Can you see Spiner as Questor?

Oooooooooo here is something fun! From Trek Movie Report comes some interesting news from the Roddenberry / Star Trek camp. Remember last week I reported that the Questor tapes were going to be remade? Well guess who Rod Roddenberry wants to star in the new movie? Brent (Data) Spiner! Yeah! Does that work or what?!!!

Now before you get yourself in a bunch, Spiner (now 61) has not expressed ANY interest in the role and Roddenberry admits that director Tim Minear "may be looking in a different direction".

Be interesting to see how this plays out though. For complete article, go to TrekMovie.com

Majel & Gene in space forever

IO9 is listing an article reporting that Majel's ashes will join her husband Gene Roddenberry ashes in space aboard a Celestis Inc rocket. A launch date has not been set as of yet. I am wondering if they are still trying to figure out what happened when Celestis tried to launch James "Scotty" Doohan's ashes into orbit last year, yes the operative word here is tried.

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RIP: Majel Barrett Roddenberry

The first lady of Star Trek has teleported away.

Majel Barrett Roddenberry, the most ubiquitous actor in Star Trek, died today at age 76. The wife of Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, she also provided the computer voices on every version of Trek. And she played three pivotal characters: Number One in the pilot, Nurse Chapel in the original series, and Lwaxana Troi in TNG and DS9. Majel recently completed reprising her role as the voice of the USS Enterprise for J.J. Abrams’ new Star Trek film.

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