Why Gene Roddenberry Abandoned the Original ‘Star Trek’ and How It Changed the Show’s Future

By the spring of 1968, Star Trek had become something television had rarely seen before: a series whose viewers refused to ...
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The Lost Original ‘Star Trek’ Pilot, ‘The Cage,’ That Nearly Launched a Very Different Series

In television history, few pilots have had a stranger journey than the first attempt at Star Trek. Today, the 1964 pilot episode “The Cage” is widely regarded as a landmark in sci-fi TV—a serious, ...
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Done With Star Trek? Try These Other Gene Roddenberry SF Shows

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After the travesty that has been Starfleet Academy, Star Trek fans are abandoning the franchise and looking for something else to ...
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After Star Trek, Gene Roddenberry Wrote the Plot to a Sci-Fi Masterpiece That Challenged an ’80s Classic

The success of Star Trek: The Original Series, arguably, pigeonholed Gene Roddenberry with his works afterward. His wasn't galactic battles, robots, and spaceship dogfights, but rather a hopeful ...