When Gene Roddenberry was asked by Paramount to develop ... The episode featured Spock seemingly defecting from the Federation to the Romulan Star Empire. Only he wasn't defecting.

No one is more responsible for this sense of novelty than Star Trek’s creator, Gene Roddenberry, whose posthumous reputation more closely resembles that of a religious figure than a Hollywood ...

Rod Roddenberry celebrated a birthday as a child with a “Star Wars” cake, ordered by his dad, Gene Roddenberry, the creator of “Star Trek,” and his mother, Majel Barrett, an iconic “Star ...