Raised in Los Angeles, Roddenberry was an Army Air Force pilot during WWII, then a pilot for Pan Am before joining the Los Angeles Police Department, where he wrote speeches for the chief of ...

Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry (August 19, 1921–October 24, 1991) boldly went where no man had gone before, ... Roddenberry was a member of the Los Angeles Police Department.

Gene Roddenberry's One Big Star Trek Rule Created ... posited that Roddenberry's love of structure and order stemmed from his history in the military and from working as a Los Angeles police ...

Born in El Paso in 1921, Gene Roddenberry moved to Los Angeles to become a police officer. ... In 1949 he joined the Los Angeles Police Department, writing speeches for the chief.

Military veteran Gene Roddenberry is most famous for creating the ... Jan. 16, 1985, in Los Angeles. (Wally Fong/AP ... Roddenberry grew up respecting his father's profession as a police ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. It’s interesting, then, to consider the man behind the original ...

After Gene Roddenberry's death in the early '90s, Newsweek explored the universe the Star Trek mastermind created. This article, originally from Newsweek's Archives, is excepted from a Newsweek ...

The Gene Roddenberry foundation will award $1 million to an early-stage venture focused on harnessing artificial intelligence in service of humanity.

In 1966, 'Star Trek' creator Gene Roddenberry wrote a column explaining the scope of his ambitious space series — and why it aimed for much more "science" than "fiction.