Roddenberry is lauded as a progressive ... College lecture gigs paid well. “Gene had a big part in the conventions early on,” says film producer Jon Povill. “Not just in terms of going ...

Nicholas Meyer's 1982 film "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" is generally regarded as the best of the 13 extant "Star Trek" ...

Why Gene Roddenberry Moved Star Trek's Spock From ... Even the planet's name follows the same convention as Mars; all the planets in our solar system (Earth excluded) are named after Roman gods ...

Rod Roddenberry celebrated a birthday as a child with a “Star Wars” cake, ordered by his dad, Gene Roddenberry, the creator of “Star Trek,” and his mother, Majel Barrett, an iconic “Star ...