Rod Roddenberry
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| Rod Roddenberry | |
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| Birth name: | Eugene Wesley Roddenberry, Jr. |
| Gender: | Male |
| Date of birth: | 2 May 1974 |
| Roles: | Art department production assistant (uncredited) |
Eugene Wesley "Rod" Roddenberry Jr. (born 2 May 1974; age 39) 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.
Interactions with Star Trek
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Rod acted as executive producer and narrator of Trek Nation, a Star Trek documentary released in late 2011. [1]
He discussed his father Gene during an appearance in The Captains of The Final Frontier, a 2010 Star Trek documentary made for American television.
Rod 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. [2]
The "Trek Fish" variant of the "Jesus Fish" (Ichthys symbol) car bumper ornament was designed by Rod.
Rod was interviewed and introduced the Gene Roddenberry: Up Close And Personal video documentary release from 2006.
Other activitiesEdit
He wrote an episode of the science fiction series called Earth: Final Conflict, which was a project conceived by Gene Roddenberry in the 1970s and produced by Majel Barrett in Toronto starting in 1997.
Rod 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.
