After casting Koenig, Roddenberry wrote a letter to Mikhail Zimyanin, editor of Pravda, informing him of the introduction of a Russian character, and an NBC press release announcing the character at the time stated that it was in response to a Pravda article.

In the late 1950s, Gene Roddenberry wrote two episodes of Have Gun – Will Travel featuring a prison chaplain named Robert April.

Gerrold wrote this script in response to being with Roddenberry at a convention in 1987 where he had promised that the upcoming Next Generation series would deal with the issue of sexual orientation in the egalitarian future.

Roddenberry wrote two story outlines, " The Omega Glory " and " Mudd's Women.

* Robert Wesley was a pseudonym frequently used by Gene Roddenberry when he wrote episodes of Dragnet while still on the LAPD.

Between Star Trek assignments, she wrote the novelization of another Roddenberry project, The Questor Tapes.

Rooted in Gene Roddenberry ’ s Star Trek universe, it was the first Trek spin-off created without direct involvement from Roddenberry, although he did give his blessing to the concept shortly before his death in 1991.

Dolgoff emphasized the importance holography will play in the future and that if Gene Roddenberry wanted to be accurate he must introduce holography into his Star Trek scripts, including the concept of a holographic “ room ” for the crew to use for amusement, training, and other purposes.

The original design concept was influenced by a request from Gene Roddenberry that the instrument panels not have a great deal of activity on them.

Following this trio of productions, the Dylan Hunt concept itself went into suspended animation, to be awakened by Roddenberry's widow, Majel Barrett Roddenberry, this time with great success, a quarter of a century later.

Roddenberry couldn't find any actor he preferred more for Picard, and later relented and changed his concept of Picard to fit Stewart better.

The pilot was written by an ex-policeman named Gene Roddenberry, and a few years later Kelley would appear in another Roddenberry pilot, Police Story ( 1967 ), that was again not developed into a series.

Initially, the character of Saavik, who appeared in the second through fourth Star Trek films, was intended to be the traitor, but Gene Roddenberry objected to making a character loved by fans into a villain.

For example, a cook ( voiced by Roddenberry ) reports that the synthetic meatloaf has been transformed into real turkeys.

* Gene Roddenberry made an uncredited audio cameo as the cook ( or mess officer ) who exclaims that the meatloaf has turned into real turkeys.

Science-fiction writer David Gerrold was with Roddenberry when he promised that Star Trek: The Next Generation ( referred to by fans as TNG ) would integrate LGBT characters into the series and thus drafted a script for an episode that would have had two male crew-members that were a couple, in the backdrop of an allegory about the mistreatment of people infected with AIDS.

" Gerrold has since said that while many of the TNG cast and crew ( including Roddenberry ) were supportive of the storyline, it met stiff opposition from the studio and the script never made it into production.

Roddenberry reworked the material into a second pilot, Planet Earth, in which John Saxon replaced Cord in the role of Dylan Hunt.

Star Trek is an American science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry that follows the adventures of the starship and its crew, led by Captain James T. Kirk ( William Shatner ), first officer Spock ( Leonard Nimoy ), and chief medical officer Dr. Leonard McCoy ( DeForest Kelley ), in the 23rd century.

Worf was at first not intended to be a regular character, since Gene Roddenberry wanted to avoid " retreads of characters or races featured prominently in the original Star Trek series ", and so the June 1, 1987 cast portrait did not include Worf.

The character's middle name, " Eugene ," is a tribute to Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry.

The show was created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller, and Jeri Taylor and is the fourth incarnation of Star Trek, which began with the 1960s series Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.

Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry had worked with Kelley on previous television pilots, and Kelley was Roddenberry's first choice to play the doctor aboard the USS Enterprise.

Kelley was apprehensive about Star Treks future, telling Roddenberry that the show was " going to be the biggest hit or the biggest miss God ever made ".

Star Trek writer D. C. Fontana said that while Roddenberry created the series, Kelley essentially created McCoy ; everything done with the character was done with Kelley's input.

Nichelle Nichols, who played Uhura, referred to Kelley as her " sassy gentleman friend "; the friendship between the African-American Nichols and Southern Kelley was a real-life demonstration of the message Roddenberry hoped to convey through Star Trek.

