![]() Pan Am, Roddenberry moved to Los Angeles to become a television writer in the 1950s. ![]() Though he grew out of his youthful shell to embark on a varied and adventurous early career, he never lost his appreciation of the genre. Growing up in El Paso, Texas, as an isolated and sickly boy who sought temporary refuge from his unhappy circumstances in fantasy, Roddenberry discovered science fiction. Though Roddenberry died in 1991, the utopian future he envisioned would continue to thrill millions of "Trekkies," as fans are known, via print, television, and cinema. There is even a Star Trek- inspired "language": Klingon. By the end of the 1990s, the various Star Trek manifestations included four live-action television series, one animated television series, nine feature films, and countless novels, short stories, technical manuals, magazines and fanzines, comic books, fan conventions, and Internet sites. It aired for three seasons between 19 before its cancellation, but went on to thrive in syndication. Gene Roddenberry was the creator of a genuine twentieth-century cultural phenomenon: the Star Trek television series. ![]()
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