Trekkies will be able to tell you that "Star Trek" creator Gene Roddenberry was notoriously ... military and from working as a Los Angeles police officer. Read more: Why Khan Noonien Singh Casts ...

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.

On August 19, on what would have been Gene Roddenberry’s hundredth birthday ... and even worked as a Los Angeles police officer, all before getting into TV writing. His is an epic tale that ...

The son of a Los Angeles police officer, Roddenberry had served in ... Clocking in at 53 pages long, Gene Roddenberry's story bible for the Picard-helmed mission is a wondrous thing to behold ...

Star Trek creator Gene ... Roddenberry walked away with two broken ribs. “We can consider it as being very lucky,” he later wrote to his parents. Roddenberry was a member of the Los Angeles ...

Gene Roddenberry is most famous for creating ... Born in Texas, Roddenberry grew up respecting his father's profession as a police officer. Although he scored a high grade on a college entrance ...

Its creator, Gene Roddenberry probably had no idea this ... After serving as an L.A. police officer, he became an Emmy Award-winning Hollywood script writer and was the first writer to get a ...

But Gene Roddenberry took his first stab at sci ... writing by acting as a liaison for the LAPD, when he worked as a police officer in the early 1950s, to the show “Dragnet.” ...

After Gene Roddenberry's death in the early '90s, Newsweek explored the universe the Star Trek mastermind created. This article, originally from Newsweek's Archives, is excepted from a Newsweek ...

A biopic based on the life of the late “Star Trek” creator Gene ... Roddenberry was an Army Air Force pilot during WWII, then a pilot for Pan Am before joining the Los Angeles Police ...