# RIP Nurse Chapel, Lwaxana Troi, Computer Voice **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 18, 2008, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-nurse-chapel-lwaxana-troi-computer-voice/477812 "2008-12-18T21:36:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2008, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-nurse-chapel-lwaxana-troi-computer-voice/477812/21 "2008-12-18T22:48:27Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > She did the computer voice **too?** Hm. Never knew that. > > RIP, Most Excellent Consort of the Great Bird! I don’t remember how long ago this was and it may no longer be true but at that time, due to her voice work as the computer, she had “appeared” in every episode of all four series and all the films. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2008, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-nurse-chapel-lwaxana-troi-computer-voice/477812/22 "2008-12-18T22:48:48Z")
When I was a kid, I used to think the Bell Telephone operator voice was her too, but I guess it was Jane Barbe. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2008, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-nurse-chapel-lwaxana-troi-computer-voice/477812/23 "2008-12-18T22:54:48Z")
> [@DSYoungEsq](#): > > My favorite line of hers was when the Enterprise computer has been “upgraded” to give it personality and she replies to Kirk’s memorandum about scrapping the upgrade with, “Computed.” There is genuine hurt in her voice as she says it. Steals the scene, and does it without even being seen! Mine was her doing the voice of Stewie’s computer in one episode of _Family Guy_. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2008, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-nurse-chapel-lwaxana-troi-computer-voice/477812/24 "2008-12-18T22:59:17Z")
> [@runner pat](#): > > I don’t remember how long ago this was and it may no longer be true but at that time, due to her voice work as the computer, she had “appeared” in every episode of all four series and all the films. I think that’s only true if you consider her to be “playing” the ship itself. There are quite a few episodes where we don’t hear the computer speak. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2008, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-nurse-chapel-lwaxana-troi-computer-voice/477812/25 "2008-12-18T23:04:30Z")
Aww, crappity. ☹ One by one they’re all off where… pretty much every man has gone before, or will. Roddenberry, Kelley, Doohan, now Barrett. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2008, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-nurse-chapel-lwaxana-troi-computer-voice/477812/26 "2008-12-18T23:12:34Z")
Oddly enough, the memory of her voice acting which most stands out for me is from “Best of Both Worlds, Part II” after the recap, with her saying “And now… the conclusion.” Hey, it was a great episode 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2008, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-nurse-chapel-lwaxana-troi-computer-voice/477812/27 "2008-12-18T23:16:58Z")
One by one, the greatest Starfleet crew vanishes. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2008, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-nurse-chapel-lwaxana-troi-computer-voice/477812/28 "2008-12-18T23:18:07Z")
If I am not mistaken she was the only person to “appear” in every Trek incarnation. ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2008, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-nurse-chapel-lwaxana-troi-computer-voice/477812/29 "2008-12-18T23:32:24Z")
> [@Icerigger](#): > > If I am not mistaken she was the only person to “appear” in every Trek incarnation. I think you’re right. She’s certainly the only person to play the _same character_ in every incarnation. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2008, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-nurse-chapel-lwaxana-troi-computer-voice/477812/30 "2008-12-18T23:40:41Z")
She did a lot of voice work in the Star Trek animated series, as well, particularly the Cattian crewmember, M’ress, and Nurse Chapel. ---
**Author:** ![Terrifel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@Terrifel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrifel)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2008, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-nurse-chapel-lwaxana-troi-computer-voice/477812/31 "2008-12-18T23:53:04Z")
Peace and farewell, ever-bright and hopeful vision. ---
**Author:** ![Spurious\_George](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/94ad74/32.png) [@Spurious\_George](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spurious_George)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-nurse-chapel-lwaxana-troi-computer-voice/477812/32 "2008-12-19T00:06:46Z")
Sniff. I hear her voice every day, as my computer starts up and shuts down. A great loss, and another reason to look forward to the new film, featuring her final performance. ---
**Author:** ![Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a8b319/32.png) [@Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spatial_Rift_47)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-nurse-chapel-lwaxana-troi-computer-voice/477812/33 "2008-12-19T00:18:46Z")
Damn. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-nurse-chapel-lwaxana-troi-computer-voice/477812/34 "2008-12-19T00:33:34Z")
Damn, it’s sad she’s gone. I hope she’s with Gene somewhere, despite Roddenberry’s beliefs. And yes, she was in all five series. Or at least her voice was. In the Enterprise two-parter, “In A Mirror, Darkly,” she provided the computer’s voice for the mirror universe’s U.S.S. Defiant, the Constitution-class vessel and sister ship to the Enterprise NCC-1701 which disappeared in Tholian space. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-nurse-chapel-lwaxana-troi-computer-voice/477812/35 "2008-12-19T00:41:17Z")
Recalling two verses from the Leslie Fish filk classic, [_Banned from Argo:_](http://www.ovff.org/pegasus/songs/banned-from-argo.html) Our proper, cool First Officer was drugged with something green, And hauled into an alley, where he suffered things obscene. He sobered up in Sickbay and he’s none the worse for wear, Except he’s somehow taught the bridge computer how to swear. The Head Nurse disappeared awhile in the major Dope Bazaar, Buying an odd green potion “guaranteed to cause Pon-Farr.” She came home with no uniform and an oddly cheerful heart, And a painful way of walking-with her feet a yard apart. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-nurse-chapel-lwaxana-troi-computer-voice/477812/36 "2008-12-19T00:43:41Z")
> [@zev\_steinhardt](#): > > Personally, I thought that Number One (from The Cage) and Nurse Chapel were blah characters. Lwaxana, however, was a great character. She did a great job with her. > > Zev Steinhardt The former two were blah characters, I admit, but that was hardly her fault; it was the sexist assumptions of the writing (and the fact that Number One got, what, 5 minutes of screen time). I loved Lwaxana, though, and I am sorry to hear of her death. ---
**Author:** ![DeafAngelboy23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e5b9ba/32.png) [@DeafAngelboy23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeafAngelboy23)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-nurse-chapel-lwaxana-troi-computer-voice/477812/37 "2008-12-19T00:47:31Z")
“They will continue the voyages we have begun and journey to all the undiscovered countries boldy going where no man, where no one…has gone before.” ---
**Author:** ![kasuo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8c91f0/32.png) [@kasuo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kasuo)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-nurse-chapel-lwaxana-troi-computer-voice/477812/38 "2008-12-19T00:48:03Z")
Damn, sad to hear. I always got a kick out of her calling Worf as “Mister Woof.” ---
**Author:** ![TWDuke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e495f1/32.png) [@TWDuke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TWDuke)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-nurse-chapel-lwaxana-troi-computer-voice/477812/39 "2008-12-19T00:54:17Z")
I think Number One could have been a fascinating character (as well as something of a pop-culture milestone). As **Skald** points out, we never got a chance to know her. ---
**Author:** ![jkusters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/fbc32d/32.png) [@jkusters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jkusters)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-nurse-chapel-lwaxana-troi-computer-voice/477812/40 "2008-12-19T01:03:27Z")
I had the sincere pleasure of meeting and talking with Majel at several sci-fi cons in the greater California area. She was the sweetest lady, even to unimportant “gophers” like myself. I will miss her greatly. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-nurse-chapel-lwaxana-troi-computer-voice/477812.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-nurse-chapel-lwaxana-troi-computer-voice/477812.md?page=3)