"books, video games, and fan films set in the ""Star Trek"" universe. Roddenberry was born on August 19, 1921, in his parents' rented home in El Paso, Texas, the first child of Eugene Edward Roddenberry and Caroline ""Glen"" (née Goleman) Roddenberry. The family moved to Los Angeles in 1923 after Gene's father passed the Civil Service test and was given a police commission there. During his childhood, Roddenberry was interested in reading, especially pulp magazines, and was a fan of stories such as ""John Carter of Mars"", ""Tarzan"", and the ""Skylark"" series by E. E. Smith. Roddenberry majored in police"
"Society and The George Pal Memorial Award at the Saturn Awards, as well as the Exceptional Public Service Medal by NASA. Sources Gene Roddenberry Eugene Wesley Roddenberry (August 19, 1921 – October 24, 1991) was an American television screenwriter and producer. He is best remembered for creating the . 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 followed in his father's footsteps and joined the"
"Gene Roddenberry Eugene Wesley Roddenberry (August 19, 1921 – October 24, 1991) was an American television screenwriter and producer. He is best remembered for creating the . 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 followed in his father's footsteps and joined the Los Angeles Police Department, where he also began to write scripts for television. As a freelance writer, Roddenberry wrote scripts for ""Highway"
"Early life and career of Gene Roddenberry Eugene Wesley ""Gene"" Roddenberry (August 19, 1921 – October 24, 1991) was an American television screenwriter, producer and futurist best remembered for creating the . He was born in El Paso, Texas, but grew up in Los Angeles, California where his father worked as a police officer. While at school, the young Roddenberry majored in police science and became interested in aeronautical engineering. He obtained a pilot's license through the Civilian Pilot Training Program. Following his graduation, he signed up for the United States Army Air Corps and he enlisted after the attack"
"Personal life of Gene Roddenberry Eugene Wesley ""Gene"" Roddenberry (August 19, 1921 – October 24, 1991) was an American television screenwriter, producer and futurist best remembered for creating the . While at Los Angeles City College, he entered into a relationship with Eileen-Anita Rexroat, who he went on to marry on June 20, 1942, before his deployment in the United States Army Air Corps during World War II. The couple had two daughters together, Darleen Anita and Dawn Allison. He joined the Los Angeles Police Department, and during this time he was known to have had affairs with secretarial staff,"
"Legacy of Gene Roddenberry Eugene Wesley ""Gene"" Roddenberry (August 19, 1921 – October 24, 1991) was an American television screenwriter, producer and futurist best remembered for creating the . In 1985, Gene Roddenberry was the first television writer to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He was given a Macintosh 128K by Apple Inc. in 1986, which was later upgraded by the company and re-designated as a Macintosh Plus with the production number of M-0001. This started the rumor that Roddenberry had received the first Mac-Plus off the production line. When the Sci-Fi Channel was launched in"
"a developing influence on popular culture. ""Star Trek"" eventually spawned a franchise, consisting of six additional television series, thirteen feature films, numerous books, games, and toys, and is now widely considered one of the most popular and influential television series of all time. The series contains significant elements of Space Western, as described by Roddenberry and the general audience. On March 11, 1964, Gene Roddenberry, a long-time fan of science fiction, drafted a short treatment for a science-fiction television series that he called ""Star Trek"". This was to be set on board a large interstellar spaceship named ""S.S. Yorktown"" in"
"A pilot for ""Genesis"" was filmed, and was retained for possible future expansion. After an initial order for two seasons, 110 episodes were ultimately aired over five seasons. At the same time as ""Andromeda"" and ""Genesis"", Tribune also worked on a third Roddenberry series titled ""Starship"". They aimed to launch it via the network route rather than into syndication. It was about the people of Earth teaching art and harmony to the rest of the universe. Rod Roddenberry, president of Roddenberry Productions, announced in 2010, at his father's posthumous induction into the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Hall of"
"Roddenberry, served as consulting producer. The show's best-known episode ""World Enough and Time"" was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form in 2008, alongside episodes of ""Doctor Who"", ""Torchwood"" and ""Battlestar Galactica"", but lost to the ""Doctor Who"" episode ""Blink."" ""Star Trek: New Voyages"" was created by James Cawley in April 2003. Jack Marshall came aboard as a producer with the idea to market the series on the internet. The first episode, ""Come What May"", debuted on the internet on January 2004. The first episodes were filmed on new sets at a long-shuttered car dealership in"
