Star Trek creator's widow to voice J.J. Abrams' Enterprise computer
It's almost as if J.J. Abrams is patting nervous Star Trek fans on the back and cooing, "It's OK. Everything's gonna be alright."Variety reported this week that Majel Barrett-Roddenberry will reprise her role as the voice of the Enterprise computer for Abrams' upcoming Star Trek flick. Barret-Roddenberry, the widow of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, voiced the computer for all six Trek series and many of the movies. She also played Christine Chapel in the original series and two of the films as well as "Number One" in Star Trek's original pilot. And who could forget her as Lwaxana Troi, the randy Betazoid from The Next Genertation?
Speaking as a Trek fan, this is great news. It almost has me convinced that Abrams is really trying to respect the franchise while giving it a new spin. The casting of Barrett-Roddenberry should, for a few days at least, calm down fans who say Abrams' movie will be too much of a departure from what we all know and love about Star Trek. Now, if only they could script in a scene with Lwaxana Troi chasing Spock around the Enterprise. Too much?
Star Trek is due in theaters May 8, 2009.

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