Majel Barrett-Roddenberry (b. Majel Leigh Hudec on February 23, 1932 in Columbus, Ohio) is an American actress, and producer. She is also the widow of television director/producer/writer and Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry.
As a result of her marriage to Gene Roddenberry and the fact that she has been in every Star Trek series, she is sometimes referred to as "the First Lady of Star Trek". Due to this, it is rumored that when she dies, no future Star Trek projects will be made because without her, it just wouldn't be Star Trek. She and Gene Roddenberry were married in Japan on August 6, 1969, after the cancellation of the original Star Trek series.
Majel and Gene had been lovers for years when he decided it was time to marry her and asked her to join him -- although he happened to be visiting Japan at the time. Gene did not adhere to any particular religion and since they were in Japan they chose to have a Shinto-Buddhist wedding on 6 August 1969. They regarded this as their real wedding, but his divorce was not yet final and they made it legal with a civil ceremony on 29 December 1969.
Mother of Rod Roddenberry
Is one of only 32 actors or actresses to have starred in both the original Star Trek (up to and including Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country) and then in one of the spin offs.
Along with Leonard Nimoy, she is one of only two actors to appear in both the first and last episodes of the original "Star Trek" (1966) series.
She is the only actor to appear in all five "Star Trek" series ("Star Trek" (1966), "Star Trek: The Next Generation" (1987), "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" (1993), "Star Trek: Voyager" (1995) and "Enterprise" (2001)). She played Number One, Nurse Christine Chapel and the Enterprise computer voice in "Star Trek" (1966), Ambassador Lwaxana Troi and the Federation computer voice in "Star Trek: The Next Generation" (1987) and "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" (1993), Voyager's computer voice in "Star Trek: Voyager" (1995) and the Defiant and Enterprise-D computer voices in "Enterprise" (2001). She also supplied various voices in "Star Trek" (1973) and appeared in Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979), Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986), Star Trek: Generations (1994), Star Trek: First Contact (1996) and Star Trek: Nemesis (2002).
