Gene Roddenberry was born on this day in 1921. I was doing research on something else when I found this tidbit of information. He was born in El Paso but his family only lived here a couple of years after he was born. He was the creator of Star Trek in the mid sixties and was involved in almost all of the Star Trek movies that came much later. Gene started out as a writer but held different jobs (including one as a policeman in the LAPD) while he waited for his writing career to give him enough money to eat. He was also an airline pilot. Many people have said he was difficult to work with. I never knew him personally. That's not him on the left - that's my grandpa. He was born in the eighteen hundreds.
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