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Arts & Humanities > Fantasy & Science Fiction Biography: Gene Roddenberry

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Gene Roddenberry was born 'Eugene Wesley Roddenberry' in El Paso, Texas, USA, on 19 August 1921. Known also as Robert Wesley, and affectionately nicknamed 'The Great Bird of the Galaxy', he would become most well known as the creator of the Star Trek franchise, before succumbing to heart failure at the age of 70 on 24 October 1991. "A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away." Growing up in Los Angeles, he graduating from Los Angeles City College before studying aeronautical engineering. In 1941, after o...

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