"Andromeda (TV series) Andromeda (formally titled Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda) is a Canadian/American science fiction television series, based on unused material by Gene Roddenberry, developed by Robert Hewitt Wolfe, and produced by Roddenberry's widow, Majel Barrett. It starred Kevin Sorbo as High Guard Captain Dylan Hunt. The series premiered on October 2, 2000, and ended on May 13, 2005. ""Andromeda"" was filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and produced by Andromeda Productions, Tribune Entertainment, Fireworks Entertainment and MBR Productions. In Canada, the show was on Global TV (Fireworks' parent company) in Canada and syndicated in the United States on Tribune, Sinclair"
"resulted in the cancellation of ""Phase II"" at the time of first broadcast in 1970s. While they felt this would not have been the end of the franchise, they suggest it would have resulted in a more immediate reboot with the entire crew re-cast. Star Trek: Phase II Star Trek: Phase II, also known as Star Trek II, is an unproduced American science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry as a sequel to """", which had run from 1966 to 1969. The plans for the series were first developed after the failure to create a feature film based on"
"began the next season and proved to be highly successful. The Lieutenant The Lieutenant is an American television series, the first created by Gene Roddenberry. It aired on NBC on Saturday evenings in the 1963–1964 television schedule. It was produced by Arena Productions, one of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's most successful in-house production companies of the 1960s. Situated at Camp Pendleton, the West Coast base of the U.S. Marine Corps, ""The Lieutenant"" focuses on the men of the Corps in peace time with a Cold War backdrop. The title character is Second Lieutenant William Tiberius Rice, a rifle platoon leader and one of"
"to fly for Pan-Am, but another incident, while flying out of La Guardia Airport, marked the end of his career as a pilot. On a particularly cold and snowy day, the controls froze during takeoff, almost causing the plane to stall. He resigned from Pan-Am on May 15, 1948, and decided to pursue his dream of writing particularly for the new medium of television. On arriving back in Los Angeles, the Roddenberry family lived initially with Gene's parents at 2710 Green Street, Temple City. He obtained employment as a sales manager with the Tri-Vision Corporation in Alhambra, which sold stereo"
"itself as Paramount Communications, and in 1994 merged with Viacom. In 2005, Viacom divided into CBS Corporation, whose CBS Television Studios subsidiary retained the ""Star Trek"" brand, and Viacom, whose Paramount Pictures subsidiary retained the ""Star Trek"" film library and rights to make additional films, along with video distribution rights to the TV series on behalf of CBS. Star Trek Star Trek is an American space opera media franchise based on the science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry. The first television series, simply called ""Star Trek"" and now referred to as """""""", debuted in 1966 and aired for"
"It was created as an antithesis to the 1997 documentary ""Trekkies"", and was intended not to concentrate as heavily on costumed fans of ""Star Trek"". ""Trek Nation"" was first broadcast in the United States on the television channel Science on November 30, 2011. It was first broadcast in the United Kingdom on the channel Quest on July 29, 2012. Trek Nation Trek Nation is a 2011 documentary film directed by Scott Colthorp examining the positive impact that ""Star Trek"" and creator Gene Roddenberry may have had on people's lives as seen through the eyes of his son, Eugene ""Rod"" Roddenberry,"
"Norway Corporation Norway Corporation, also called Norway Productions, was a motion picture and television production company established by Gene Roddenberry. Norway Corporation is best known for having been the production company that brought """" to television on the NBC network in association with Desilu Studios, which later became part of Paramount Television. Gene Roddenberry decided to become a producer as a direct result of his frustrations with his work as a television writer and the difficulty he faced in adding anything substantial to his stories. ""The Lieutenant,"" a 1963-1964 NBC and MGM Television series about the United States Marine Corps"
"and films, including ""Star Trek: The Next Generation"" Star Trek: The Next Generation Star Trek: The Next Generation (TNG and ST:TNG) is an American science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry. It originally aired from September 28, 1987 to May 23, 1994 on syndication, spanning 178 episodes over the course of seven seasons. The third series in the ""Star Trek"" franchise, it is the second sequel to """". Set in the 24th century, when Earth is part of a United Federation of Planets, it follows the adventures of a Starfleet starship, the USS ""Enterprise""-D, in its exploration of the"
