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Ashes Of Star Trek Stars To Launch On Vulcan Rocket

The Verge reports: The ashes of Nichelle Nichols, the actress who played Lieutenant Nyota Uhura in the original Star Trek, will get sent into deep space on a rocket that memorializes her and several other Star Trek veterans. Nichols’ son, Kyle Johnson, donated her ashes after she died in July at age 89. Nichols’ ashes will head to space on …

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Majel Barrett-Roddenberry, 76

Majel Barrett-Roddenberry, widow of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, actress, and voice of the Enterprise’s computer (“Working”), has died of leukemia at age 76. Since the death of Gene Roddenberry, who created “Star Trek,” Majel Berrett was recognized as the franchise’s “first lady.” In the years after he died in 1991, she developed several of his unfinished ideas into new …

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