Majel Barrett Roddenberry became one of the most consistent parts of Star Trek's golden age, voicing the ship's computer and starring as Lwaxana Troi in The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine.

Technically speaking, the first Orion to appear in Star Trek was Marta in Whom Gods Destroy. Vina, as "Orion slave girl" was a Talosian illusion in The Cage, and doubly so in The Menagerie, Part II.

Rod Roddenberry celebrated a birthday as a child with a “Star Wars” cake, ordered by his dad, Gene Roddenberry, the creator of “Star Trek,” and his mother, Majel Barrett, an iconic “Star ...