Gene Roddenberry Net Worth

Gene Roddenberry's 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.
• 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.
• Normal television limits what you can do. With science fiction, you can exercise your imagination more. I fell in love with it.
• 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.
• We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing, all-powerful God, who creates faulty humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.

Interesting Facts about Gene Roddenberry

1. During World War II, he had a friend named Kim Noonien Singh; after the war Kim disappeared, and Gene used his name for some characters in the Star Trek series (Khan Noonien Singh from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) and Noonien Soong from Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987)) in hopes that Kim might recognize his name and contact him.
2. Some of his ashes sent up in a rocket, launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base.
3. Might have died in a house fire when still a toddler along with Bob, Doris, and their mother, but a milkman came along and woke them in time.
4. In 1943 while a United States Army Air Corps pilot, he flew B-17 bombers during World War II, his plane crashed on takeoff because of a mechanical failure, killing two crew members.
5. On June 19, 1947, he was deadheading (traveling while not on duty) on a Pan Am plane when it crashed in the Syrian desert, killing 7 of 9 crew and 7 of 26 passengers on board. He rescued the Maharani of Phaltan from the wreck. Rescue came in hours, but too late to save most of the luggage, and the victims' possessions, from local tribesmen and villagers.
6. During World War II, he wrote a song lyric "I Wanna Go Home", which became popular.
7. His first television script sale, in 1953, was the episode ''Defense Plant Gambling'' for the series Mr. District Attorney (1954). It was broadcast March 2, 1954. In the science-fiction field, his first was "The Secret Weapon of 117", broadcast March 6, 1956 on the anthology series "Chevron Hall of Stars".
8. He had many lovers and was sometimes overt about it. He and Majel Barrett had been lovers for years when he decided it was time to marry her and asked her to join him -- although he happened to be visiting Japan at the time. Gene did not adhere to any particular religion and since they were in Japan they chose to have a Shinto-Buddhist wedding on August 6, 1969. They regarded this as their real wedding, but his divorce was not yet final and they made it legal with a civil ceremony on December 29, 1969.
9. His old pseudonym, Robert Wesley, was used in the Star Trek (1966) episode "The Ultimate Computer" as the name of a character, portrayed by Barry Russo. There was also a reference to the same pseudonym in Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987) when he named the character of Dr. Beverly Crusher's son, Wesley Crusher, portrayed by Wil Wheaton.
10. Served on the Los Angeles Police Force from 1949 - 1956, badge number 6089. This information from "Star Trek Creator" by David Alexander.
11. Passed away within 48 hours of screening Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country (1991), the last Trek that revolved around his original characters.
12. Shared the same birthday as Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987) stars Jonathan Frakes and Diana Muldaur.
13. Father of actress Dawn Roddenberry and Darleen Anita Roddenberry who died on October 29, 1995 in an automobile accident.
14. Father, with Majel Barrett, of Rod Roddenberry.
15. While meeting with George Takei about a role on Star Trek (1966), Gene accidentally pronounced George's last name "Ta-kei", which is similar to the word expensive in Japanese "takai". He remembered the pronouncation by rhyming it with "okay".
16. Passed away on October 24, 1991, exactly ten years after Marina Sirtis' father.
17. During his years in the L.A.P.D., he was the spokesman for Police Chief W.H. Parker, the namesake for Parker Center, the headquarters of the Los Angeles Police Department.
18. Was close friends with Jack Webb and Ray Bradbury. Was friends with William Shatner.
19. Biography in: "American National Biography". Supplement 1, pp. 521-522. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
20. Grew up in Los Angeles, California.