But he was also an insecure, misogynistic hack. Born in El Paso in 1921, Gene Roddenberry moved to Los Angeles to become a police officer. He married and had two children. Then World War II happened.
After working as a police officer and being stymied by network censors on "grounded" television series, Gene Roddenberry created Star Trek with a vision. Through sci-fi allegory, writers could ...