Gene Roddenberry was an extraordinary person. His life’s story would be worth telling, even if he never created Star Trek.
Gene was a B-17 pilot in World War II and survived not one but two crashes! After the War, he signed on with Pan Am as a commercial pilot. Engine problems resulted in a third crash on the Syrian desert. Twenty-six-year-old Roddenberry saved his passengers by walking across the desert to get help.
After leaving Pan Am, Gene worked as a LAPD police officer. He was a traffic cop riding a motorcycle, and later became the Chief’s speech writer. It was that experience that led him to TV in the mid-1950s.
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