
4. ^ODMP: William Hudec. Viewed 2014-12-06.
5. ^ ^abSolow, Herbert F.; Justman, Robert H. (1996). Inside Star Trek: The Real Story. New York: Pocket Books. ISBN0-671-89628-8.
6. ^Star Trek Memories, dictated by William Shatner and transcribed by Chris Kreski, which HarperCollins published, with the ISBN0-06-017734-9, in 1993, made this claim in the chapter on 'The Cage'.
7. ^William Shatner, Star Trek Memories, Harper Collins, 1993. p.65
8. ^'Bio and interview of Majel Barrett'. Creation presents Majel Barrett. August 25–26, 1990. Archived from the original on January 17, 2009. Retrieved May 31, 2013.
9. ^Mangels, Andy (Summer 2018). 'Star Trek: The Animated Series'. RetroFan. TwoMorrows Publishing (1): 25–37.
10. ^Roddenberry Productions press release, December 11, 2008. Retrieved December 18, 2008. Archived December 20, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
11. ^– Space Foundation Douglas S. Morrow Public Outreach AwardArchived 2011-10-04 at the Wayback Machine
12. ^Star Trek creator's widow dies of leukaemia at 76, Daily Mail, December 20, 2008
13. ^Majel Roddenberry. 'Majel Barrett Roddenberry – Biography'. Roddenberry.com. Archived from the original on 2011-11-06. Retrieved 2011-12-10.
14. ^'Tekno-Comix Debuts First Titles'. Electronic Gaming Monthly. Ziff Davis (63): 232. October 1994.
15. ^Ntua.grArchived 2009-02-01 at the Wayback Machine
16. ^Green, Penelope (2017-07-11). ''Alexa, Where Have You Been All My Life?''. The New York Times. Retrieved 2017-07-12. When Toni Reid and her colleagues at Amazon set out to build the device that is now known as Alexa, they were inspired by the computer that drove the Enterprise on Star Trek (voiced by Majel Barrett Roddenberry, who played Nurse Chapel on the series and was married to the show’s creator). Focusing on cadence and an accent that would suggest 'smart, humble, helpful,' the team tested voices that a diverse population would respond to. 'Our goal was to have Alexa be humanlike,' Ms. Reid said, but why end there?
17. ^'Live Railroad Radio Communications'. RailroadRadio.net. Retrieved 2007-02-12. Select UP San Francisco Bay Area for real-time communications feed.
18. ^'Voyages of Star Trek Computer Voice Majel Barrett Roddenberry'. Voices.com. Retrieved 2009-06-12.
19. ^Sci-fi icon Majel Barrett Roddenberry dies at 76, Reuters, Thursday, December 18, 2008
20. ^'L.A. funeral held for actress Majel Roddenberry'. CTV News. Retrieved 2008-01-05.
21. ^'Ashes of 'Star Trek' creator and wife rocketing to deep space'. Space Daily. January 26, 2009. Retrieved 2019-03-21.
22. ^'Solar Sail Demonstrator ('Sunjammer')'. NASA.gov. Retrieved 2019-03-21.
23. ^'Star Trek Community'. Celestis.com. Retrieved 2019-03-21.

External links[edit]

• Majel Barrett on IMDb
• Majel Barrett at AllMovie
• Majel Barrett-Roddenberry at Memory Alpha (a Star Trekwiki)
• AP Obituary in the Los Angeles Times