Gene Roddenberry spent his boyhood in Los Angeles and was educated at L.A. City College and U.C.L.A. During World War II he served in the Army Air Corps as a second lieutenant, flying B-17 bombers out of Guadalcanal. During this time he began selling...

Gene Roddenberry was the creator of a genuine twentieth-century cultural phenomenon: the Star Trek television series. It aired for three seasons between 1966 and 1969 before its cancellation, but went on to thrive in syndication. By the end of the...

Gene Roddenberry sits with creatures from his television series Star Trek, the first television series to have an episode preserved in the Smithsonian...

Eugene Wesley "Gene" Roddenberry, (August 19, 1921 - October 24, 1991) was an American screenwriter and producer. He became best known as the creator of what would become the science fiction universe of Star Trek. He would also become one of the first...

He created a future of hope and progress, where people of diverse races and planets worked together, and where there was still room for romance and daring. For a quarter-century, Gene Roddenberry, who died last week, took millions of television viewers along on the...

Roddenberry, 70, dies; creator of Star Trek The film and television industries lost one of their most creative minds with the death Oct. 24 of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry. The writer and producer, 70, suffered a cardiac arrest in Santa...

A piece of outer space named for George Takei is in kind of a rough neighborhood for somebody who steers a starship: an asteroid belt.An asteroid between Mars and Jupiter has been renamed 7307 Takei in honor of the actor, best known for his role...

The cremated remains of actor James Doohan, who portrayed engineer "Scotty" on "Star Trek," and of Mercury astronaut Gordon Cooper soared into suborbital space Saturday aboard a rocket.It was the first successful launch from Spaceport America, a commercial spaceport being developed in the southern New...