Gene Roddenberry
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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.
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Roddenberry during his senior year of high school at Franklin High School (1939).
Leonard Nimoy first worked with Roddenberry on The Lieutenant.
Roddenberry appearing in an advertisement for MONY in 1961
William Shatner and Sally Kellerman, from "Where No Man Has Gone Before", the second pilot of Star Trek
Some of the main cast of Star Trek during the third season
Cast of Pretty Maids All in a Row (L-R): (front row) June Fairchild, Joy Bang, Aimee Eccles; (middle row) Joanna Cameron, Gene Roddenberry, Rock Hudson, Roger Vadim; (back row) Margaret Markov, Brenda Sykes, Diane Sherry, Gretchen Burrell
Roddenberry at a Star Trek convention in 1976Listen
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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 joined the Los Angeles Police Department and began to write for television.
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