But there was also his darker sides - struggles with drugs and alcohol, infidelity, clashes with other executives and actors.
In 1966, he brought the world Star Trek, launching a franchise that has spawned numerous spin-offs and movies, and become a pop culture behemoth. District Attorney, before going on to contribute to a variety of series. While serving as an LAPD officer, he turned his attention writing for television, selling his first script in 1953 to a show called Mr. Roddenberry certainly lived an interesting and episodic time on the planet – a bomber pilot in B-17, he survived not only a plane crash from a mechanical failure, but post-war a commercial flight going down in the Syrian desert, where he rescued the Maharani of Phaltan from the wreck. With his son Rod Roddenberry and fellow Roddenberry Entertainment partner Trevor Roth looking to gear this one up, the project has Adam Mazer on script duty.
What better day for news of a planned biopic about Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry than what would have been his 100th birthday? Makes sense then that the company spawned from his work is announcing just such a project.
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