10 Background Actors In Star Trek Who Got Themselves Noticed
4. Majel Barrett
For an actor who was fired after their first episode, Majel Barrett sure did find a way to keep coming back to Star Trek!
The story of her introduction (on-screen, that is) to Star Trek is fairly well documented. She appeared as Number One, the first officer in the original pilot The Cage. When the network executives demanded a rewrite and change up to the show, her character was cut.
This could have been the end of her career in Star Trek, yet the role of Nurse Christine Chapel was written for her. She would stand out so much in this part that she would appear many more times as the character, coming back for the films (promoted to Doctor Chapel) and would of course become Lwaxana Troi in The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine.