Tag: Gene Roddenberry
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10 Highest-Rated Star Trek Shows, According to Rotten Tomatoes
Created by Gene Roddenberry, classic sci-fi series Star Trek first premiered on NBC in the 1960s with its optimistic view of the future, where races and even different species work alongside each other peacefully. The series has since become a huge franchise and pop-culture phenomenon. Although it only ran for three seasons, its popularity exploded…
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Why Star Trek Cut Beverly Crusher From The Next Generation Season 2
In the first season of “Star Trek: The Next Generation,” the chief medical officer on board the U.S.S. Enterprise-d was Dr. Beverly Crusher (Gates McFadden), a fearlessly moral, mature character who was already at the peak of her professional career. Dr. Crusher was a great character as she was always eager to speak her mind…
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14 Times Star Trek Broke The Mold
The 1967 revision of the “Star Trek” writer’s guide starts by asking the reader a simple question: “Can you find the major ‘Star Trek‘ format error in the following ‘teaser’ from a story outline?””Star Trek” is a franchise that comes with many rules and dictums, many derived from its late creator, Gene Roddenberry. Other times…
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The Death Of Star Trek’s Gene Roddenberry Sparked An Eternal Deep Space Nine Debate
“Star Trek” creator Gene Roddenberry died on October 24, 1991, at the age of 70. It was pretty widely known that Roddenberry widely used cocaine, quaaludes, methamphetamines, and a variety of other recreational drugs, a fact discussed tastefully and frankly in Joel Engel’s 1994 biography “Gene Roddenberry: The Myth and the Man Behind Star Trek.”…
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Gene Roddenberry Originally Had No Interest In One Of Star Trek’s Most Famous Characters
The world changed a lot in the 20 years that “Star Trek” was off-air. The Cold War was all but over when “The Next Generation” began airing in 1987. So, it made sense to reimagine the Klingons, who during “The Original Series” had been the Ussr stand-ins to the Federation’s America. Mark A. Altman and…
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Star Trek’s Gene Roddenberry Always Regretted Cutting One Character From The Show
There is no in-universe explanation for the disappearance of Yeoman Janice Rand (Grace Lee Whitney), an enlisted officer often seen on the bridge of on the U.S.S. Enterprise. Yeoman Rand appeared in eight episodes of the original “Star Trek” series, usually sporting an elaborate beehive hairdo. The story goes that Whitney was cast in “Star…
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A Lying Star Trek Producer Tried To ‘Sabotage’ Wil Wheaton’s Career
The start of “Star Trek: The Next Generation” was a difficult and tempestuous time. Many Trekkies will be able to tell you the series of events: “Star Trek: The Motion Picture” wasn’t the enormous hit that Paramount wanted when the film was released in 1979, and “Star Trek” creator Gene Roddenberry was uninvited from participating…
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Why Khan Noonien Singh Casts A Shadow Over The Entire Star Trek Universe
According to its own mythology, the utopia of “Star Trek” had to be earned. Sometime between the present day and the franchise’s idyllic future, several destructive wars will break out, causing humankind to experience a reckoning. Recall that Trek creator Gene Roddenberry was born in 1921, so he had very sharp memories of World War…
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The Enterprise’s Lighting Is The ‘Mood Board’ For Each Episode Of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
In the rarely-used lyrics for Alexander Courage’s original “Star Trek” theme song — lyrics which were written by Gene Roddenberry so he could say he co-wrote the song and leech off half the royalties — a plaintive lover coos, “Beyond the rim of the star-light, my love is wand’ring in star-flight.”Frankly, the lyrics to the…
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Protocol 12 Opens Up The Darkest Corners Of The Star Trek Universe
This article discusses spoilers from the latest episode of “Strange New Worlds.”Gene Roddenberry envisioned “Star Trek” as a utopian paradise, famously mandating that “The Original Series” contain an absolute minimum of conflict — none of it originating from within the Federation itself. After all, why would enlightened beings in the distant future ever come up…