Gene Roddenberry
- Birthdate: August 24, 1921
- Birthplace: El Paso, Texas
- Death: October 24, 1991
- Known For: Star Trek, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Planet Earth
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The Best Star Trek Show Never Got The Audience It Deserves
Star Trek fans have always enjoyed the franchise’s techno-powered socialist utopia, so it’s only fitting that the cancellation of Lower …
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How Star Trek: The Next Generation’s Most Ambitious Idea Was Ruined By Its Best Guest
In Star Trek: The Next Generation, no guest character is more memorable than Majel Barrett Roddenberry’s Lwaxana Troi, the prime …
How Gene Roddenberry’s Other Star Trek Style Franchise Was Destroyed By Kevin Sorbo
Forgotten in the shadow of Star Trek is Gene Roddenberry’s other sci-fi show, Earth: Final Conflict, a syndicated 90s series …
Infamous Star Trek Episode Infuriated Writers To Create Another Episode
It may not fit with the idealized future of Gene Roddenberry, but we’re big fans of the truism that we …
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Beloved Star Trek Actor Fought To Retain Vulcan Lore
It’s obviously not a requirement that every Star Trek actor be an expert in the franchise…in fact, some of the …
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Star Trek’s Worst Showrunner Perfected Its Best Villain
One of the things that many fans forget about Star Trek: The Next Generation is that it had three different …
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The Star Trek Writer Who Gave Data His Finest Moment
Star Trek is one of science fiction’s longest-running franchises, and even as audiences are enjoying NuTrek offerings like Strange New …
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Star Trek’s Transwarp Drive Explained, And Why It Didn’t Work For Excelsior
One of the most exciting concepts in Star Trek is also the most confusing: the transwarp drive. It’s a concept …
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The Forgotten Star Trek Director Who Tried To Save The Franchise
Despite how popular and long-lasting Star Trek has been as a franchise, most fans only know about a small handful …
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How Star Trek’s Best Show Subverted Its Biggest Theme
We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again, Star Trek fans: Deep Space Nine is the best show in …
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How Star Trek Fans Changed Deep Space Nine For The Better
From the very beginning, Star Trek has been a show that fans have had a major hand in shaping. For …
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Star Trek TNG Actors Want Funeral Potatoes Across The Country
If you were to overhear someone talking about Star Trek and funeral potatoes in the same sentence, you’d be forgiven …
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Forgotten Star Trek Episode Nearly Features Fan-Favorite Villain
One of the side effects of Star Trek having so many spinoffs and onscreen adventures is that it’s easy to …
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The Star Trek Episode Gene Roddenberry Made Nearly Impossible To Film
Gene Roddenberry created Star Trek out of his utopian ideals, but it didn’t take long for those ideals to cause …
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Acclaimed Star Trek Director Is Blunt About His Own Obituary
There are few people as important to the Star Trek franchise as Nicholas Meyer, who directed both The Wrath of …
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Gene Roddenberry’s Toxic Relationship With Star Trek’s Best Director
Two of the biggest names in Star Trek are Gene Roddenberry (the man who created this awesome franchise) and Nicholas …
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The Worst Star Trek Acting Moment Is Secretly Its Best
While the franchise has some of the greatest moments in television history, it also has a fair amount of shlockiness …
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Star Trek Scientific Theory Proven True Decades Later
Star Trek has always been a futuristic franchise rooted in real-life science and technology, providing a layer of realism that …
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Star Trek: Prodigy Is The Perfect Voyager Spinoff
Ever since the Picard series premiere, Star Trek fans have been wondering if we might get other spinoffs from the …
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The Star Trek: Voyager Episode That Made TV History
When you think about Star Trek folks who have made television history, chances are that you think about people like …
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The Star Trek: Voyager Ending That Led To Battlestar Galactica
Ronald D. Moore is one of the biggest names in science fiction, working on Star Trek shows like The Next …
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The Star Trek Heroes Most Likely To Survive Predator
Who in the ranks of Star Trek’s heroes could survive one of the Predator films? It doesn’t look good for …
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The Mysterious Star Trek TNG Computer Voice Fans Are Still Trying To Decode
Even non-Star Trek fans usually know who provided the computer voice in The Next Generation and most other shows: Majel …
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Star Trek’s Best Character Makes No Sense
While the franchise is full of awesome characters, the android Data may be the best character in all of Star …
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Star Trek’s Worst Show Fixes One Of The Worst Movies
While it ended with a very strong season, the blunt truth is that Picard is the worst Star Trek spinoff, …
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Fan-Favorite Star Trek Legend Dead At 70
Patti Yasutake may not have been a household name, but she is instantly recognizable to fans of genre television. She …
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Star Trek Movie Most Worth Skipping Isn’t The Worst
What’s best or worst is always subjective, but I still feel confident in my opinion that whatever the worst Star …
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New Star Trek Live-Action Series With Lower Decks Star Announced
This year’s San Diego Comic-Con has certainly been one for the books for fandoms like Marvel, Dexter, and The Boys, …
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Battlestar Galactica Showrunner Shocked By Star Trek Resemblance
Normally, there isn’t much in common between Battlestar Galactica and Star Trek, and that’s by design. After years of writing …
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Iconic Star Trek Character Exists Because Of The Monkees
Hey, Hey, we’re the Trekkies! Did you know that if you’re a fan of Star Trek’s grooviest Ensign, Pavel Chekov, …
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