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Majel Barrett Roddenberry played the recurring role of Nurse Christine Chapel throughout the three-year run of Star Trek.  She has appeared in person or in voice in most of the Star Trek universe; she played the recurring role of Ambassador Lwaxana Troi in Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.  She has also been the computer voice on most of the ships in the Star Trek universe, as well as the voice of the Companion (Metamorphosis).

Star Trek was the brainchild of Gene Roddenberry, a former World War II bomber pilot, commercial airline pilot for Pan Am, and Los Angeles motorcycle police officer.

Majel Barrett's Number One was dropped after the first pilot of Star Trek.  NBC refused to cast a woman as the second in command of a starship.

Grace Lee Whitney played Yeoman Rand for 13 episodes in the first season of Star Trek, although she actually appeared in only seven.  Her character was written out of Star Trek following a sexual assault on her by someone she will only call "The Executive".  The official story is that Yeoman Rand was becoming too close to Captain Kirk and didn't leave room for him to romance every female he met on his travels through space.

Joan Collins, who played Edith Keeler in The City on the Edge of Forever, was probably the most famous female guest on the original Star Trek series.

Denise Crosby starred as Lieutenant Natasha "Tasha" Yar, Chief of Security.  She left the series in the first season to pursue a film career.  Lieutenant Yar was killed in Skin of Evil by Armus, an evil oil slick creature.

The first Star Trek convention was held in New York in 1972.

Jennifer Ann Lien played Kes, an Ocampa, who joined the crew.   Kes left the USS Voyager when she evolved to a higher level of existence and became a danger to the ship and crew.

Lieutenant Uhura's last name was derived from uhuru, which means "freedom" in Swahili, her native tongue.  Her first name, Nyota, means "star" in Swahili.  "Star of Freedom."  She was called "The Lovely Lady" by Cyrano Jones, the Tribble salesman in The Trouble with Tribbles.

Nurse Christine Chapel gave up a promising career in bioresearch to join the crew of a starship.

Gene Roddenberry told network and studio executives after the first pilot that "I'm going to make a change on the bridge, in the command crew.  It's not a significant change.  I just want to add a little color."   They thought he was referring to the wardrobe, and tried to fire Nichelle Nichols when they found out the "color" was her skin, not the wardrobe.

Star Trek: The Next Generation was the most highly-rated syndicated series of all time.

Hikaru Sulu became Captain of the USS Excelsior in 2270 and personally requested Lieutenant Commander Janice Rand to be assigned as the ship's Communications/Operations Officer, and third in command (Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country).

The Klingons are now allies of the Federation, if not fast friends, as predicted by the Organians in Star Trek; Errand of Mercy.

Doctor Beverly Crusher was born on 13 October 2324, in Copernicus City, Luna (Earth's moon).  Beverly was an accomplished dancer, having won a dance contest in St Louis.  This earned her the nickname, The Dancing Doctor, which she disliked.

Lieutenant Commander Deanna Troi assumed command of the USS Enterprise in 2368 as the senior officer present on the bridge when the ship collided with two quantum filaments and cut the bridge off from the rest of the ship (Disaster).

The federation's ultimate goal is to prepare Bajor for federation membership.

Gates McFadden was cast as Doctor Beverly Crusher on Star Trek: The Next Generation.  She did not seek the role and originally turned it down because of another professional commitment.  Paramount pursued her because Gene Roddenberry had decided from her audition that she was perfect for the role.

The USS Vouyager is the first starship that can actually land on and take off from the surface of a planet.  It has a new warp drive that does not damage the space-time continuum.

Bajoran custom places the family name first.  She is Ensign Ro, not Ensign Laren, a fact that she is quick to point out to Captain Picard and Commander Riker in her first meeting with them (Ensign Ro).   Michelle Forbes played Ensign Ro Laren.

Kira Nerys, a Major in the Bajoran militia, was assigned by the Bajoran Provisional Government to be second in command of the Cardassian space station in orbit after Commander Sisko asked for a Bajoran First Officer in order to balance out Bajoran and Federation interests.  Her exemplary performance earned her promotion to Colonel.

Terry Farrell played Lieutenant Commander Jadzia Dax, the Science Officer on Deep Space Nine.

Nicole deBoer likes to travel in her free time.   She has been known to drive to Los Angeles from Toronto when the mood strikes her.

Ro Laren was raised in Bajoran refugee camps.  She was forced to watch her father's brutal torture and murder by Cardassian soldiers when she was seven years old.

Captain Janeway, referring to B'Elanna Torres, said, "She is tough knowledgeable, and independent, and sometimes seems an echo of myself at her age."

Curzon Dax originally rejected Jadzia as a host candidate (Playing God) because he was in love with her (Facets).

Lieutenant Ezri  Dax is a counselor by training, currently assigned to Deep Space Nine.  She appeared at Captain Sisko's father's restaurant on Earth at the end of the first episode of the seventh season (Image in the Sand).

Kate Mulgrew has seven brothers and sisters.  She was born the second oldest child and oldest daughter in a family of eight children.

Deanna Troi lost her father, whom she adored, when she was seven years old.  He had often read stories of Earth's ancient American West to her; stories she still missed as an adult (A Fistful of Datas).

Lieutenant B'Elanna Torres, the daughter of a human father and a Klingon mother, is Chief Engineer on the USS Voyager.

Annika Hansen was the young daughter of two Federation scientists who were stationed on the USS Raven when it was attacked and assimilated by the Borg (Raven).  Annika became Seven of Nine, Tertiary Adjunct of Uni-Matrix Zero One.

Ezri Dax is the ninth and current host of the Dax symbiont.  Previous hosts have included four males and four females.

Marina Sirtis says, "My favorite episode is Face of the Enemy, because it was not a "girlie" episode.   Any one of the crew could have been transformed into a Romulan.  Troi was chosen because she was an empath, not because she was female."

Ensign Ro Laren was originally intended to cross over to Star Trek: Deep Space Nine from Star Trek: The Next Generation, but Michelle Forbes left the series and declined a major role on the new Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, in order to pursue various film projects.

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