They thought I was my father.To have them say about my father – that he held such thoughts when they knew him – was exiting.It made me proud that, in spite of not being formally educated, he had dreamed such dreams." ( The Humanists, Vol. They thought they had discovered my father and what he was doing long after he came back from the Great War. 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.Eugene Wesley Roddenberry, from personal conversations with Gene in 1990 at La Costa, CA (as cited by Susan Sackett, used with permission) Sometimes it goes into ugliness, but, in all though, it is a beauty.
" I have nothing but admiration for this silly race of ours.
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