Comments on: Majel Barrett Roddenberry, 1932 – 2008

By: SEO

SEO — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 14:20:28 +0000

She will be missed………….what a great lady……….may she rest in peace.

By: StevoR

StevoR — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 05:49:08 +0000

D’oh! That’s ‘TNG’ ie. ‘Star Trek : The Next Gen’ not THG! Arrgh! typos.

Vale Majel Barrett Roddenberry.

By: StevoR

StevoR — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 05:47:03 +0000

Deanna Troi was gorgeous. I had a major crush on her.

Not so much her mum Lwaxana but .. Yes she will be missed. THG was tehbets of the Trek series if you ask me .but then Deanaa may have got me abit biased there!

arkonbey said on December 19th, 2008 at 9:02 am :

“My favorite role of hers is still the Dowager Empress in Babylon 5.
Everyone always forgets Bab 5!”

Not me! I loved Babylon 5 & still consider it the greatest SF TV show ever. Bar none.

Dowager empress – was she the one who had the prophecy / vision about the Shadows destroying B5 and finally got blown away by the first Shadow battleship outside the station before the Shadows had emerged? Is that the right one?

By: Syera

Syera — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 04:08:01 +0000

*sniff*

I liked the character of Lwaxana Troi. She was rather over-the-top, but she lent a comic air to the stuffy atmosphere of TNG. Also, she was quite capable of pulling some real tear-jerkers when she let down her silly front to show her sensitive and vulnerable side. (And I suspect it wasn’t all acting – the episode where she talks to Alexander about being alone wasn’t filmed too long after Gene’s death, if I recall.) And oh, how funny it was to see her make Odo uncomfortable.

Majel Barrett Roddenberry may be gone, but with any luck the Roddenberry dream – one of hope and optimism for the future – will live on.

By: ccpetersen

ccpetersen — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 20:53:08 +0000

I got an email about this yesterday at about the time the news hit the Twitter world. Wrote a blog entry about her death and then spent some time thinking about what a great actor this woman was. I wouldn’t mind aging if I knew I could be as exuberant as she was, and as exuberant as she played Lwaxana Troi. No fear… no regrets.

Hailing frequencies closed, Majel Barrett Roddenberry. You will be missed!

By: Yoeman

Yoeman — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:20:16 +0000

Very sad news………..

By: Amy F.

Amy F. — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:08:05 +0000

My-Name-is-Kenneth:
It was called Q-in-law. And the audio version is hilarious, Majel and John de Lancie do the reading together.