"and comedies such as """" and """". In 1999, working from notes by Gene Roddenberry, Wolfe developed the syndicated series ""Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda"". The series premiered in the fall of 2000 as the number one original hour in syndication, a position it held for most of its five-year run. Wolfe served as head writer and co-executive producer on ""Andromeda"" for its first two seasons. During this time, the series was nominated for two Saturn Awards for Best Syndicated Series and for a Leo Award for Best Dramatic Series. During the production of the second season, Wolfe claims that he and"
"Earth: Final Conflict Earth: Final Conflict is a Canadian science fiction television series based on ideas developed by Gene Roddenberry. The series was produced under the guidance of his widow, Majel Barrett-Roddenberry, who possessed notes kept by Roddenberry that would provide the conceptual basis for the series. It ran for five seasons between October 6, 1997 and May 20, 2002. Early in the 21st century, a race of aliens, the Taelons (often referred to as ""The Companions""), travel to Earth and take up residence in limited numbers. The Taelons possess highly advanced technologies, many of which they share with humanity,"
"wanted stereotypical science-fiction women and were unhappy when that was not delivered. Roddenberry was not involved in a third reworking of the material by ABC that produced ""Strange New World."" He began developing ""MAGNA I,"" an underwater science-fiction series, for 20th Century Fox Television. By the time the work on the script was complete, though, those who had approved the project had left Fox and their replacements were not interested in the project. A similar fate was faced by ""Tribunes,"" a science-fiction police series, which Roddenberry attempted to get off the ground between 1973 and 1977. He gave up after"
"Robert Hewitt Wolfe Robert Hewitt Wolfe (born 1964) is an American television producer and screenwriter. He is best known for his work as a writer on """" and for developing and producing the series ""Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda"". Wolfe was a writer from an early age. He attempted but did not complete several novels between the ages of ten and twenty. He turned to film and television writing in college. Wolfe graduated from UCLA, receiving a bachelor's degree in Film and Television and a MFA in Screenwriting. His first screenplay, ""Paper Dragons"", placed second in the prestigious Goldwyn awards. In 1992,"
"2005. It has been extremely popular worldwide and has greatly influenced later TV science fiction programs, as well as popular culture. """", produced by Gene Roddenberry, premiered in 1966 on NBC Television and ran through the 1969 season. It combined elements of space opera and space Western. Although only mildly successful it gained popularity through later syndication and eventually spawned a very popular and influential franchise through films, later programs, and novels; as well as by intense fan interest. Other programs in the 1960s included ""The Prisoner"", ""The Outer Limits"", and ""Lost in Space"". In 1987 """" began a torrent"
"him writing scripts for the series under the pseudonym of ""Robert Wesley"". This led to a series of collaborations with Ziv Television Programs, and he resigned from the police on June 7, 1956, in order to take up a writing position on the staff of ""The West Point Story"". Gene Roddenberry was born on August 19, 1921 in his parents' rented home in El Paso, Texas, the first child of Eugene Edward Roddenberry and Caroline ""Glen"" (née Goleman) Roddenberry. He was named after his father and referred to as ""Little"" Gene. Roddenberry would later describe his father as ""very intelligent"""
"Roddenberry over the tone of the installment """", partly a satire on the medium of television, Coon left the writing staff and designated John Meredyth Lucas as showrunner. Lucas, who had already written the installments """" and """" for the program, quoted Coon as saying, after announcing to him (Lucas) that he (Coon) was leaving, ""Why the hell don't you take over? You produced ""The Fugitive"" and ""Ben Casey"" and that shit"". Lucas suspected Coon may have been secretly diagnosed with cancer, but he never definitely learned whether this was the case. Coon contributed to four scripts for the third"
"television series, the film franchise, and further adaptations in several media. In creating ""Star Trek"", Roddenberry was inspired by the Horatio Hornblower novels, the satirical book ""Gulliver's Travels"", and by works of western genre such as the television series ""Wagon Train"". These adventures continued in the 22-episode """" and six feature films. Four spin-off television series were eventually produced: """" followed the crew of a new starship ""Enterprise"" set a century after the original series; """" and """" set contemporaneously with ""The Next Generation""; and """" set before the original series in the early days of human interstellar travel. The"
