Gene Roddenberry Quotes
'Star Trek' episodes always insisted that humanity is on its bumpy way to what will be a glorious future in the 23rd century, in which we will have left most of our old selfishness - and old hatreds and prejudices - far behind us.
Roddenberry, Gene. Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Pocket Books, 1979, Introduction.
Although chief executives of most other countries are commonly abused in the national legislature, Mexico had no had a serious opposition much less public derision of the President before then.
During the 1987 U.S. - Russian summit meeting in Washington DC police cracked down to scatter the prostitutes who usually worked the area frequented by the summit participants: a prostitute's advocacy group
Toleration of diversity of all kinds is a major tenet of the Bahai faith. As it is a relatively new religion its founder and early leaders had observed the history of religious, ethnic and ideological intolerance in the world and were determined to try and stop it. The Bahai for example are one of the few religions who do not discourage religious intermarriage and they encourage racial intermarriage.
Eugene Wesley Roddenberry was an American television screenwriter, producer and creator of Star Trek: The Original Series, and its sequel spin-off series Star Trek: The Animated Series and Star Trek: The Next Generation. Born in El Paso, Texas, Roddenberry grew up in Los Angeles, where his father was a police officer. Roddenberry flew 89 combat missions in the Army Air Forces during World War II, and worked as a commercial pilot after the war. Later, he followed in his father's footsteps and joined the Los Angeles Police Department, where he also began to write scripts for television.
