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Majel Barrett May Voice The Computer In Star Trek: Discovery

Majel Barrett May Voice The Computer In Star Trek: Discovery

In some surprising but very welcome news, it appears as though the late Majel Barrett Roddenberry could voice the computer in Bryan Fuller’s upcoming Star Trek: Discovery series.

“How is this even possible?” you ask. Well, according to a tweet posted by Roddenberry Entertainment, Majel’s voice had been recorded phonetically. This allows her recorded voice to be rearranged and used for upcoming projects, including a new Star Trek TV series.

Additionally, Majel’s voice is being considered for other projects, including for use on smartphones and possibly even navigation devices.

I know I’m not alone in saying I’d be overjoyed to hear Majel’s voice again in Star Trek. Bring on 2017!

Gene and Majel Barrett Roddenberry

Gene and Majel Barrett Roddenberry

Majel Barrett Roddenberry is best known for her role as Nurse Christine Chapel in Star Trek: The Original Series, Lwaxana Troi on Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and as the voice of the computer in the later series. She was also the second wife of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry. She died in 2008 after a battle with leukemia.

The first episode of Star Trek: Discovery will premiere with a broadcast TV special on CBS. That episode and all subsequent episodes will be exclusively shown in the US on the video streaming service CBS All Access.

Alex Kurtzman, Bryan Fuller and Rod Roddenberry have been announced as executive producers, with Nicholas Meyer (director of The Wrath of Khan and The Undiscovered Country and co-writer of The Voyage Home) is serving as a writer and consulting producer.

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5 Comments

5 Comments

  1. Susan Harwood

    September 9, 2016 at 5:56 pm

    It would be amazing to have Majel’s voice for the computer!!

  2. jackson roy kirk

    September 9, 2016 at 10:18 pm

    Tears of Joy!

  3. SFSeries&Movies

    September 10, 2016 at 11:52 am

    Really would be great!

  4. Bruce Gaede

    October 14, 2016 at 9:19 pm

    Been wanting to do that myself compiling samples from ST game software for the lexicon! Got the idea after playing the game in late 90’s! I realized then how much theoretical digital storage it would use as well as the quantity of memory for the federations computer to behave the way it does hypothetically speaking! Why has it taken so long for the Smartphone MFG’s to update from Dumb? Ironically wouldn’t this classify as a #NoBrainer?

  5. squished_citizen

    September 13, 2017 at 8:37 pm

    Yes . . perfect! I predicted back in the 80’s that completely new original cast TOS episodes would be created using advanced computer generated characters and voice recreation some day. I wonder if I will live long enough to actually see it happen though,.

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