• Nicknamed the "Great Bird of the Galaxy," Gene Roddenberry was an American writer and producer who was best known for creating the Star Trek franchise.

• Fast Facts

  1. Birth: August 19, 1921
  2. Birthplace: El Paso, Texas
  3. Died: October 24, 1991
  4. Full name: Eugene Wesley Roddenberry
  5. Awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and Air Medal (World War II)
  6. Flew for Pan Am Airlines
  7. Married Twice: Eileen Rexroat | Majel Barrett
  8. Noted Series: Star Trek | Earth: Final Conflict | Andromeda
  9. Ashes sent up in a rocket that was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base
  10. In 1943, while a U.S. Army Air Corps pilot, his plane crashed on takeoff due to a mechanical failure - killing two crew members.

• Quotes

  • "A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away." - Gene Roddenberry

  • "I have felt many times trapped by "Star Trek." It cost me dearly. It won't anymore, because I've come to grips with what it is and where it fits in my life." - Gene Roddenberry

  • "Normal TV limits what you can do. With science fiction, you can exercise your imagination more. I fell in love with it." - Gene Roddenberry

  • "I wish I had more control, more like Edgar Rice Burroughs had, but I'm a realist, too. I work in television. I don't know that I would want to spend the rest of my life controlling my characters." - Gene Roddenberry

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