Re: Hot Box Detector - UP Detector voice I.D.
Author: Throttle Hogg
Date: 12-22-2011 - 21:46
UP detector's female voice (and on several other railroads) was provided by the actress Majel Barrett (otherwise known as Mrs. Gene Roddenberry). Barrett provided the computer voice for all the original Star Trek TV series, Star Trek The Next Generation, and many of the Star Trek spin offs, and in the 2009 movie. Barrett also played Counselor Troi's mother on Star Trek The Next Generation. Majel Barrett (2/23/32-12/18/08) completed the voice work for the 2009 Star Trek movie just prior to her death from leukemia. Her voice lives on in the upcoming "Hamlet A.D.D". to be released in 2012---and on railroad radios everywhere.