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Eugene Wesley "Rod" Roddenberry Jr. (born February 5, 1974) is an American television producer and the chief executive officer of Roddenberry Entertainment. He is the son of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry and Majel Barrett and is an executive producer on Star Trek: Discovery , Star Trek: Picard , Star Trek: Lower Decks , Star Trek: Prodigy ...
Oct 13, 2022 · Rod Roddenberry on his father, Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek legacy, the future of the franchise, William Shatner's comments, and the archives. He also spoke about whether 'Earth: Final...
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Eugene Wesley "Rod" Roddenberry Jr. is an American television producer and the chief executive officer of Roddenberry Entertainment. Roddenberry was born on born February 5, 1974 in Los Angeles, California to actress Majel Barrett and legendary science fiction writer and producer, Gene Roddenberry.
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Jan 5, 2024 · The famous Roddenberry family is headed to the final frontier. The DNA of " Star Trek " creator Gene Roddenberry and his wife, Majel Barrett-Roddenberry, as well as that of their son, Rod,...
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Eugene Wesley "Rod" Roddenberry Jr. (born 5 February 1974; age 50) is the only son of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry and his second wife, Majel Barrett-Roddenberry. He has two sisters, Darleen Roddenberry and Dawn Roddenberry, both from Gene Roddenberry's first marriage to Eileen Anita Rexroat. He has a wife, Heidi, and a son named Zale. Rodde...
Roddenberry acted as executive producer and narrator of Trek Nation, a Star Trek documentary released in late 2011.
He discussed his father Gene during an appearance in The Captains of The Final Frontier, a 2010 Star Trek documentary made for American television.
Roddenberry acted as a consultant on, advocate for, and promoter of the fan-made Star Trek: New Voyages series.
He worked as an uncredited Art Department production assistant on either Star Trek: The Next Generation or Star Trek: Deep Space Nine for at least a year in the mid-1990s. (X) Reportedly the registry number for the USS Defiant (NX-74205) was taken from Roddenberry's birthday (02/05/74), much as the registry of the USS Bonchune was taken from Robert Bonchune's birthday. (Star Trek Encyclopedia (4th ed., vol. 1, p. 196))
Roddenberry was interviewed in the second season episode of the Netflix series The Toys That Made Us that focused on Star Trek toys and models. In this interview he described how he made the model of the Constitution-class that was painted silver and then used as a set piece on various TNG episodes.
The "Trek Fish" variant of the "Jesus Fish" (Ichthys symbol) car bumper ornament was designed by Roddenberry.
He wrote the story for "Infection", an episode of Earth: Final Conflict, which was a project conceived by Gene Roddenberry in the 1970s and produced by Majel Barrett Roddenberry in Toronto, starting in 1997.
Roddenberry has also been involved with a large number of real-world science endeavors including The Ansari X-Prize, NASA, JPL, The Planetary Society, The Roddenberry Dive Team, and the Kennedy Space Center.
•TOS Season 3 DVD special feature, "Collectible Trek", interviewed on 3 August 2002
•TNG Season 1 Blu-ray special feature "Energized! Taking The Next Generation to the Next Level", 2012
•Star Trek: The True Story, 2013
•The Toys That Made Us: "Star Trek", 2018
•TRR: "The Impossible Box", 2020
•"The One with Rod Roddenberry" at MissionLogPodcast.com, a Roddenberry Star Trek podcast
May 5, 2021 · Gene Roddenberry posthumously made it to outer space when a series of missions flew with his ashes, but Rod recognizes that isn’t in the cards for most people living today. To scratch that itch for exploration, he’s become an avid scuba diver, “Very few of us are going to get to go into space,” Roddenberry recognized.
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