The Enterprise computer....

[SalvorHardin]

Remind me...Has anything been said about it or who the voice will be ?

More importantly
Should it have a seductive female personality ?
A sexy voice, have a tendency to giggle and call Kirk Dear ?

Discuss

 

[Michael]

How 'bout Douglas Rain?

 

[SonicRanger]

My guess is that the computer won't talk at all during the movie.

 

[superstring01]

Remind me...Has anything been said about it or who the voice will be ?

More importantly
Should it have a seductive female personality ?
A sexy voice, have a tendency to giggle and call Kirk Dear ?

Discuss

They should use Sigourney Weaver weaver's voice, they way they did in Futurama when Bender fell in love with the Planet Express Ship.

~String

 

[Koinek]

Will it have a voice? That might be one of the things they "create" during the movie.

 

[CaptainWacky]

If the computer doesn't say "WORKING..." then I'm boycotting the movie and life.

 

[Franklin]

Who's to say? In 23rd century TOS the computer's voice was so robotic compared to the voice of HAL in 2001. It's comical to hear TOS computers speak today. If the computer speaks in the movie, I'd hope it has a realistic and conversational voice. Preferably feminine. Either that, or it sounds like Mickey Mouse. Either way.

 

[M'Sharak]

How about Zoe Saldana?

 

[Akiraprise]

Wasn't there some article mentioning Majel doing the voice of the computer again? I thought there was.

 

[Kemaiku]

As long as it doesn't sound like a bad voice synth or hum loudly while working I don't mind either way.

Since the Enterprise computers did speak, and in one episode very realistically (dear, lol) it is capable of near normal Human speech, they just seem to keep it speaking more robotically.

I see no problem with it speaking now and then.

 

[superstring01]

As long as it doesn't sound like a bad voice synth or hum loudly while working I don't mind either way.

Since the Enterprise computers did speak, and in one episode very realistically (dear, lol) it is capable of near normal Human speech, they just seem to keep it speaking more robotically.

I see no problem with it speaking now and then.

It'll be over two hundred years into the future. At our current rate of development, it better goddamned well be able to speak. In fact, it should have an AI if they wanted to really make it realistic.

~String

 

[Kemaiku]

As long as it doesn't sound like a bad voice synth or hum loudly while working I don't mind either way.

Since the Enterprise computers did speak, and in one episode very realistically (dear, lol) it is capable of near normal Human speech, they just seem to keep it speaking more robotically.

I see no problem with it speaking now and then.

It'll be over two hundred years into the future. At our current rate of development, it better goddamned well be able to speak. In fact, it should have an AI if they wanted to really make it realistic.

~String

As long as its not a middle aged balding man making sarcastic remarks and singing Opera its all good.

 

[superstring01]

As long as its not a middle aged balding man making sarcastic remarks and singing Opera its all good.

I think we're safe from that possibility.

~String

 

[Eric Cheung]

How about Judi Durand? She played the computer in a bunch of Trek games as well as the Cardassian computer on DS9.

 

[M'Sharak]

Wasn't there some article mentioning Majel doing the voice of the computer again? I thought there was.

I know the question's been raised here, and I remember someone saying something about the possibility of health issues preventing her from doing so, but she's got a credit for an upcoming voice gig in another film and no sign of one in Star Trek. Doesn't seem likely, somehow.

I did find this about a joint appearance by Quinto and Nimoy at VegasCon in August, at which someone asked about who would do the computer voice:

Regarding the Star Trek movie, Quinto took a question on the computer voice and would it be Majel Roddenberry. He said he didn’t know and that there would be "different voices" and that work was likely not done yet on it as it is something done in post production. He did speculate that JJ Abrams best friend Greg Grunberg might end up doing some voice. Grunberg appears in almost all of Abrams projects, but wasn’t available to shoot his cameo during principal photography.

 

[Kemaiku]

Different voices? I'm hoping they mean a different voice for each ship, station, the Romulan ship etc.

If not then great, the Enterprise isn't only getting a face lift, but multiple personality disorder.

 

[superstring01]

Different voices? I'm hoping they mean a different voice for each ship, station, the Romulan ship etc.

If not then great, the Enterprise isn't only getting a face lift, but multiple personality disorder.

I've always thought that multiple AI's on a ship would be best. An engineering AI. A medical AI. A command/ops AI.

~String

 

[Franklin]

I did find this about a joint appearance by Quinto and Nimoy at VegasCon in August, at which someone asked about who would do the computer voice:

Regarding the Star Trek movie, Quinto took a question on the computer voice and would it be Majel Roddenberry. He said he didn’t know and that there would be "different voices" and that work was likely not done yet on it as it is something done in post production. He did speculate that JJ Abrams best friend Greg Grunberg might end up doing some voice. Grunberg appears in almost all of Abrams projects, but wasn’t available to shoot his cameo during principal photography.

Hey! An inspiration! "Different voices." It could be like the celebrity callers on Frasier. Different celebs do the voice of the computers throughout the movie. Everyone from John Cleese to Jack Nicholson. From Judi Dench to Cheryl Crow. People would buy the DVD just to ID all the cameos. Disembodied voices are not always easy to identify at first.

 

[LaxScrutiny]

I think it would be hilarious if they just used HAL's voice and made no mention of any connection to anything else. Just let us sit there laughing/scratching our heads.

 

[M'Sharak]

I did find this about a joint appearance by Quinto and Nimoy at VegasCon in August, at which someone asked about who would do the computer voice:

Regarding the Star Trek movie, Quinto took a question on the computer voice and would it be Majel Roddenberry. He said he didn’t know and that there would be "different voices" and that work was likely not done yet on it as it is something done in post production. He did speculate that JJ Abrams best friend Greg Grunberg might end up doing some voice. Grunberg appears in almost all of Abrams projects, but wasn’t available to shoot his cameo during principal photography.

Hey! An inspiration! "Different voices." It could be like the celebrity callers on Frasier. Different celebs do the voice of the computers throughout the movie. Everyone from John Cleese to Jack Nicholson. From Judi Dench to Cheryl Crow. People would buy the DVD just to ID all the cameos. Disembodied voices are not always easy to identify at first.

I think I'd be pretty good at that, actually; I'm always identifying voice-over announcers and narrators on documentaries.

I'm thinking, however, that Quinto didn't actually mean that the "different voices" were all computer voices, though -- just that there were different voice parts still to be added (including that of the computer) to the movie at that point. Perhaps he had dialogue in some scenes where he had to play against a part with no actor present, or for which no voice actor had yet been cast? It's hard to tell from the quoted remark.