Gene Roddenberry

Eugene Wesley Roddenberry (August 19, 1921 – October 24, 1991) was born in El Paso, Texas, USA, and spent his boyhood in Los Angeles, California. He is best known as the creator of the science fiction television series Star Trek, and was one of the first people to be buried in space.

External links

• Eugene Wesley "Gene" Roddenberry
• Roddenberry's original March 1964 pitch outline for Star Trek
• Originally published in The Humanist, March/April 1991
• Strange New Worlds: The Humanist Philosophy of Star Trek by Robert Bowman, Christian Research Journal, Fall 1991, pp. 20 ff.
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