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Eugene Wesley " Rod " Roddenberry Jr. (born February 5, 1974) [1] 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 ...
- Eugene Wesley Roddenberry Jr., February 5, 1974 (age 49), Los Angeles, California, U.S.
- Television producer
Jan 5, 2024 · The DNA of " Star Trek " creator Gene Roddenberry and his wife, Majel Barrett-Roddenberry, as well as that of their son, Rod, is set to launch Jan. 8, on the debut liftoff of United...
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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 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
Roddenberry and Barrett had a son together, Eugene Jr., commonly referred to as Rod Roddenberry, in February 1974. They remained married for the rest of Roddenberry's life, and Roddenberry died by Barrett's side on October 24, 1991, at a doctor's office in Santa Monica, California.
Apr 27, 2022 · by Rod Roddenberry. April 27, 2022. Most people don’t know that my mother — “The First Lady of Star Trek” — loved horror movies. When I was a very young kid in the ‘70s, my mom, Majel ...
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Mar 28, 2022 · Roddenberry and Barrett married and had a son, Eugene “Rod” Roddenberry, who continues their legacy to this day. The Comic-Con Museum in San Diego is in the Star Trek spirit. The exhibit...
Aug 19, 2021 · August 19, 2021 marks the centennial of Gene Roddenberry. The creator of "Star Trek," who died in 1991, would have turned 100 this year. "Star Trek" predicted the future in many ways — even low ...
