But he knew people and he was head writer for Have Gun Will Travel, and if you took those early Star Treks that we did and put us in a western wardrobe and put us on wagon train going west, we can say the same lines.
Censorship was so bad in those days, you couldn't talk about war, black-white situation, you couldn't even talk about mother love.
I don't think we're wasting people in space.
I got to send a little vial of Gene's ashes up - I forget what mission it was, but Colonel Wetherby was the one who took them up as a piece of his personal property.
I want to build a Gene Roddenberry Memorial Library of science and modern fiction.
I'm going to take over on the Techno Comics so I'm going to be dealing in the children's merchandising type department. But that's just setting it up and having somebody run it.
Man must be in space - that is what we are destined for. There is nothing else that we can do.
So we all got basically what we wanted, and as far as the women are concerned, he figured that 30 good women could handle a crew of 300 anyway. So that's how we ended up with our crew.
The best way in the world to advertise is to get somebody else to run around with the name of your product on their person or showing it around somewhere and not only that but they're paying for it.
Then, all of a sudden, here I am in the Press Room in the White House and walking in with the guards, who handed me three little pieces of paper asking me to send pictures to the guards at the White House.
They wanted a television show that had to do with science fiction and Gene didn't know anything about science fiction.
We took Frank Grosh and painted him half-black and half-white and his adversary was half-white and half-black and put the two of them at each other and it got through the censors.
We're having the first computer-generated comic strip in the United States.
When we started out in '64, um, I was playing Number One, which was a woman second in command of a star ship.
You can take any one of our stories that we use right now, put western clothes on us, stick us out in the west and they'll work just as well - any single one of them - because they're stories about people, they're stories about things.
You go through at least the first two years of Star Trek and you find some amazing stuff. Everything that was going on Gene put into the series. He just put strange costumes on the actors and painted them funny colours and left the same situation in.
You put funny people in funny costumes and paint them green and we could talk about anything we wanted to, because that was the only thing that fascinated Gene about this particular genre.
You would be so shocked and so surprised at the people who are our fans and are really, basically hard core fans. I'm talking about scientists.
Ambition it is the last infirmity of noble minds.
Every man who is high up likes to think he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that. It's our only joke. Every woman knows that.
Every time a child says I don't believe in fairies there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.
His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants' hall.
It's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it, you don't need to have anything else; and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have.
That is ever the way. Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.
We are all failures at least, all the best of us are.
You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip.
True patriots all; for be it understood, We left our country for our country's good.
Outside the Star Trek universe, she appeared in A Guide to the Married Man with Walter Matthau, Westworld with Yul Brynner, and The Domino Principle with Gene Hackman, but her roles in such films were always minor.
Some of her hobbies include golf, gold working, gourmet cooking and gem cutting.
Majel admits that Lwaxana Troi's personality was derived a great deal from her own.
Majel began pursuing her interest in acting at the age of 10 when she enrolled in a acting workshop.
Majel's birthday falls under the Year of the Monkey.
Majel has been known to admitt hat she realizes that a lot of fans are upset by inconsistency in sci-fi storylines, and tries to correct them in her series.
To play "Nurse Chapel," Majel bleached her hair blonde to give a different look from "Number One" in the pilot.
Majel supplied her voice for the "Computer Voice" on the Star Trek Omnipedia software released in 1995.
Majel is one of only 32 actors or actresses to have starred in both the original Star Trek (1966) (up to and including Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country) and then in one of the spin offs.
Majel has only been married once, it was to Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry from December 29, 1969 until his death on October 24, 1991.
Majel is 5' 9" (1.75 m) tall.
Majel has appeared/supplied voiceovers in five Star Trek spinoffs.
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