A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.
These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise, it's continuing mission to explore a strange new world, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no one has gone before.
These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five year mission... to boldly go where no man has gone before.
Time is the fire in which we burn.
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.
There is an asteroid named in his honor, named "4659 Roddenberry".
Gene Roddenberry originally conceived the Klingons to look more "alien" than they do in the original Star Trek series, but budget constraints prevented this.
Was a close friend of Jack Webb.
Died on 24 October 1991, exactly ten years after Marina Sirtis's father.
Father, with Majel Barrett, of Rod Roddenberry.
Shared the same birthday as "Star Trek: The Next Generation" (1987) star Jonathan Frakes.
His old pseudonym Robert Wesley was used in the "Star Trek" (1966) episode "The Ultimate Computer" as the name of a character, played by Barry Russo.
In 1943 while a US Army Air Corps pilot, his plane crashed on takeoff due to a mechanical failure, killing two crew members.
Gene has a building named in his honor on the Paramount Studio lot.
Gene's first TV script sale, in 1953, was the episode Defense Plant Gambling' for the show Mr. District Attorney (1954). It was broadcast March 2, 1954. In the science-fiction field, his first was The Secret Weapon of 117, broadcast March 6, 1956 on the anthology series Gruen Guild Playhouse (1951).
On June 19, 1947 Gene was deadheading (traveling while not on duty) on a Pan Am plane when it crashed in the Syrian desert, killing 7 of 9 crew and 7 of 26 passengers on board. He rescued the Maharani of Pheleton from the wreck. Rescue came in hours, but too late to save most of the luggage, and the victims' possessions, from local tribesmen and villagers.
Gene might have died in a house fire when still a toddler along with Bob, Doris, and their mother, but a milkman came along and woke them in time.
Gene's nickname was "The Great Bird of the Galaxy."
In 1997, some of Gene's ashes were sent into space, launched by a rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base.
Gene shared the same birthday as Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987) star, Jonathan Frakes.
Gene was married to actress Majel Barrett from December 29, 1969 until his death on October 24, 1991.
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