American screenwriter Gene Roddenberry, who is credited with creating the Star Trek franchise, compared Star Wars movies to ...

As for Nichols, Roddenberry cast her in a history-making role as Star Trek’s Lieutenant Uhura. Ande Richardson, an assistant to Gene Coon who had worked for Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X ...

Rod Roddenberry celebrated a birthday as a child with a “Star Wars” cake, ordered by his dad, Gene Roddenberry, the creator of “Star Trek,” and his mother, Majel Barrett, an iconic “Star ...

the idea of the Enterprise crew’s adventures being adapted comes from Trek creator Gene Roddenberry himself. Roddenberry’s 1979 novelization of Star Trek: The Motion Picture begins with a ...