“How can I take seriously a God-image that requires that I prostrate myself every seven days and praise it? That sounds to me like a very insecure personality.”
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Gene Roddenberry
Eugene "Gene" Wesley Roddenberry Sr. was an American television screenwriter and producer who created the science fiction series and fictional universe Star Trek. Born in El Paso, Texas, Roddenberry grew up in Los Angeles, where his father was a police officer. Roddenberry flew 89 combat missions in the Army Air Forces during World War II and worked as a commercial pilot after the war. Later, he j…
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Born 19 August 1921 · Died 24 October 1991 · Q191716
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But you must understand that I am a complete pagan, and consume enormous amounts of bread, having found the Word more spice than nourishment, so I am interested in a statement couched in dollars and cents of what this means to the Roddenberry treasury.
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2026· 10 entries
“But you must understand that I am a complete pagan, and consume enormous amounts of bread, having found the Word more spice than nourishment, so I am interested in a statement couched in dollars and cents of what this means to the Roddenberry treasury.”
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Public attention spiked: 3,823 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.5× the usual 1,096, with 0 article edits.
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Variety: Neil deGrasse Tyson, Neal Stephenson, Mira Lane, Rod Roddenberry to Judge XPRIZE Sci-Fi Film Competition
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Stevivor: Star Trek creator’s son, Rod Roddenberry, named as judge in XPRIZE film competition
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Mshale: Anson Mount Quoting Gene Roddenberry: "Toes In The Mud" Kai Havertz (lheKvd8WZN)
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SlashFilm: Star Trek Creator Gene Roddenberry Had A Scientific Explanation For Spock's Green Blood
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ComicBook.com: 5 Times Star Trek Movies & TV Shows Broke Gene Roddenberry’s Rules
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Yahoo: Iconic Star Trek Role Was Created So Gene Roddenberry Could Get Lucky
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Yahoo: Gene Roddenberry Redeemed Iconic Star Trek Villain Before Dying
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2025· 1 entry
Game Rant: Gene Roddenberry Fought William Shatner On Star Trek 5
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2024· 1 entry
Laweekly: Might Gene Roddenberry Have Saved the World?
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2016· 1 entry
On the Sunjammer solar sail experiment, but the project was canceled in 2014
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2015· 1 entry
Snopes rated the claim “Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry survived a plane crash in 1947.” True.
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2010· 1 entry
At his father's posthumous induction into the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Hall of Fame, that he was aiming to take The Questor Tapes to television
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2009· 1 entry
Cult of Mac: Star Trek Creator Gene Roddenberry’s Mac Plus to be Auctioned
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2008· 1 entry
Was initially planned to take place in 2009
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2007· 2 entries
Awarded Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame (2007).
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And the Television Academy Hall of Fame in January 2010
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2002· 1 entry
The spacecraft's orbit deteriorated and it disintegrated in the atmosphere
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1997· 2 entries
A Celestis spacecraft with 7 grams (1⁄4 oz) of the cremated remains of Roddenberry, along with those of Timothy Leary, Gerard K
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Six years after Gene's death; it ran for five seasons and 110 episodes until 2002
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1996· 1 entry
The California Court of Appeals ruled that the original will, which stated that anyone who contested it would be disinherited, would stand
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1993· 1 entry
The Los Angeles Superior Court ruled that improprieties existed in the management of the trust and removed Barrett as executor
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1992· 1 entry
Some of Roddenberry's ashes were flown into space, and returned to Earth, on the Space Shuttle Columbia mission STS-52
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1991· 6 entries
Died 1991-10-24.
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Was posthumously awarded the Robert A
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“We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.”
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“I condemn false prophets, I condemn the effort to take away the power of rational decision, to drain people of their free will — and a hell of a lot of money in the bargain. Religions vary in their degree of idiocy, but I reject them all. For most people, religion is nothing more than a substitute for a malfunctioning brain.”