"Star Trek Star Trek is an American space opera media franchise based on the science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry. The first television series, simply called ""Star Trek"" and now referred to as """""""", debuted in 1966 and aired for three seasons on the television network NBC. It followed the interstellar adventures of Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner) and his crew aboard the starship USS ""Enterprise"", a space exploration vessel, built by the United Federation of Planets in the twenty-third century. The ""Star Trek"" canon of the franchise includes ""The Original Series"", an animated series, five spin-off"
"1979 ""Captain America"" film. He has a single theatrical film credit, ""Airport 1975"" (1974). His final work was the 2005 novel, ""Watchers on the Mountain"", a fictional work about the Navajo Nation. He died in 2014 after a long illness at his home in Olympia, Washington. Don Ingalls Donald G. Ingalls (July 29, 1918 – March 10, 2014) was an American screenwriter and television producer. He was a lifelong friend of Gene Roddenberry, having served in the Los Angeles Police Department with him. Don Ingalls was born in Humboldt, Nebraska on July 29, 1918. During the Second World War, Ingalls"
"June 24, 2013 in the UK, with the next two seasons following by the end of that year. The ALL Region blu-ray release of the complete box set of all five seasons was released on September 19, 2016. ""Andromeda"" was nominated for 39 awards at organizational events spanning the years 2001 to 2006. The nominations comprised six Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA awards, five Chicago International Film Festival awards, eight Gemini Awards, fifteen Leo Awards, and five WorldFest Houston awards. The show won 18 of those awards. Andromeda (TV series) Andromeda (formally titled Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda)"
"a complicated licensing situation. They announced the release of Series 1 and Series 2 as codefree, sound: German DD 2.0, English DD 2.0 and subtitles: English. Via Vision Entertainment has released all five seasons on DVD in Australia. Earth: Final Conflict Earth: Final Conflict is a Canadian science fiction television series based on ideas developed by Gene Roddenberry. The series was produced under the guidance of his widow, Majel Barrett-Roddenberry, who possessed notes kept by Roddenberry that would provide the conceptual basis for the series. It ran for five seasons between October 6, 1997 and May 20, 2002. Early in"
"after the pickup of the series by NBC. Wolfe has written several unproduced features. These include ""Splicers"" for 20th Century Fox and ""Zero Gee"" for John Woo and Terrance Chang's Lion Rock Productions. , he lives in Los Angeles, California, with his wife Celeste and dog Tonka. Robert Hewitt Wolfe Robert Hewitt Wolfe (born 1964) is an American television producer and screenwriter. He is best known for his work as a writer on """" and for developing and producing the series ""Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda"". Wolfe was a writer from an early age. He attempted but did not complete several novels"
"The Lieutenant The Lieutenant is an American television series, the first created by Gene Roddenberry. It aired on NBC on Saturday evenings in the 1963–1964 television schedule. It was produced by Arena Productions, one of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's most successful in-house production companies of the 1960s. Situated at Camp Pendleton, the West Coast base of the U.S. Marine Corps, ""The Lieutenant"" focuses on the men of the Corps in peace time with a Cold War backdrop. The title character is Second Lieutenant William Tiberius Rice, a rifle platoon leader and one of the training instructors at Camp Pendleton. An hour-long drama, ""The"
"rights to produce feature films. Two films, ""Galaxy Quest"" (1999) and ""Free Enterprise"" (1999), and a television series, ""The Orville"", have been inspired by the cultural influence of ""Star Trek"". Gene Roddenberry sold """" in 1964 to NBC as a classic adventure drama, calling it a ""Wagon Train to the Stars"". But Roddenberry wanted to tell more sophisticated stories, using futuristic situations as analogies for current problems on Earth and showing how they could be rectified through humanism and optimism. The series' writers frequently addressed moral and social issues such as slavery, warfare, and discrimination. The opening line ""to boldly"
"to buy into that."" In early 1996, Majel Barret-Roddenberry uncovered scripts for a series called ""Battleground Earth"". The project was sent to distributors by the Creative Artists Agency, and it was picked up by Tribune Entertainment, which set the budget at over $1 million per episode. The series was renamed """" before launch. Two further series ideas were developed from Roddenberry's notes, ""Genesis"" and ""Andromeda"". After an initial order for two seasons, 110 episodes of ""Andromeda"" were aired over five seasons. Tribune also worked on another Roddenberry series. Titled ""Starship""; they aimed to launch it via the network route rather"