I was today years old when it occurred to me that it took three different actresses in Strange New Worlds to play all of Majel Barrett-Roddenberry's roles.
I don't condone AI attempting to "steal" voices of passed actors/actresses, but I'd love to have my car navigation using her voice (either as the computer OR as Lwaxana)
i remember you used to be able to download voice packs for one of the common map apps (maybe Waze?) but instead of saying the road names it just gave simple commands like turn left and turn right. i betcha you could rip all of those straight from episodes without needing to synthesize anything new
I'd love to have the voice of Data giving me navigation directions and LaForge interrupting on a regular basis feeding me endless technobabble about everything that was wrong with my vehicle while the 'red alert' siren plays in the background
The computer voice would be fine, but i feel Lwaxana would be rambling about her 3rd husband or something instead of giving directions
How in the hell did I just now find out Lwaxana Troi was played by Genes wife!
I was even more surprised when I found out Lwaxana and the enterprise computer had the same actress.
Majel was an amazing actress and gorgeous woman.
Agreed on both. And I'm sorry she wasn't in more.
When you are just that good... :-)
And if they ever decide to add M'Ress, it will be four.
I just watched TOS S2E1 the other day, and I was surprised by how much the new Chapel actually looks like her. They cast her really well. Before, I'd really only seen Barrett as Lwaxana.
Couple more years and we can celebrate her centennial.
This isn't a criticism of Majel Barrett, but it didn't "take" 3 actresses to play her roles, those were just hiring decisions.
Do you really think they would have decided to hire one actor for all three roles? And yeah, it kind of is a criticism because the point is she had that much range as an actress, playing multiple iconic characters which people have no problem keeping separate in their minds rather despite all being played by one person.
It wouldn't have to take a dozen actors to replace Jeffrey Combs either... but good luck finding one actor to replace all of his roles.
Do I really think what? No I don't, I didn't say that,. and the question doesn't even make sense.
Let's look at a Spock - to my knowledge 3 actors have played adult Spock in movies and TV shows and at least two have played him in games. Clearly this doesn't reflect on Leonard Nimoy's acting ability in any way, Casting choices are based on all kinds of factors. I know some people think anyone who isn't jumping up and down waving pompoms is the enemy, which is why I prefaced my comment by saying it wasn't meant as a criticism of Majel Roddenberry. If you can't accept that as honest... whatever dude.