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“Star Trek speaks to some basic human needs: that there is a tomorrow — it's not all going to be over with a big flash and a bomb; that the human race is improving; that we have things to be proud of as humans. No, ancient astronauts did not build the pyramids — human beings built them, because they're clever and they work hard. And Star Trek is about those things.”
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“The glory of creation is in its infinite diversity.”
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1990· 1 entry
Nicholas Meyer was brought in to direct the sixth film in the series: Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
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1987· 1 entry
The sequel series Star Trek: The Next Generation began airing on television in first-run syndication; Roddenberry was involved in the initial development but took a less active role after the first season due to ill hea
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1985· 2 entries
Gene Roddenberry was the first television writer to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
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Roddenberry became the first TV writer with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
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1980· 1 entry
Roddenberry submitted a treatment for a proposed sequel about the crew preventing the alien Klingons from thwarting the assassination of John F
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1976· 1 entry
Released album “Inside Star Trek”.
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1974· 2 entries
To positive critical response, but Roddenberry balked at the substantial changes requested by the network and left the project, leading to its immediate cancellation
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Roddenberry was paid $25,000 by John Whitmore to write a script called The Nine
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1973· 2 entries
And 15,000 attended in 1974, eclipsing the more established array of approximately 3,600 fans and industry professionals who attended the 32nd World Science Fiction Convention in Washington, D
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About creating an animated Star Trek series
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1972· 1 entry
And 1973, Roddenberry made a comeback to science fiction, selling ideas for four new series to a variety of networks
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1969· 1 entry
While scouting locations in Japan for MGM for Pretty Maids All in a Row, he proposed to Barrett by telephone
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1968· 3 entries
Two weeks after the marriage of his daughter
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NBC announced on air, at the end of "The Omega Glory", that Star Trek would return for a third season
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A thousand students from 20 schools marched on the studio
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1967· 1 entry
Awarded Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation for Star Trek: The Original Series (1967).
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1965· 1 entry
And was completed at around half the cost of "The Cage", since the sets were already built
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1964· 1 entry
Roddenberry created the original Star Trek series, which premiered in 1966 and ran for three seasons
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1961· 1 entry
Agreed to appear in an advertisement for MONY (Mutual of New York) as long as he had final approval
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1956· 2 entries
Resigned from the LAPD to concentrate on his writing career
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Pitched a series to CBS set aboard a cruise ship, Hawaii Passage, but they did not buy it, as he wanted to become a producer and have full creative control
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1949· 1 entry
And spent his first sixteen months in the traffic division before being transferred to the newspaper unit
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1948· 1 entry
And decided to pursue his dream of writing, particularly for the new medium of television
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1946· 1 entry
The American public accepted it as the action of freedom fighters, whereas a car bombing by a Muslim in Beirut is condemned as a terrorist act
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1945· 1 entry
Roddenberry began flying for Pan American World Airways, including routes from New York to Johannesburg or Calcutta, the two longest Pan Am routes at the time
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1943· 1 entry
Roddenberry was piloting B-17E-BO number 41-2463, nicknamed "Yankee Doodle," when the plane had a malfunction during takeoff
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1942· 3 entries
The unit flew to Viti Levu in Fiji, where they patrolled the seas surrounding the island
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When he was commissioned as a second lieutenant
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They became engaged before Roddenberry left Los Angeles during his military service, and they married on June 20, 1942, at the chapel at Kelly Field.
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1939· 1 entry
At Franklin High School in Highland Park, Los Angeles, Roddenberry majored in police science at Los Angeles City College, where he began dating Eileen-Anita Rexroat and became interested in aeronautical engineering
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1923· 1 entry
After Gene's father passed the civil service test and was given a police commission there
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1921· 2 entries
In his parents' rented home in El Paso, Texas, the first child of Eugene Edward Roddenberry and Caroline "Glen" (née Golemon) Roddenberry
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Born 1921-08-19.
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