Summary
- Rod Roddenberry believes that his late mother, Majel Barrett-Roddenberry, would have had strong opinions about the modern Star Trek shows and would have fought for the preservation of Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek ideals.
- Majel Barrett-Roddenberry, who played the character of Lwaxana Troi in Star Trek, was known for being outspoken and never holding back her opinions in real life. This suggests that if she were still alive, she would have vocalized her thoughts about the current Star Trek series.
- While the modern Star Trek shows may be different from what Gene Roddenberry originally created, Rod Roddenberry and his mother both believed in the optimism and positive values of Star Trek. Majel would have wanted to ensure that these values were present in all Star Trek content.
Gene Roddenberry's son, Rod Roddenberry explains what his late mother, Majel Barrett-Roddenberry, would have thought about the current Star Trek series on The Shuttlepod Show. Rod is the CEO of Roddenberry Entertainment, and he is an executive producer of the various Star Trek series on Paramount+. Rod and his parents are literally Star Trek royalty, but the franchise is now also markedly different from the Star Trek Gene Roddenberry created in the 1960s and updated in 1987 with Star Trek: The Next Generation.
During an appearance on The Shuttlepod Show hosted by Dominic Keating, Connor Trinneer, and Erica LaRose, Rod Roddenberry answered a fan question about what he thinks his mother, Majel Barrett-Roddenberry, would have thought about the modern Star Trek shows. Read his quote and watch the video of The Shuttlepod Show at the 1:10:10 time stamp below:
Well, for those who don’t know, my mother was Lwaxana… When they created the character of Lwaxana, it wasn’t “Oh, we’ve got this character Lwaxana, who are we gonna cast?” It was “Gene is going to put Majel in the show. We need a character. All right, let’s create this obnoxious, kind of crazy, boisterous woman who will be Troi’s mother.” She was like that in real life. She really never held her opinions. She would share…
If she were here today, she would definitely have strong opinions. She also protected the hell out of my father, even when he was wrong. I know she’d be proud of the shows, but I also know she would have very strong opinions. Because, like me, she was close to Star Trek and believed in that optimism, believed in that sort of positive side of Star Trek, believed in us being better humans in the future… And she believed in that future, so she wants to make sure that that would be in all Star Trek.
