Posted on 01/26/2009 9:04:54 PM PST by thefactor
Ashes of "Star Trek" creator Gene Roddenberry and his actress wife will blast toward the far reaches of the cosmos in keeping with the show's famed opening line "Space, the final frontier."
Majel Roddenberry died in December, two months before her 77th birthday, and will posthumously fulfill a "dream of journeying through space with her husband," according to Celestis Inc, the US company behind the memorial flight.
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That movie looks great!
http://www.startrekmovie.com/
oh great. i can see what’s going to happen already. his ashes are going to be captured by the klingons and they are going to reverse engineer them and use some kind of hocus pocus alien stuff to bring him back to life, then they’re going to waterboard him.
i’m a TNG guy, but they’ll never do another movie with that cast. perhaps in the future they’ll do prequel stuff like this upcoming movie.
RIP, Majel. I wrote her an email ten years ago, when she was adviser for a Canadian syndicated sci fi show titled Earth Final Conflict, developed from an early Gene Roddenberry story. Told her what Star Trek meant to me in the 60s and that I was glad Gene had been born on our planet. She very graciously responded.
that sounds like more of a borg or romulan plan, not klingon. but i can see it.
Aren’t they a little late for this? I know they weren’t dead at the time but shouldn’t their ashes have been on the Voyager I or II? If they orbit the earth the ashes are reduced to nothing once it reenters the atmosphere. So much for the infinite journey.
Ashes to ashes and dust to space.
Bon voyage, Gene & Marj. Say hello to Scottie for me.
The view should be spectacular.
Write when you get a chance.
ad astra, baby!
jeez, whose collar is worse? gene’s or bones’?
Oh man, plot line for a new movie! Remember when Heinlein sent Lazarus Long back in time to fetch his mother Maureen?
Hold on Gene and Majel, we’ll be there to get you in a thousand years or so...
Unmentioned so far is that she played Nurse Chapel in the original Star Trek. She had many cameos in subsequent versions.
Lovely lady. Gene was a lucky guy.
I believe she played councellor Deana Troi’s mother on TNG as well. That was quite a bit more than a cameo as she was really a member of the extended cast. There were several episodes of TNG that centered on her.
Am I nuts or didn’t I see a story a while back where his ashes were already taking the big Warp? Are they traveling in separate starships on their journey?
Your not nutts.. Genes ashes have already been shot into space..
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