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Roddenberry, Eugene Wesley (1921-1991)
CREATOR OF THE STARTREK
SAGA
EUGENE WESLEY
RODDENBERRY
(1921 - 1991)
1. Life
1921 born in El Paso, Texas on August
19th
1941 graduated from LA City College
volunteered for the U.S. Army Air
Corps
Second Lieutenant, took part in 89 missions
and sorties
Distinguished flying Cross and the Air
Medal
1945 Commercial pilot for Pan
Am
Airlines
Los Angeles police
officer
1953 Free lance author, Western "Have Gun
Will Travel"
1963 Roddenberry sold his first own series
"The Lieutenant"
1964 Making of "The Cage", first TOS pilot
1965 Making of "Where No Man Has Gone
Before", 2nd pilot
1966 StarTrek, The Original Series, was
launched
1968 Uproar in the US: During the episode
"Plato`s Stepchildren": A white man kisses a black woman
1969
married Majel Barrett ("The Computer",
"Nurse Chapel" from TOS and "Lwaxana Troi" in TNG and DS9)
1977 Doctor
of Humane Letters from Emerson College in Boston, Mass., Doctor of Literature
from Union College in Los Angeles
1981 Doctor of Science from Clarkson College
in Potsdam, New York
1986 A star on the Hollywood Walk of
Fame
1987 Making of "Encounter at Farpoint", TNG
pilot
TNG was launched
Peabody Award for the "Best of the Best."
(TNG)
1990 Jack
Benny Memorial Award for lifetime achievement
1991 On Thursday, October 24th
"Gene Roddenberry passed away and a world not so far away mourned the loss of
one of television`s foremost
pioneers."[1]
Rick Berman and Micheal Piller continued the
StarTrek Saga
2. StarTrek
Series:
TOS -
The Original Series (1966 - 1969)
TNG -
The Next Generation (1987 - 1994)
DS9 - Deep Space Nine (1993 -
)
VOY -
Voyager (1994 - )
3. StarTrek
Movies
I. Star Trek: The Motion Picture
(1979)
II. The Wrath of Khan
(1982)
III. The Search for Spock
(1984)
IV. The Voyage Home
(1986)
V. The Final Frontier
(1989)
VI. The Undiscovered Country
(1991)
VII. Generations (1994)
VIII. First Contact (1996)
4. The
Message
- While making Star
Trek, Roddenberry`s reputation as a futurist began to grow. His papers and
lectures earned him high professional regard in that field. He spoke on the
subject at NASA meetings, the Smithsonian Institution, Library of Congress
gatherings and top universities.
- Some of the Science
Fiction of StarTrek TOS is the science fact of today, some examples include:
compact voice-activated computers, mobile hand-held communicators, computerized
medical beds which help diagnose illness, and laser weapons. The famous
scientist Stephen Hawking is working on the Warp drive theory for years, since
he considers it to be possible.
- StarTrek is seen in
more than 100 countries and has been translated into dozens of
languages.
- "Trekkies," now
called "Trekkers," are the only fans listed by name in the Oxford English
Dictionary.
- The first U.S.
Space Shuttle, the "Enterprise," was given its name after NASA received 400,000
requests from StarTrek fans.
- A 1993 study from
Purdue University found that children learn more about science from StarTrek
than from any other source.
- StarTrek
conventions are held every weekend of every year in at least four different U.S.
cities, annually attracting more than 300,000 U.S. fans and an estimated
one million fans worldwide.
"I will forever be in his debt, for showing
us the way of life that could be ours if the rest of the world would try to live
together as one. The ideals of StarTrek are not out of reach if we all try to
emulate the model brought to us by Mr. Roddenberry. We are still a long way from
that, but we have started down that path and I hope we continue, far into the
future."[2]
Gene Roddenberry:
On StarTrek:
"Star Trek is my political philosophy, my
social philosophy, my racial philosophy, my overview on life and the human
condition"
On Women:
"I tried to get a woman as second in command,
but that failed. I also tried to have a fifty-fifty split of men and women
abroad the Enterprise. However, NBC turned the idea down because they thought
there would be too much hanky panky between the sexes. We argued, and we
eventually agreed on one-third women and two-thirds men. I thought to myself
that a one-third crew complement of healthy women could handle the two-thirds
men any day.
However, I did make a statement about women
by having them run around in little skirts. (...) Although they were wearing
these ridiculous little skirts, you have to
remember at the time that was a real badge of
freedom. That was women saying `I don`t have to be a little mousy house wife. I
can wear something attractive` (...)
Back then, I always thought that in the
future it won`t seem all that strange women are treated as
equals."
