Star Trek Gene Roddenberry 1986

@neonknights He said they didn't want them on the Bridge, not that they didn't want them on the show. And how do you know their account can be taken as the most true? How do you know they aren't bitter men airing out their personal problems with people who are no longer around to defend themselves? There have been lots of accounts of Star Trek and the making of, not all of them are as rough on Gene. How do you know this one if the most accurate? Just cuase it sounds the most accurate?

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I agree with the government, serious topics and ethical questions don't belong on TV. Only those who have received plastic surgery or have a lot of money should be on television.

This is the BIGGEST LIE ever. Both NBC and Desilu supported Roddenberry's decision of putting women and different kind of ethnicities on the show. They even wrote a letter to Gene, asking him to support them in their efforts to make NBC programmes showing racial equality and black people in important roles. The letter is reprinted in Herb Solow and Bob Justman's book, Inside Star Trek: The Real Story. That book debunks a lot of claims Roddenberry made up over the years, including that one.

im 19 years of age, after recently actully watching the shows i hope and dream that at some point that we can set aside all diffrances and achieve the impossable, i hope im there to see it...i realy do

This was aired the year I was born so I don't know much about Gene but I loved the J.J. Abrams reboot and if any of Roddenberry's ideas carried over then I'm a fan now as well.

@ucdconnectq closest it came was an episode the dealt with Archer reseting a time line and it showed the Twin Towers burning but that was about it.

@werdorino Gene Roddenberry was an atheist and he promoted a humanist message in his stories.

Oke for all Trekkies I think Rodenbery and ST are awesoe but they fail in 1 way compared to George Lucas and SW, 1. Ridenberry sold his story wherre Lucas made a eal to owwn both th e franchise abd the folms right from the beginning and omnly gave profit parts in exange for the fundinf, and got the money befior writing, so Lucas realy managed to be a fre artist, 2. ST seems a pretty scatered frabchise wth no real fovcues becaudse the orifginal premise of the 5 year msuion wwa never finsighed!!

@trekgeek1 well said thats exactly right

@Max9507 that's a true statement.

Gene may have been a man ahead of his time, but in this video he was about 4 seconds behind the video! FIX IT!

It's a shame that people have such skewed views of Trekkies/Trekkers. They think we're just a bunch of 35 year old lonely men living in our parents basement with pointy plastic ears on. If they really watched the show, they'd realize that we are a group of humans that dream of a day when we as humans meet our potential and finally move into a new era of discovery, peace and happiness, with pointy plastic ears on. Star Trek is a blue print on how society should be.

We've got a lot of visionaries among us. The problem is the lack of vision by those who can finance them. Have you ever watched 'The Pirates of Silicon Valley'? The banks (and Xerox) are probably kicking themselves about it today.

Not having watched much of Enterprise does anyone know if it had an episode that dealt with the invasion of Iraq or the 'War on Terror'?

The things he says are as relevant today as when he said them.

thank you for uploading this. a very interesting man, well ahead of his time.

he had such a kind soft voice, RIP

This man changed Sci-Fi and television forever.

I love this man! I'm reading 'The Last Conversation', a long, long interview with Mr. Rodenberry, and he is such a wonderfully insightful man.

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I totally agree. If more people just watched one episode in full length, I'm sure their view of the world would've changed. If they are open-minded that is. But sadly, Star Trek has that stigma that has repelled the viewers who need to watch Star Trek the most.

There is only one race, we are all humans, everything else in you're commen is ok. And yes, I know what you're pointing at, but I won't change my first comment line.

Dude , the unfortunate truth is , even if we were only one race on this entire planet , there would still be hatred and division. Humans have too much intelligence to create weapons and yet too little wisdom and control to manage their power.

The dubbing is off, but I really dig this interview!