Ashes of "Star Trek" creator and wife rocketing to deep space

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[thefactor]

God speed. Can't wait for the new flick.

[Prole]

Yeah, me too!

That movie looks great!

http://www.startrekmovie.com/

[GodfearingTexan]

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.

[thefactor]

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.

[stylin19a]

shudda put ‘em in a hologram and they cudda lived forever...

[Ciexyz]

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.

[thefactor]

that sounds like more of a borg or romulan plan, not klingon. but i can see it.

[Blue Highway]

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.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Ashes to ashes and dust to space.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Bon voyage, Gene & Marj. Say hello to Scottie for me.

The view should be spectacular.

Write when you get a chance.

[NonValueAdded]

ad astra, baby!

[JoeProBono]

[thefactor]

jeez, whose collar is worse? gene’s or bones’?

[bigbob]

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...

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

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.

[DCBurgess58]

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.

[Gaffer]

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?

[Kitanis]

Your not nutts.. Genes ashes have already been shot into space..

[TalonDJ]

I wrote her an email ten years ago

I met her a couple times at Star Trek cons. She was a very nice lady. A lot like her character as Troy's mom actually. Just super friendly and outgoing.

[TalonDJ]

I believe she played councellor Deana Troi’s mother on TNG as well.

As well as being the first officer inthe original pilot eposide and the voice of the computer in every Trek until well into DS9 and Voyager. I don't know when she stopped doing the voice bit.