Star Trek Gene Roddenberry 1986

[starscreamdkmo]

ok blond bith look familar

[jas16899]

I agree with the government, serious topics and ethical questions don't belong on TV. Only those who have received plastic surgery or have a lot of money should be on television.

[neonknights]

This is the BIGGEST LIE ever. Both NBC and Desilu supported Roddenberry's decision of putting women and different kind of ethnicities on the show. They even wrote a letter to Gene, asking him to support them in their efforts to make NBC programmes showing racial equality and black people in important roles. The letter is reprinted in Herb Solow and Bob Justman's book, Inside Star Trek: The Real Story. That book debunks a lot of claims Roddenberry made up over the years, including that one.

[ThirdRAILKink]

@neonknights

He said they didn't want them on the Bridge, not that they didn't want them on the show. And how do you know their account can be taken as the most true? How do you know they aren't bitter men airing out their personal problems with people who are no longer around to defend themselves? There have been lots of accounts of Star Trek and the making of, not all of them are as rough on Gene. How do you know this one if the most accurate? Just cuase it sounds the most accurate?

[ZillaMech]

im 19 years of age, after recently actully watching the shows i hope and dream that at some point that we can set aside all diffrances and achieve the impossable, i hope im there to see it...i realy do

[SolidSnake032486]

This was aired the year I was born so I don't know much about Gene but I loved the J.J. Abrams reboot and if any of Roddenberry's ideas carried over then I'm a fan now as well.

[reviewreviewer1]

Oke for all Trekkies I think Rodenbery and ST are awesoe but they fail in 1 way compared to George Lucas and SW, 1. Ridenberry sold his story wherre Lucas made a eal to owwn both th e franchise abd the folms right from the beginning and omnly gave profit parts in exange for the fundinf, and got the money befior writing, so Lucas realy managed to be a fre artist, 2. ST seems a pretty scatered frabchise wth no real fovcues becaudse the orifginal premise of the 5 year msuion wwa never finsighed!!

[ajcusn]

Gene may have been a man ahead of his time, but in this video he was about 4 seconds behind the video! FIX IT!

[trekgeek1]

It's a shame that people have such skewed views of Trekkies/Trekkers. They think we're just a bunch of 35 year old lonely men living in our parents basement with pointy plastic ears on. If they really watched the show, they'd realize that we are a group of humans that dream of a day when we as humans meet our potential and finally move into a new era of discovery, peace and happiness, with pointy plastic ears on. Star Trek is a blue print on how society should be.

[TheGlenn9]

@trekgeek1 well said thats exactly right

[fatkinson1954]

We've got a lot of visionaries among us. The problem is the lack of vision by those who can finance them. Have you ever watched 'The Pirates of Silicon Valley'? The banks (and Xerox) are probably kicking themselves about it today.

[ucdconnectq]

Not having watched much of Enterprise does anyone know if it had an episode that dealt with the invasion of Iraq or the 'War on Terror'?

[racefan32]

@ucdconnectq closest it came was an episode the dealt with Archer reseting a time line and it showed the Twin Towers burning but that was about it.

[TheChronicOne]

The things he says are as relevant today as when he said them.

[neeraj2608]

thank you for uploading this. a very interesting man, well ahead of his time.

[JackJeckel81]

he had such a kind soft voice, RIP

[TheSecondEvolution]

This man changed Sci-Fi and television forever.

[voiceofopinion]

I love this man! I'm reading 'The Last Conversation', a long, long interview with Mr. Rodenberry, and he is such a wonderfully insightful man.

[TheChronicOne]

Good............... Show.............

[Tony211169]

The dubbing is off, but I really dig this interview!

[pigbigtig]

Eugene Wesley Roddenberry was a great man.

His creation of Star Trek leaves us with his vision and a way of thinking, of a perfect society ,with no human differences, and a perfect future where people live and work for a better future.

If only more people have watched his creation, I believe we wouldn't be in todays mess. Too bad it isn't so.

[MrPragmatism]

A true legend, we need more compassionate humans like Gene a true inspiration for all, he is gone but never forgotten. RIP.

Thank you very much for sharing this video with us.

[chuck7309]

Dude , the unfortunate truth is , even if we were only one race on this entire planet , there would still be hatred and division. Humans have too much intelligence to create weapons and yet too little wisdom and control to manage their power.

[pigbigtig]

There is only one race, we are all humans, everything else in you're commen is ok.

And yes, I know what you're pointing at, but I won't change my first comment line.

[uzutake]

I totally agree. If more people just watched one episode in full length, I'm sure their view of the world would've changed. If they are open-minded that is. But sadly, Star Trek has that stigma that has repelled the viewers who need to watch Star Trek the most.

[Filomatia]

Great Interview!

[TheChronicOne]

Good Show.

[TheChronicOne]

Good show!

[Max9507]

Gene was ahead of his time we need more people like him.

[TheChronicOne]

No doubt.

[athathoth01]

@Max9507 that's a true statement.

[vulcanaudio]

Interesting!

[DieHappyFilms]

That was awesome!

[TheChronicOne]

Nice.

[galaxyrainguy]

It's interesting to note that Star Trek presented the expanded universe concept much more solidly than any previous science fiction concept, and although it pleads atheism as it's spine has far to many relgious concepts hidden in psychologic and cosmologic metaphorisms and the elusive creative gel is insistant upon creative boundaries and expressive foundations are incomparable and should never be forgotten.

[werdorino]

bang on man! I always noticed how in bits of dialogue star trek would sometimes try and play up atheist ideals but when you read between the lines and got into it the messages and themes of star trek had some deep christian/theological things going on

[Pilaf1984]

@werdorino Gene Roddenberry was an atheist and he promoted a humanist message in his stories.

[drunkenpeter99]

You know, Gene Roddenberry was made aware of the concept of Deep Space Nine before his death.

[Superphilipp]

I think he'd have a real problem about the treatment of religion on Deep Space 9 though. I'm not saying it's not a great show (it's my favourite of all Star Trek series), but it is striking how Trek turned from an atheistic approach to "all religions are true".

[guycab]

Not sure about this. Rodenberry is best described as a skeptic. There was tangible evidence throughout that series that the beings the Bajorans worshiped actually existed. The show never endorsed "blind" faith per se, although they talked about faith often.

[Supenmanu]

Did you hear what Roddenberry said? Star Trek is simply Gulivers Travels, but instead of Islands they got Planets... cause if you gonna bring social critisism... if you set it on some fictitious island or planet, it's not gonna offend anyone, and your publication won't get banned, and you can say things that you ordinarily wouldn't be allowed to say (-:

[Goatmon]

Very well put.

I'd heard about Gulliver's Travels, but it wasn't until I saw a movie (and I still need to find the book) that it became apparent that the entire thing was a huge criticism on society.

[hutsell]

Disorienting in an interesting way.

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We're listening to a discussion that took place 20 years ago while they're talking about something that took place 20 years ago.

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The illuminating interview (somewhat staged, which was a good thing) nicely touched on how Star Trek's scripts related to what took place 40 years ago in the late 60's.