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[–] theodewere@kbin.social 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

i love that Roddenberry just created this character for his wife, so she could have the perfect role for her amazing personality.. so of course she's an awesome character.. i mean that's REAL love baby..

[–] JudahBenHur@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I read that initial audiences thought she was mouthy and shouldnt try to act like a man.. we've come a little ways

[–] theodewere@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

somebody's talking shit, and you're repeating it

[–] JudahBenHur@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

Sure. That someone is William Shatner: (From Wikipedia) William Shatner corroborated this in Star Trek Memories, and added that female viewers at test screenings hated the character as well.[11] Shatner noted that female viewers felt she was "pushy" and "annoying" and also thought that "Number One shouldn't be trying so hard to fit in with the men."[12]

[–] lemillionsocks@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago

It really is kind of neat that she wound up becoming such an essential part of star trek.

She wasn’t his wife then, but ‘other woman number one.’ Sadly.

Nichelle Nichols was ‘other woman number two’ in the early days of production of TOS. Her reason for telling Martin Luther King she wanted to quit was because she didn’t want to be ‘the other woman to the other woman.’

Roddenberry was more than willing to change gender stereotypes, but let’s not romanticize his relationships.

[–] Bucket_of_Truth@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

She recorded a bunch of phonetic sounds so that her voice could be used in future iterations of Star Trek. Google bought her voice to use as the voice for Google Assistant (ok google), but they never implemented it.

[–] eva_sieve@startrek.website 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Y'know the retroactively craziest role that never gets mentioned here is that Majel Barret voiced Spock's mother Amanda Grayson in TAS.

Just dropping that for the benefit of the people making the Chapel==Una==Computer jokes.

[–] echo@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wasn't pretty much every character outside the main cast voiced by James Doohan, Majel Barrett, or Nichelle Nichols?

Hell. Doohan invented the Klingon language for TMP.

[–] lemillionsocks@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Hmmm being his grandma and former lover is quite the flexibility.

[–] GnothiSeauton@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] linuxgator@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah. Odo was definitely on her bucket list.

[–] Magnetar@feddit.de 10 points 1 year ago

Heh, bucket.

[–] Hyperreality@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I called, but no one answered the phone.

[–] Eonandahalf@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Can somebody please explain for the slow ones 😅

[–] Haus@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

sad spock face

[–] Holodeck_Moriarty@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

And Roddenberry.