Gene Roddenberry created the character in honour of George La Forge, a quadriplegic fan of the original Star Trek series who died in 1975.

According to The Star Trek Encyclopedia, the registry number " NCC-1701 " was devised by Matt Jefferies, art director of the first Star Trek series, inspired by an old science fiction cover that Gene Roddenberry liked, with a starship flying through space.

Next came the unexpected sleeping juggernaut, Star Trek, conceived by Gene Roddenberry, and aired on NBC.

* Gene Roddenberry, the creator of Star Trek, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Earth: Final Conflict, and Andromeda

In recognition of its fictional namesake, Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry and most of the principal cast of the original series of Star Trek were on hand at the dedication ceremony.

* August 19 – Gene Roddenberry, American television producer ( Star Trek ) ( died 1991 )

The earliest reference to Vulcan names following a set pattern dates back to a May 3, 1966 memo from TOS producer Robert H. Justman to Gene Roddenberry ( later reprinted in the book The Making of Star Trek ) in which Justman recommended that all Vulcan names begin with " SP " and end with " K ", and have exactly five letters.

As reported by editor Ruth Berman ( issue # 1, Inside Star Trek, July 1968, pp. 15 – 16 ), " ardent rock hound and amateur lapidary " Roddenberry came up with the Vulcan philosophy after he presented Leonard Nimoy with a unique " hand-crafted piece of jewelry ," a " pendent " ( sic ) of polished yellow gold ( circle ) and florentined white gold ( triangle ), with a stone of brilliant white fabulite — an artificial gem " developed by the laser industry and used in space mechanisms for its optical qualities ," and thus well-suited as a gift for an actor in a science fiction show.

The Vulcan homeworld, also named Vulcan, was mentioned in the original series, episode " The City on the Edge of Forever " ( 1967 ) to be orbiting the far left star of Orion's belt, i. e. Alnitak, and in the script-adaptation anthology Star Trek 2, author James Blish put the planet in orbit around the star 40 Eridani A, 16 light years from Earth, an identification later adopted by Roddenberry.

As part of the anti-war message he wanted the show to convey, Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry intended to depict the Federation as if it was like an ideal, optimistic version of the United Nations.

Gene Roddenberry, the creator of the Star Trek series, pitched his show as " Wagon Train to the stars " early on, but admitted later that this was more about getting it produced in a time that loved Western-themed TV series than about its actual content.

Trek creator Gene Roddenberry said he did not intentionally dub the character after Dr. Spock, but rather wanted to imbue his stoic creation with a strong-sounding, monosyllabic name.

In 1986, Gene Roddenberry approached him with the role of the then Lieutenant Junior Grade Geordi La Forge in the Star Trek: The Next Generation television series.

* Gene Roddenberry: Star Trek, Star Trek: The Next Generation

1987 saw the arrival of what is perhaps the most successful, in terms of sales and worldwide viewing figures, science fiction series of all time, Gene Roddenberry ’ s re-launching of his Star Trek franchise, Star Trek: The Next Generation.

Image from Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, When the Bough Breaks © 1988 Paramount Pictures, produced by Gene Roddenberry.

Image from Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, The Child © 1988 Paramount Pictures, produced by Gene Roddenberry.

Image from Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, Elementary, Dear Data © 1988 Paramount Pictures, produced by Gene Roddenberry.

Image from Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, The Schizoid Man © 1989 Paramount Pictures, produced by Gene Roddenberry.

Image from Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, Journey's End © 1994 Paramount Pictures, produced by Gene Roddenberry.

Image from Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, Loud as a Whisper © 1989 Paramount Pictures, produced by Gene Roddenberry.

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Image from Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, The Measure of a Man © 1989 Paramount Pictures, produced by Gene Roddenberry.

Image from Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, The Dauphin © 1989 Paramount Pictures, produced by Gene Roddenberry.

Image from Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, Contagion © 1989 Paramount Pictures, produced by Gene Roddenberry.

Image from Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, The Royale © 1989 Paramount Pictures, produced by Gene Roddenberry.

Image from Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, Time Squared © 1989 Paramount Pictures, produced by Gene Roddenberry.

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