Gene Roddenberry's love of structure informed much of Star ... Roddenberry's love of structure and order stemmed from his history in the military and from working as a Los Angeles police officer.

When Roddenberry's service ended, he spent four years as a civilian pilot for Pan American World Airways but became an officer with the Los Angeles Police Department in 1949.

Roddenberry flew a bomber in the Air Force, worked as a plane crash investigator, and even survived two plane crashes himself. After serving as an L.A. police officer, he became an Emmy Award ...

The flight's Third Officer, Eugene Wesley Roddenberry, of River Edge, New Jersey, purser Anthony Volpe and stewardess Jane Bray helped evacuate the wrecked airliner. "We who could jumped out.