One of the weapons in the Star Trek franchise are called phasers. Here's why Trek creator Gene Roddenberry gave them that ...

Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek legacy is multi-faceted, from the concept of a diverse future to creating the first multimedia sci-fi franchise. The post Celebrating Gene Roddenberry’s STAR TREK ...

Gene Roddenberry, as it turns out, was what you might call an “anti-religious secular pantheist.” He rejected structured religion and espoused a utopic, humanist vision of the future, ...

But Gene Roddenberry, the late “Star Trek” creator who was born 100 years ago on August 19, imagined our terrible present, too. Before he died in 1991 at age 70, ...

Ande Richardson, an assistant to Gene Coon who had worked for Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, says, “Gene Roddenberry was a sexist, manipulative person who disregarded women.” She ...

On May 12, the #thinkTREK campaign began sharing the top 100 quotes of Gene Roddenberry with one a day all the way up to his 100th birthday. Over 60 celebrities, creatives, and those in the ...

Gene Roddenberry was a World War II pilot. Roddenberry enlisted with the U.S. Army Air Corps on December 18, 1941—11 days after the attack on Pearl Harbor. He flew 89 missions during World War II.

So Gene Roddenberry was just a baby, barely two years old, when his family moved away from Texas. Any movie about his life would surely pick up in L.A., omitting his time in El Paso entirely.