On Religion:
"I once paid attention to a sermon when I was
14 years old, and that was about the only time I did. I found the things being
talked about ridiculous. We should eat the body of Christ, and drink his blood?
I would still like to know how Jesus became someone to be eaten. I remember my
first impression was "This is a bunch of cannibals they`ve put me down among."
So for the rest of my teen life I let religion slide. I saw no point in adopting
it when it was so obviously phony."
On God:
"I believe we are all God, and God is the
equation of the universe. (...) I basically believe God equals
thought."
On the Human Race:
"I think of the human race as an eight or ten
year old child. They are lovable at their best, and despicable at their
worst-just like humans.(...) We are a young species. I think if we allow
ourselves a little development, understanding what we`ve done already, we`ll be
surprised what a cherishable, lovely group that humans can evolve
into."
On drugs:
"I believe the solution to the drug problem
is legalization. If not legalization, then decriminalization. In other words, I
believe we should make drugs a public health problem. I originally had this idea
back in the 1950`s when I was a cop, but I believe in it even more strongly
now."
__________________________________________________________________________
Sources:
1) Kevin Atkinson; A Man Behind StarTrek (Interview);
http://sunsite.unc.edu/kevina/pap456/roddenbe.htm; 12/10/97
2) Ralph Sander; Das StarTrek Univerum, Band 1; Munich,
1994
3) http://www.kristoffer.com/texts/stactors.txt
by Sonja Keerl, LK E,
12/16/97
Director`s cut ;-)
CREATOR OF THE STARTREK
SAGA
EUGENE WESLEY
RODDENBERRY
(1921 - 1991)
1. Life
1921 born in El Paso, Texas on August
19th
1941 graduated from LA City College
studied three years of college pre-law and then
transferred his academic interest to aeronautical engineering and qualified for
a pilot`s license.
volunteered for the U.S. Army Air
Corps and was ordered into training as a flying cadet
as the war began.
Emerging from Kelly Field, Texas, as
a Second
Lieutenant, Roddenberry was sent to the South Pacific
where he entered combat at Guadalcanal, flying B-17 bombers out of the
newly-captured Japanese airstrip, which became Henderson Field. He flew missions
against enemy strongholds at Bougainville and participated in the Munda
invasion. In all, he took part in 89
missions and sorties. He was decorated with
the Distinguished flying Cross and the Air
Medal. He was involved in a crash as a bomber pilot in
the South Pacific. His navigator and bombardier were killed, but he managed to
survive
1945 Commercial pilot for Pan
Am
Airlines He was in
another deadly crash in the Cyren Desert. A total of fourteen people died, and I
was the only surviving flight officer.
Roddenberry later received a Civil Aeronautics
commendation for his efforts during and after the crash. During this time, he
also studied literature at Columbia University.
Los Angeles police
officer as he found the drama of the streets
interesting
1953 Free lance author, Western "Have Gun
Will Travel"
1963 Roddenberry sells his first own series
"The Lieutenant"
1964 Making of "The Cage", first TOS pilot
NBC turned the pilot down. One of the things they did
not like was the woman as second in command. Well hell, not even the women in
the test audience bought it. They also didn`t like the Spock character, because
they thought he was too satanic-looking and would upset the women in the
television audience. So, they ordered a second pilot, a television first
1965 Making of "Where No Man Has Gone
Before", 2nd pilot
1966 StarTrek, The Original Series, was
launched Once on the air, however,
-l969 "Star Trek"
developed a loyal following and has since become the first television series to
have an episode preserved in the Smithsonian, where an 11-foot model of the
U.S.S. Enterprise is also exhibited on the same floor as the Wright brothers`
original airplane and Lindbergh`s "Spirit of St. Louis."
We have to thank Leonard Nimoy for the Vulcan Spock. The
original design of Spock was that he would be red, from Mars and would inject
energy in a place in his stomach.
1968 Uproar in the US: During the episode
"Plato`s Stepchildren": A white man kisses a black woman
1969
married on August
6 his 2nd wife Majel Barrett
("The Computer", "Nurse Chapel" from TOS and "Lwaxana Troi" in TNG and
DS9)
1977 He held three
honorary doctorate degrees: Doctor of
Humane Letters from Emerson College in Boston, Mass., Doctor of Literature from
Union College in Los Angeles
1981 Doctor of Science from Clarkson College
in Potsdam, New York
1986 Roddenberry`s
fans presented him with A star on the
Hollywood Walk of Fame, the first writer/producer to be
so honored.
1987 Making of "Encounter at Farpoint", TNG
pilot
TNG was launched
great success
Peabody Award for the "Best of the Best."
(TNG) To date, the series has garnered a total of
eleven prestigious Emmy awards.
