So has it been established if Majel Barett will be the voice of the Enterprise's computer in this new film?
The Computer Voice
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Agreed! However, I heard somewhere (possibly here) that she is quite ill and unable to work.
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OMFG IT DOESN'T MATTER BECAUSE I WILL BOYCOTT THE FILM EITHER WAY BECAUSE I AM AN IRATE FAN AND NOTHING ANYONE DOES MAKES ME HAPPY
you know I can't tell if I'm being sarcastic or not. Troubling!
That said, I'd like her to do the voice for continuity-sake if she's able.
you know I can't tell if I'm being sarcastic or not. Troubling!
That said, I'd like her to do the voice for continuity-sake if she's able.
Sorry to hear that.However, I heard somewhere (possibly here) that she is quite ill and unable to work.
Fuck continuity — it would just be nice.
Majel Barett wasn't the voice of any Star Trek computer before TNG, which was the mid 2360's. Excelsior's computer voice was male, and the original Enterprise's computer just before Kirk blew it up was a female on mass amounts of valium.
All I care about is that the computer voice had better not sound like it came from a speak-n-spell or a voice-recognition program like the computer on The Incredibles.
All I care about is that the computer voice had better not sound like it came from a speak-n-spell or a voice-recognition program like the computer on The Incredibles.
I will so boycott this movie if it doesn't speak with a lot of clicks and says "working" before giving an answer.
It would be cool if Majel could do it just because though maybe we should ask who we would have do it otherwise. Maybe Gillian Anderson?
It would be cool if Majel could do it just because though maybe we should ask who we would have do it otherwise. Maybe Gillian Anderson?
Your memory's fine. She did.^ I thought she did the computer for TOS as well. Maybe my memory's iffy.
I take it you never watched "Star Trek?" She was the voice of the computer in that series.
Personally, I don't want her voice to be used... but I DO want a female voice to be used, and it's just fine if the general voice used sounds somewhat similar to hers, though perhaps a less (this is my personal opinion, mind you!)... GRATING.
A female voice, emotionless, should be used for computer voices. Why? It's well-known that female voices are "easier to listen to" over long times... that's why most language-learning programs use female voices for the most part.
The trick is to keep the emotionless "monotone" without being having the halting, broken feel that the TOS computer voice bits had, or the "too personable" feel that the TNG computer voice had.
I don't want any "WORK-ING." But I also don't want "Hi there, I'm your happy ship's computer! Nice to see ya! Gee, Captain, you look great!"
John Cleese! 
If anyone has heard his voice for the Tom Tom Sat-Nav systems, its absolutely fantastic.
Follow this for the best thing youve heard all day...
http://www.tomtom.com/plus/service.php?ID=5&BID=14
If anyone has heard his voice for the Tom Tom Sat-Nav systems, its absolutely fantastic.
Follow this for the best thing youve heard all day...
http://www.tomtom.com/plus/service.php?ID=5&BID=14
It depends where the majority of this film is taking place. We never heard any computer voice in the pilots. Even in the Classic Series, the Enterprise occasionally had work done to the ship's main computer... Think "Recording, Dear!" They're just like Satellite Navigation in your car. So Majel's non involvement could easily be explained.
I'm sick of her voice.
I'd prefer a different one.
I'd prefer a different one.
Break trad. Clean slate. Start over. Move on.
It would be cool if the voice were actually from say, a Mac text-to-speech program, so we could all play Star Trek and have the computer say anything we want.
"Incoming subspace signal. Dumbass."
It would be cool if the voice were actually from say, a Mac text-to-speech program, so we could all play Star Trek and have the computer say anything we want.
"Incoming subspace signal. Dumbass."
Sure beats "You've got mail," doesn't it?
John Cleese!
If anyone has heard his voice for the Tom Tom Sat-Nav systems, its absolutely fantastic.
Follow this for the best thing youve heard all day...
http://www.tomtom.com/plus/service.php?ID=5&BID=14
That's awesome!! Strangely enough the female voice on my Garmin sounds like Majel so much we call her "Chapel". Our family vehicle is also a white Voyager minivan...so...yeah....it's the shuttlecraft.
-Rabittooth
Edward James Olmos has a good voice.
And when the crew asks the computer to do something impossible, Adama's face could just appear on the viewscreen, looking all pissed off.
And when the crew asks the computer to do something impossible, Adama's face could just appear on the viewscreen, looking all pissed off.
If Majel is unavailable, they should get Leslie Hendrix to do the computer voice.
(She plays the medical examiner, Elizabeth Rodgers, on Law & Order. Her voice sounds a lot like Majel's.)
(She plays the medical examiner, Elizabeth Rodgers, on Law & Order. Her voice sounds a lot like Majel's.)
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