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In this interview, conducted in 1995 with a Suite101 reporter, Barrett-Roddenberry reflected on her husband's legacy (Gene Roddenberry died in 1991 at age 70) as well as its future.
She cut her hair and bleached, then waited in Roddenberry's office for him to come in. He passed by her twice, even spoke to her once, before finally recognizing her. She told him [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], "If I can fool you, I can fool the network."
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The network (NBC) also deflated Roddenberry's concept of gender equality, Barrett-Roddenberry said. He had originally wanted the crew to be half male and half female. Instead, the female complement was reduced to about 10 percent.
"But that was okay, because Gene figured 30 good women could handle a crew of 300," she said with a laugh.
"I really wanted to be a part of Star Trek, and when this one script ("What Are Little Girls Made Of?," which introduced the Chapel character) came in, I knew it was my opportunity," she said.
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Star Trek lasted three seasons on NBC. Barrett later contributed her voice to an animated Trek series which ran on Saturday mornings in the early 1970s. She appeared as Chapel in two of the Star Trek films in the 1980s, including her favorite of the series, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. Her voice was featured in every incarnation, as she supplied the vocals for the ship's computer.
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"They (the network executives) liked the idea and wanted to see another pilot [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], but they wanted some changes. First, they wanted Gene to get rid of the woman second in command, because they said no one would believe a woman in that position. And second, get rid of the pointy-eared 'Spock' character because he was too devilish and would upset women viewers," she said.
With a bleached-blond hairstyle [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Barrett-Roddenberry rejoined the cast as Nurse Christine Chapel during the entire run of the series, which now starred William Shatner as Capt. James T. Kirk.
"As much as he knew it was going to break my heart, Gene desperately wanted to keep the Spock character. He thought he could keep some things he wanted if he gave in to some of their requests," Barrett-Roddenberry said. "So he decided to marry the woman and keep Spock on the show. Besides, Leonard (Nimoy, who played Spock) wouldn't have had it the other way around."
Actress Majel Barrett, who would not marry Roddenberry until after the show's cancellation in 1969, was cast as the Starship Enterprise's female first officer, "Number One," in the original 1964 pilot episode, which starred Jeffrey Hunter as Capt. Christopher Pike. The role was written for her, and she was the first actor cast, she said. Unfortunately, the network thought the pilot was "too cerebral for those slobs in TV-Land," she said.
Majel Barrett-Roddenberry is perhaps best known to fans of the Star Trek television and movie series. Not only was she married to the late Gene Roddenberry, who created Trek in the 1960s, but she was personally involved with every incarnation of the show as an actress&ndash;up to an including the recent blockbuster reboot by J.J. Abrams.
Barrett-Roddenberry died in December 2008 at age 76, just two weeks after completing voice work for the 2009 Star Trek relaunch movie.