Fantastic interview, love Majel. Learned so much more about her and saw some photos I have never seen before. She is my favorite star trek actor, super talented. Thanks for posting this.
Ya’ll know that the Chapel character was created so Gene could give his girlfriend a paycheck now and then right? She was never meant to be anything more than the nurse who hands McCoy his tricorder or annoys Spock with her school girl crush.
As good as Walter Koenig played Chekov, the character was really generic. Not his fault. The character was written that way. I think Koenig really shines as Psi-Corp agent Alfred Bester on Babylon 5. A so much more nuanced and meaty role. Bester is a truly evil man but he does show his humanity sometimes. Even when he could have destroyed Mr. Garibaldi he chose to be “magnanimous”. Lol.
Oddly enough I've had this vague childhood memory of watching a TV program where God is a Puerto Rican janitor. When Walter mentioned the play "Steambath" I suddenly realized THAT was what I was trying to follow on the local PBS station when I was about 11 years old. I couldn't understand it but I was intrigued that God was a Puerto Rican janitor. (The play was apparently rewritten for TV and aired by a limited number of PBS channels.)
I always feel so sad, as DeForest WAS THE FIRST OF THE CREW TO PASS INTO THE GREAT UNKONWN! My ABSOLUTELY favourite scene is in The Final Frontier, wher Kirk, Spock & Mcoy are sitting round the campfire! It slays me EVERY TIME! I LIKED HIM BETTER BEFORE HE DIED!
I met James briefly inside a Scottish pub in San Francisco. He was completely inebriated, while shouting Scottish obscenities at the crowd, using his characteristic "Scotty" accent from Star Trek. Every time he did so, enthusiastic onlookers cheered him on and bought him more rounds, thus encouraging the misbehavior. I was so surprised to see this and laughed so hard that I choked on my beer and spilled it everywhere. He chuckled and quickly bought me another. As he did so, he looked me square in the eye and said, "Laddie, you've committed a very serious offense against the Federation and must make amends! Beertender, bring this man another!" He was carrying a communicator prop with him, and kept yelling into it that the warp engines were about to explode and that the captain needed to reduce power, etc. Word traveled fast and the bar quickly became overran with enthusiastic fans, anxious to buy the legend another shot. I stepped outside to escape the crowd and a few moments later, James staggered out onto the curb and shouted into his communicator for a taxi. There were already several taxis waiting at the chance to drive the celebrity... and off he went. He was on the news the next day with a fireman providing a brief statement. Several fans had apparently joined him at his hotel and they continued the debauchery late into the evening. At some point, James realized that his communicator had stopped communicating with Captain Kirk. Then someone concocted a brilliant plan to signal the Enterprise (that lay in geosynchronous orbit around the earth) so they could all be beamed aboard for more booze. So they lit a bonfire atop the hotel roof to gain the attention of Spock's sensors! There was no mention of any arrests or charges being made, so Id assume they were all allowed to walk away "Scott-free" for the next bar. My admiration for the man has grown to new heights and we are all lucky to have enjoyed in his drunken humor.
I miss seeing Mr. Scott on T.V. on the original Star Trek Series I remember him doing one episode on the Next Generation series I just wish I could have meet him in person and say thanks for everything that you did on the old Star Ship Enterprise
I got a lot of my Star Trek memorabilia from Gene Roddenberry’s Lincoln Enterprises. Stationary, scripts, film clips, uniform badges, Spock’s Vulcan IDIC, to name a few.
I find it interesting that Takei hates Shatner so much but Shatner insists that he has no idea of whatever he did that could have caused this. It just may be visceral - a chemical reaction. Happens all the time - no rhyme or reason for hate sometimes.
Im glad long form talks like this still exist, paramount might be able to AI her voice and re-use her in trek. give her the immortality in the medium that she deserves
I can't help, but feel like her every sentence carries the message, "I'm so special, you can't even imagine" and honestly, it's quite annoying to listen to her.. I know she has achieved many important things, but from her words I can only hear conceited pride and pointing to herself as something otherworldly, extremely special and one of a kind.. I don't want to diminish her achievements, but there were people who achieved more and did not have this attitude..
Captain we’re already doin warp factor 9. I canna get more power out of the matter , anti matter engines without riskin a temporal harmonic fracture of the dilithium crystals and the pressure on the hull of the ship is already at 105% after running through that stellst nebula cluster.
What a great man. Its sad we have given our home land away to people who don't represent our values and customs. Soon on one will care about the star trek generation.
Not only very beautiful, very sexy, intelligent, funny, quick-witted, thoughtful and a very good actress she back in the 1970s when many young white guys like me in the UK, made us totally forget she was black and we all fancied her like mad, would have love to have had her as a girlfriend, a friend, work with or even been our boss, which n the 1970s very few young white guys would have felt about any black women in real life they came across. The wise, sensible and decent effect she had on racial equality which Star Trek very much represented back then, I would say is up there with Martin Luther King in terms of changing traditional racist thinking which I grew up with from my parents. But what has happened now after BLM and the ridiculous false representation in films and TV of historical figures i.e. Jane Boleyn and unrealistic representation of black and white couples in adverts plus the 'fear' of cancel culture by being accused of being a racist has undone all the hard work she did, because NOW having all my life primarily not been racist, I now find where I live, if I see a black person I NOW notice them very much and feel very wary of them. That is not good at all and is totally opposite to Nichelle Nicholls would have wanted and achieved.
Uncle George is beloved. In addition to Star Trek, he has a body of works that includes a brutally honest and heart stopping episode of Twilight Zone! It is superb. Thanks Uncle George!
James Doohan appears to be a very nice human being!It’s nice to know that he liked science 🧫 fiction conventions!I used to go to these conventions when they had a Star ⭐️ Trek group at the Science 🧪 Center in Des Moines,Iowa.Since 1990,maybe,1992,I quit going to these conventions,because,I didn’t:’fit in.”But,it doesn’t mean I don’t dislike Star Trek!The original series is still:a marvelous show!😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊
When I see interviews with De Forest Kelly it seems to me that he was a really fantastic human being . I’m fan of Star Trek since the original series and I think one of the reasons for the success was the cast , including De Forest Kelly. Greetings from a Brazilian physician.🇧🇷🇺🇸
Going Sideways. George Carlin. Atheist. If there were an all knowing all seeing omniscient God, This woman would NOT have been taken from us so soon. What a load of crap. Chime in Theists.
For everyone. Majel was the only solid touchpoint in all of Star Trek. She was in every single one from beginning to end. From the original #1 Exec... to Nurse to every computer voice on every Star Trek show to Luoxana. TV & Movies. An incredible woman who carried on Genes legacy. Always. Literally in every single Star Trek ever. Yes. 9, TNG, DS9. Voyager, Enterrise. All of them. And all movies. LIsten. What a Goddess.
This is the first time I’m seeing this. Enjoying it so much. Loved Star Trek. Remember Mr Kelly in many movies westerns. Loved him. But what a great man. Very talented. You can tell he’s a wonderful human being. RIP