1990 The March of
Dimes honored Roddenberry with the Jack
Benny Memorial Award for lifetime achievement
1991 On Thursday, October 24th
"Gene Roddenberry passed away and a world not so far away mourned the loss of
one of television`s foremost
pioneers."[3]
2. StarTrek
Series:
TOS -
The Original Series (1966 - 1969)
TNG -
The Next Generation (1987 - 1994)
DS9 - Deep Space Nine (1993 -
)
VOY -
Voyager (1994 - )
3. StarTrek
Movies
I. Star Trek: The Motion
Picture (1979)
II. The Wrath of Khan
(1982)
III. The Search for Spock
(1984)
IV. The Voyage Home (1986)
V. The Final Frontier
(1989)
VI. The Undiscovered Country
(1991)
VII. Generations (1994)
VII. First Contact (1996)
4. The
Message
- While making "Star
Trek," Roddenberry`s reputation as a futurist began to grow. His papers and
lectures earned him high professional regard in that field. He spoke on the
subject at NASA meetings, the Smithsonian Institution, Library of Congress
gatherings and top universities.
- Some of the Science
Fiction of StarTrek TOS is the science fact of today, some examples include:
compact voice-activated computers, mobile hand-held communicators, computerized
medical beds which help diagnose illness, and laser weapons. The famous
scientist Stephen Hawking is working on the Warp drive theory for years, since
he considers it to be possible.
- StarTrek is seen in
more than 100 countries and has been translated into dozens of
languages
- "Trekkies," now
called "Trekkers," are the only fans listed by name in the Oxford English
Dictionary.
- The first U.S.
Space Shuttle, the "Enterprise," was given its name after NASA received 400,000
requests from StarTrek fans.
- A 1993 study from
Purdue University found that children learn more about science from StarTrek
than from any other source.
- StarTrek
conventions are held every weekend of every year in at least four different U.S.
cities, annually attracting more than 300,000 U.S. fans and an estimated one
million fans worldwide.
"I will forever be in his debt, for showing
us the way of life that could be ours if the rest of the world would try to live
together as one. The ideals of StarTrek are not out of reach if we all try to
emulate the model brought to us by Mr. Roddenberry. We are still a long way from
that, but we have started down that path and I hope we continue, far into the
future."[4]
On StarTrek:
"Star Trek is my political philosophy, my
social philosophy, my racial philosophy, my overview on life and the human
condition"
On Women:
"I tried to get a woman as second in command,
but that failed. I also tried to have a fifty-fifty split of men and women
abroad the Enterprise. However, NBC turned the idea down because they thought
there would be too much hanky panky between the sexes. We argued, and we
eventually agreed on one-third women and two-thirds men. I thought to myself
that a one-third crew complement of healthy women could handle the two-thirds
men any day.
However, I did make a statement about women
by having them run around in little skirts. (...) Although they were wearing
these ridiculous little skirts, you have to
remember at the time that was a real badge of
freedom. That was women saying `I don`t have to be a little mousy house wife. I
can wear something attractive` (...)
Back then, I always thought that in the
future it won`t seem all that strange women are treated as
equals."
On Religion:
"I once paid attention to a sermon when I was
14 years old, and that was about the only time I did. I found the things being
talked about ridiculous. We should eat the body of Christ, and drink his blood?
I would still like to know how Jesus became someone to be eaten. I remember my
first impression was "This is a bunch of cannibals they`ve put me down among."
So for the rest of my teen life I let religion slide. I saw no point in adopting
it when it was so obviously phony."
On God:
"I believe we are all God, and God is the
equation of the universe. (...) I basically believe God equals
thought."
On the Human Race:
"I think of the human race as an eight or ten
year old child. They are lovable at their best, and despicable at their
worst-just like humans.(...) We are a young species. I think if we allow
ourselves a little development, understanding what we`ve done already, we`ll be
surprised what a cherishable, lovely group that humans can evolve
into."
On drugs:
"I believe the solution to the drug problem
is legalization. If not legalization, then decriminalization. In other words, I
believe we should make drugs a public health problem. I originally had this idea
back in the 1950`s when I was a cop, but I believe in it even more strongly
now."
__________________________________________________________________________
Sources:
1) Kevin Atkinson; A Man Behind StarTrek;
http://sunsite.unc.edu/kevina/pap456/roddenbe.htm; 12/10/97
2) Ralph Sander; Das StarTrek Univerum, Band 1; Munich,
1994
3) http://www.kristoffer.com/texts/stactors.txt
by Sonja Keerl, LK E,
12/15/97
[5] 1991, interviewed by Kevin
Atkinson
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