![]() ![]() In the end the stress of his creation helped hasten his demise…along with his taste for drugs and alcohol. “Star Trek Creator” follows in great detail Roddenberry's career in television and film including the struggles he had to retain control of his most famous creation. It is this, of course, that he is best known for. ![]() Applying for the Los Angeles Police Department he became Chief of Police's speech writer though a career as a writer was calling him as he started writing for various television programs. After the war he became a Pan Am pilot including surviving another plane crash. He obtained his pilots licence and joined the US Air Force during the second world war where he became a bomber pilot then, after an accident, became an plane crash investigator. In college aiming to follow in the footsteps of his father he studied police sciences. In this biography of Gene Roddenberry we are taken through the life of this extraordinary man. Star Trek Creator: The Authorized Biography of Gene Roddenberry by David Alexander ![]()
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