See below for our thorough review of both titles. Now Warner Brothers has made Genesis II and Planet Earth available via their video-on-demand DVD program. Three other spinoff series would follow, the most recent, Enterprise, debuted in 2001.In the 1970s, between the end of Star Trek The Original series and the first Star Trek feature film, Gene Roddenberry developed a number of sci-fi TV pilots, which aired as TV movies, but never made it to series.

* Star Trek became a motion picture in 1978, leading to a number of movie sequels and prompting a popular new series, Star Trek: The Next Generation, in the late 1980s. Internet ResourcesĮugene Wesley 'Gene Roddenberry.' Ed. Whitfield, Stephen E., and Gene Roddenberry. See also Burial (volume 1) Careers in Writing, Photography, and Filmmaking (volume 1) Entertainment (volume 1) Star Trek (volume 4). A year later a canister of his ashes was taken into space aboard the space shuttle Columbia. While making Star Trek, * Roddenberry gained a reputation as a futurist, speaking on the subject at universities, the Smithsonian, meetings of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and Library of Congress gatherings. The first space shuttle was named Enterprise in honor of this fictional spacecraft. Enterprise is also exhibited on the same floor as the Wright brothers' original airplane. The series developed a loyal following and was the first television series to have an episode preserved in the Smithsonian Institution, where a 3.3-meter (11-foot) model of the U.S.S. Roddenberry's creation, the series Star Trek, debuted in 1966.

He joined the Los Angeles Police Department to gain life experiences and soon sold scripts to such shows as Goodyear Theater, Dragnet, and Have Gun Will Travel. Back in the United States, he went to Hollywood intending to write for television.

During World War II, he took part in eighty-nine missions and sorties and was decorated withthe Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal.ĭuring the war Roddenberry began to write, selling stories to flight magazines. In 1941 he trained as a flying cadet in the U.S. Born in El Paso, Texas, on August 19, 1921, Roddenberry was a pre-law student in college for three years before becoming interested in aeronautical engineering. Gene Roddenberry, creator of the television series Star Trek, saw space as a place for learning new ideas and ways of thinking.

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