Eugene Wesley Roddenberry was an American scriptwriter and producer. He is best known as the creator of what would become the science fiction universe of "Star Trek". He would also become one of the first people to be buried in space. Wikipedia
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A decorated B-17 pilot during World War II, Roddenberry flew commercially for Pan American Airways after the war while taking college writing classes. www.museum.tv/archives/etv/R/htmlR/roddenberry/roddenberr...
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During WWII he had a friend named Kim Noonien Singh; after the war Kim disappeared, and Gene used his name for some characters in the Star Trek series (Khan Noonien Singh from Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan (1982) and Noonien Soong from "Star Trek: The Next www.imdb.com/name/nm0734472/
The Roddenberry legacy also included such additions to English phraseology as "warp drive" as well as the massive fan phenomenon known as Trekkies. www.nndb.com/people/503/000022437/
To appreciate fully Star Trek and its significance, we need to understand the "creator" of the Star Trek "universe" -- Gene Roddenberry. www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/text/cri/cri-jrnl/web/crj014...