Majel Barrett has died.
My favorite of all her roles—and I’m sure there will be many of you out there utterly horrified by this—was Lwaxana Troi. The intergalactic Jewish mother—what’s not to love?
The Catmage Chronicles
Andy thought he was going crazy when a talking cat showed up at his front door. He couldn’t have been more wrong.Goldeneyes is a Catmage – a cat with human intelligence and magical abilities. Andy is an eighth grader who is smart, impulsive, and trying to avoid the school bully at all costs. A prophecy threw them together. There’s just one problem: Goldeneyes can’t stand humans.The Catmage world is heading toward war. Goldeneyes and Andy must try to stop the enemy from getting stronger. And they must save a powerful Catmage who’s been kidnapped. For Goldeneyes, it’s personal. That Catmage is her grandmother.Andy and Goldeneyes must try to put aside their differences. If they can’t, the enemy will soon be too powerful to defeat…
+1 :)
Lwaxana is one of the finest Jewish moms on TV ever…ahhh. Mrs. Roddenberry will be missed.
“She’s dead, Jim.”
Alas.
Star Trek has been the anti-Bewitched of 60’s shows. Except for the actress who played Tabitha, every single star of Bewitched (including both Darrens) died at young ages. I think that Agnes Moorehead might have lived to the oldest age.
However Star Trek stars have had remarkable longevity. James Doohan and DeForest Kelley lived into their 80’s. Majel Barrett Roddenberry lived to 75.
Uh… while 62 isn’t very old, it isn’t all that young, either. Elizabeth Montgomery was felled by cancer. Dick Sargent was 64. Dick York was 66. I think you’re either thinking of another show, or are falling for an urban legend.
Snopes can cure you of that.