R.I.P. Nurse Chapel

[Bright Moments]

this one got by me!

Nurse Chapel

[ValerieB]

i almost went to work for her years ago as her personal assistant. she was quite a business woman, that's for certain.

[BruceH]

The linked obit strangely doesn't really make it clear that Barrett did the voice of the Enterprise computer in the original series as well as TNG and other spinoffs.

I loved her in that first pilot, where she played the first officer to Jeffrey Hunter's Captain Pike. Her character, though human, was intellectual and unemotional, qualities that Spock's character would take on when he became the first officer in the second pilot. In the first pilot, Spock was still played by Nimoy, still a Vulcan, but was third-in-command at most, and just as emotional as any human (he even smiles!)

[Guy Berger]

I was not a fan of the Lwaxana Troi character - annoying and unfunny.

Guy

[BruceH]

I was not a fan of the Lwaxana Troi character - annoying and unfunny.

Guy

You're right on target there. I'd rather forget that character. The whole raison d'etre behind Lwaxana was that she was SUPPOSED to be just SO annoying...har, har. Yeah, I get it, but she wasn't annoying/funny but annoying/tiresome.

I'd rather remember the original Number One.

[Guy Berger]

I was not a fan of the Lwaxana Troi character - annoying and unfunny.

Guy

You're right on target there. I'd rather forget that character. The whole raison d'etre behind Lwaxana was that she was SUPPOSED to be just SO annoying...har, har. Yeah, I get it, but she wasn't annoying/funny but annoying/tiresome.

And the weird part is that they kept bringing her back OVER and OVER... she even had 3 guest appearances on DS9. Did the character really have that much of a following?

I recently rewatched an episode with both her and Alexander Rozhenko. It was a weak episode, but not quite the trainwreck one might expect given that combination.

Guy

[robviti]

i can think of an episode or two in which her presence was welcome.

[Jim Alfredson]

I can't believe ST:TNG started in 1987. I remember when it started, my dad was so excited, he taped every single episode. He was a big sci-fi / Star Trek nut, though he didn't like DS9 or Enterprise.

My wife belittles me if I watch old re-runs, so I just do so when she's gone to bed.

[Alexander]

I was a big Trekker once upon a time. Loved the original series and TNG, but DS9 was my favorite. I loved the political intrigue. Never liked Voyager (except for Tim Russ as Tuvok) and was done with Trek by the time Enterprise came about (but the few episodes I have seen have done nothing for me).

Nevertheless, Majel Barrett was an institution on that show in most of its incarnations, even moreso than her late husband. She will be missed. RIP.

[BruceH]

I was not a fan of the Lwaxana Troi character - annoying and unfunny.

Guy

You're right on target there. I'd rather forget that character. The whole raison d'etre behind Lwaxana was that she was SUPPOSED to be just SO annoying...har, har. Yeah, I get it, but she wasn't annoying/funny but annoying/tiresome.

And the weird part is that they kept bringing her back OVER and OVER... she even had 3 guest appearances on DS9. Did the character really have that much of a following?

I recently rewatched an episode with both her and Alexander Rozhenko. It was a weak episode, but not quite the trainwreck one might expect given that combination.

Guy

Oy vey---the DS9 appearances were quite uncalled for, and something I'd also rather forget.

Alexander, however....there was a character who wasn't all bad. He could be either surprisingly good or a tad tiresome, depending on the episode, but on balance, I'd have to say one Hell of a lot better than Wesley.

[BruceH]

I was a big Trekker once upon a time. Loved the original series and TNG, but DS9 was my favorite. I loved the political intrigue. Never liked Voyager (except for Tim Russ as Tuvok) and was done with Trek by the time Enterprise came about (but the few episodes I have seen have done nothing for me).

Nevertheless, Majel Barrett was an institution on that show in most of its incarnations, even moreso than her late husband. She will be missed. RIP.

DS9 ran hot and cold for me, but I really started to check out of the whole Trek thing just a little into Voyager's run. That show just never did much for me, but Enterprise looked even worse. I never even gave it a chance.

But Majel Barrett was there, in a sense, from before the beginning. Before Bones, before Kirk, before the unemotional Spock, there was Number One. RIP