Roddenberry was still in charge;
Wesley was the middle name of Gene Roddenberry.
Roddenberry pleaded with NBC for another chance.
But Roddenberry knew there was an audience for it.
Roddenberry wanted Star Trek to reflect modern, progressive culture.
But from the get-go, Berman's relationship with Roddenberry was tumultuous.
Nearly everyone else did, however, and Berman finally talked Roddenberry into it.
When Roddenberry presented it to NBC, the programming executives were blown away.
Roddenberry also wasn't the best at managing the fragile egos of his writers.
In his youth, Gene Roddenberry was a lot like Captain Kirk-
always looking for adventure.
Having been rejected by the major TV studios, Roddenberry turned to a smaller one, Desilu.
Roddenberry was dismayed about the changes but elated about having a second chance,
so he compromised.
Macho Man In his youth, Gene Roddenberry was a lot like Captain Kirk-
always looking for adventure.
This in turn
resulted in the Star Trek feature films, which Roddenberry continued to produce and consult.
This, in turn,
resulted in the Star Trek feature films, on which Roddenberry continued to produce and consult.
I find it hard to imagine anyone saying the
same thing about the new crew of the Enterprise and Roddenberry.
NBC doubted that Barrett could
carry such a prominent role(and even thought Roddenberry had cast her because she was his mistress).
When he was auditioning for the role of the ship's engineer,
he went over various accents for Gene Roddenberry for the character.
That's when Roddenberry was told that he should talk to a young
man rising up through the ranks at Paramount: Rick Berman.
And from C.S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower novels, Roddenberry borrowed the idea of a courageous captain burdened by the duties of command.
Whereas Roddenberry made action shows,
Berman made PBS kids' shows such as Big Blue Marble, as well as the very intellectual documentary Space.
Due to slumping ratings after being moved to a graveyard time-slot,
creator Gene Roddenberry quit working on the show by the third season.
Roddenberry was increasingly suffering from heart trouble by the time the second season
began, although he still held sway over the writers and actors.
Roddenberry wanted Jeff Hunter to return as Captain Pike
and arranged to screen“The Cage” for him, reserving Desilu's projection room for March 25, 1965.
Roddenberry decided he needed someone who knew not only
how to get a show on the air but how to keep it on the air.
When he was auditioning for the role of the ship's engineer on Star Trek,
he went over various accents for Gene Roddenberry for the character.
When he was auditioning for the role of the ship's engineer on
Star Trek, he went over various accents for Gene Roddenberry for the character.
Gene Roddenberry sold Star Trek to NBC as a classic adventure drama;
he pitched the show as"Wagon Train to the Stars" and as Horatio Hornblower in Space.
Roddenberry agreed that Captain Kirk's“cowboy diplomacy” should
be toned down for the new show, but he didn't like Berman's choice for the role of Captain Picard: classically trained Patrick Stewart.
Roddenberry asked which he preferred, and Doohan replied"Well, if you want an
engineer, he better be a Scotsman because, in my experience, all the world's best engineers have been Scottish".