She was married to Gene Robbenberry after all… as far as I know she is in more shows than anyone else! From the very first episode (nurse Chapel) to TNG/DS9 (Lwaxana) as well as being the voice of the computer for many shows!
Practically speaking, you can just watch “The Menagerie”, which clip-shows most of the important stuff, but I believe Paramount+ also has the full pilot “The Cage”.
lol Let it be known I have nothing against Majel Barrett. I immensely appreciate the endless work she put into keeping Trek going over the years, I love that her computer voice is omnipresent, I dig her as Nurse Chapel, and I think she would’ve been great as #1 on TOS, had she continued the role.
Personally, I just think the writers pushed the earlier Lwaxana character too far into purposefully annoying territory, and without enough redeeming qualities to balance it out. She embodied some highly dislikable characteristics – a narcissistic sense of entitlement, being rudely dismissive, ignoring boundaries and being seemingly oblivious to others’ feelings – which never made sense to me, her being a telepath. Either she’s a Betazoid lacking in telepathy, or she’s well aware her impositions and advances are unwanted and make people uncomfortable, but doesn’t care and proceeds anyway. But any blame, I put solely on the writers, not Majel. And I definitely softened to her when they started giving her some character development, later in TNG and esp in DS9 with the Odo plotline. The elevator scene completely won me over.
There are two kinds of Star Trek fans: those who love Lwaxana Troi and those who are wrong.
She was married to Gene Robbenberry after all… as far as I know she is in more shows than anyone else! From the very first episode (nurse Chapel) to TNG/DS9 (Lwaxana) as well as being the voice of the computer for many shows!
Even before that, she was the female Number One in the Star Trek Pilot episode.
What? Where does one find this mythical episode?
Practically speaking, you can just watch “The Menagerie”, which clip-shows most of the important stuff, but I believe Paramount+ also has the full pilot “The Cage”.
I watched it on Netflix just the other day. I’m not in the US though, so YMMV.
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lol Let it be known I have nothing against Majel Barrett. I immensely appreciate the endless work she put into keeping Trek going over the years, I love that her computer voice is omnipresent, I dig her as Nurse Chapel, and I think she would’ve been great as #1 on TOS, had she continued the role. Personally, I just think the writers pushed the earlier Lwaxana character too far into purposefully annoying territory, and without enough redeeming qualities to balance it out. She embodied some highly dislikable characteristics – a narcissistic sense of entitlement, being rudely dismissive, ignoring boundaries and being seemingly oblivious to others’ feelings – which never made sense to me, her being a telepath. Either she’s a Betazoid lacking in telepathy, or she’s well aware her impositions and advances are unwanted and make people uncomfortable, but doesn’t care and proceeds anyway. But any blame, I put solely on the writers, not Majel. And I definitely softened to her when they started giving her some character development, later in TNG and esp in DS9 with the Odo plotline. The elevator scene completely won me over.