The first official "Star Trek" convention was held in September 1972, and show creator Gene Roddenberry began showing ... last minute that writer Alan Dean Foster was able to turn in a draft ...

Alan Dean Foster, who wrote an uncredited draft of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, says: By then I’d worked with Gene Roddenberry and George Lucas. In a nutshell, Roddenberry was standard ...

Gene Roddenberry, the creator of “Star Trek,” and his mother, Majel Barrett, an iconic “Star Trek” character and voice of the computer. “If you are talking about the ages of 5 ...