Where it all began: Gene and Majel Roddenberry

Forty-eight years ago, Eugene Wesley Roddenberry created a franchise that eventually became a world-wide phenomenon: Star Trek. Originally named "Wagon Train to the Stars", Star Trek officially premiered on September 8th, 1966. 

Initially, the show only ran for three seasons and was cancelled. Fans from all over the country wrote to into NBC demanding that the show be brought back. They went so far as to place stickers (see below) on the cars of executives in the parking lot (as told in William Shatner's Star Trek Memories):

NBC executives eventually got the message and Star Trek returned to the screen. Twelve years later, Gene developed a script for a proposed series that would include members of the original cast entitled "Star Trek: Phase 2", however this was promptly rejected by the studio and re-worked into the two-hour feature film entitled "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" which was released in theaters in 1978. 

Mr. Roddenberry's vision of Star Trek was a future earth that was void of war of (between humans), poverty, disease, hunger and prejudice. Based on his experiences as a WWII bomber pilot and a Los Angeles police officer in the turbulent times of the national Civil Rights Movement, he wanted to create a show that gave people a vision of a better future - and Star Trek has done just that.

 

 After a twenty-seven year marriage to his first wife ended in divorce, Gene married Majel Barrett. She went on to portray the First Officer of the Enterprise under Captain Christopher Pike in the original series pilot. NBC did not approve of a female first officer, so she then played the character of the ship's nurse, Nurse Christine Chapel, who had a serious crush on Spock. She also portrayed the voice of the computer on three Star Trek series: Star Trek: The Next Generation(TNG), Star Trek: Deep Space Nine(DS9), Star Trek: Voyager. She also created the popular character Lwaxana Troi several episodes of TNG & DS9 as the colorful mother of Counselor Deanna Troi. 

 

 Both Gene and Majel have touched the heart of millions and though they are no longer with us, their legacy lives on.

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