#roddenberry

[ashleywritesstuff]

What makes a good Vulcan Eyebrow Raise? We break it down in the next Roddenberry BEAM episode! Bonus: I helped write this one!

[myidic]

Roddenberry: Jim and Spock are totally bros just being regular hetero bros.

Also literally Roddenberry, in the novelization of The Motion Picture:

[swedebeast]

[tricorderreading]

Star Trek: The New Voyages

A preface from Gene Roddenberry in the first book published of stories written by fans! As some Trekkies know, it was actually fan interest in the franchise that revived Star Trek for the TOS movies!

(every fic where kirk and spock kiss is creator approved! /j)

Also, a message from the publishing office in their Acknowledgments page!

The asterisk is actually they're address at the bottom of the page, where you were encouraged to send two copies of your manuscript 😄

[geekysteven]

Network executive: okay so it's astronauts who have adventures? That sounds simple and easy to market

Gene Roddenberry:

[Image description Comic book panel with Werewolf Jones saying "IT'S GOING TO GET WEIRD...I'M GOING TO MAKE THIS WEIRD."]

[roughridingrednecks]

Roddenberry

[padnick]

“You meet a godlike alien, what do you do?”

Wells: study it.

Lovecraft: fear it.

Roddenberry: befriend it.

Kirby: punch it in its stupid face.

[blackswaneuroparedux]

If man is to survive, he will have learned to take a delight in the essential differences between men and between cultures. He will learn that differences in ideas and attitudes are a delight, part of life's exciting variety, not something to fear.

- Gene Roddenberry

The Star Trek franchise today has moved away from the classical liberalism that rooted the original Trek storylines under Roddenberry. That series (most of the time) put over a good story well told ahead of any in your face political messaging. It inspired people to be their best selves despite their differences and faults. Roddenberry was a visionary of his time in the 1960s.

It’s a galaxy away from today’s re-booted Star Trek franchise. The message comes before the story. It’s more concerned to preach ahead of any original stories with any respect to story structure, plot, or character development. Nor does it share Roddenbery’s classical liberalism but a more authoritarian woke message of confomity of ideology than truly respecting differences in culture. It’s why the Trek franchise is burning on the dumpster fire of failing ‘made in Hollywood’ shows that haven’t attracted an audience.