![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() They had watched Star Trek, saw my name, and wrote that they could have predicted that I would have done something like Star Trek because I talked of such futuristic things when they had met me on my way to Europe to fight in World War I. ( Inside Star Trek: The Real Story, 1997, p 14) Still, he had a begrudging respect for his father who, self-taught and stemming from a dirt poor background, possessed a keen intellect and an uncanny ability to see things to come, and only shortly before his father's death, Roddenberry came to see his father in a new light, ironically through Star Trek, " Two elderly ladies wrote from Jacksonville, Florida when the original series was on NBC. His father was a World War I veteran and a police officer, whom he described as a "bigoted Texan". Roddenberry was born in El Paso, on 19 August 1921 to Caroline Glen Roddenberry and Eugene Edward Roddenberry ( 28 August 1896 – 4 December 1969 age 73), and spent his childhood in the city of Los Angeles. more Roddenberry quotes History Early life. ![]()
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