As for ``warts,'' Alexander treats Roddenberry's compulsive womanizing as a lovable idiosyncrasy he also presents without details a list of six science fiction writers who worked for Roddenberry on Star Trek but would no longer do so. Title: STAR TREK CREATOR: THE AUTHORIZED BIOGRAPHY OF GENE RODDENBERRY Author Name: Alexander, David Edition: First Printing Location Published: New York. The author perhaps relies too much on letters and notes at times, and it makes for tedious reading. Then followed a series of movies starting in 1979 and another TV series, Star Trek: The Next Generation, beginning in 1987, followed by Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. The author does an excellent and thorough job exploring Gene's early years, his upbringing, his service in WW II, his heroism as a commercial pilot for Pan Am and his remarkable journey creating this enduring franchise. In September 1987, Star Trek: The Next Generation continued the legend that Gene Roddenberry began 25 years prior. While the original Star Trek series lasted for three years and lost money every year until 1969, when it was cancelled, by 1972 it was a huge hit in syndication.
In tracing his subject's career in the Army Air Corps in WW II, as a Pan Am pilot and member of the Los Angeles Police Department, the author shows Roddenberry as a brave and adventurous man who proved to be hardworking and tenacious as well. The result is a panegyric in the sharpest possible contrast to Joel Engel's Gene Roddenberry (Nonfiction Forecasts, Mar. Alexander was editor of the Humanist when Roddenberry (1921-1991) chose him as his biographer. Gene Roddenberry’s son Rod Roddenberry is producing with Trevor Roth the duo serves as executive producers on current series Star Trek: Discovery and Star Trek: Picard.
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