Majel Barrett Roddenberry, Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry’s widow and a fixture of nearly every incarnation of the space travel franchise, died on Thursday. She was 76.

You may know her more as the Betazoid ambassador Lwaxana Troi and as the voice of the starship’s onboard computer — a job she would also hold on spin-offs Deep Space Nine and Voyager, audio books, animated series, video games as well as on the forthcoming J.J. Abrams prequel film.

After her husband’s death in 1991, Roddenberry continued his legacy by helping bring to life other TV projects he had been working on, including the television series Earth: Final Conflict and Andromeda.

I’m am so deeply sadden by this. I didn’t even know she was battling cancer.

I’ve been a life long trekkie and it just makes me feel sad that she is gone. I guess you can’t live forever but her memory and her special place in history will go on.

Majel you will be missed.