Gen Roddenberry's vision for humanity from the perspective of living in the 1950's, and 60's was that humanity was at peace in the twenty third century, away from the problems of those decades.
Mr Roddenberry did have affairs behind his wife's back.
He had served in conflict as a pilot, and was a police officer from 1949 until 1956. He left the Police to began writing his trek series, and then Andromeda, that never took off, not long after him at the end of the century.
He was seen as a visionary who would portray a world without national governments, a sort of fuddy duddy utopia essentially one person's view of the future, I guess intellectual masturbation. I personally believe in this vision, but to get there it does need space flight to be at the front of a nation, how ever with people believing in god and following religion, in all probability it won't ever happen.
He was agnostic. He was raised as a baptist, he was born in Texas state yet lived in California, the same place as Brent Spiner, who stared as Data on the TNG series. Some of those episodes in the early seasons were creative such as "Where no man has gone before" before the Hubble telescope even gave us views of the galaxy with more precision, slightly sexist title, but trek was never perfect, well the writing and perception, but like I've typed its one person's view of a fuddy wuddy future where the injustice of our time has vanished and humanity has become much more enlightened than we are in the real world.
I have to type, I liked more the 'Enterprise' series as it felt much more realistic than previous series's. I enjoyed one particular episode which was from season 3, "Carpenter street", it took the leading characters of the series back to the early twenty first century in 2004 from the year 2153 to chase a time travelling enemy. I like the contrast between that better future, and well the more tough love past or our present. "Is this how human beings treat each other in the twenty first century."? As Captain Archer's first officer says when Archer confronts the man kidnapping people and drugging them for money, as the enemy seeks to build a up DNA analysis for destruction of the species using a bio weapon.
How ever in one particular episode in season one Commander Tucker explains to his team "the boys at Jupiter will have this done...", I don't remember the time, concerning one working Phase Cannon for the ship as a Silent enemy attacks the ship without provocation and the standard torpedeos don't damage the ship as it returns more than once. Again that future still had male direction than a women leadership or engineers.
ENT does have a great soundtrack! I listened to one of the songs on youtube, during my reading of Curiosity Rover having landed safely at Gale crator last year.
"new Horizons" or known as "first flight"
Ofcourse that series was produced by Rick Berman and Branon Bragga who continued the franchise after Roddenberry.
The Scientist from Montana a decade after world war 3 won't be making his first warp flight in 2063 because he doesn't exist.
Its painfully sad, but just like the Biker gang video or whatever imperfection in life, stuff happens.
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