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| death_place = Santa Monica, California, U.S. | death_cause = Heart failure | education = Franklin High School | alma_mater = Los Angeles City College | home_town = Los Angeles, California | parents = Eugene Edward Roddenberry (18961969) Caroline "Glen" Goleman (19041998) | spouse = Eileen-Anita Rexroat (19421969) Majel Barrett (1969–his death, 1991) | children = Dawn Roddenberry Darleen Roddenberry-Bacha Rod Roddenberry | module = }} Eugene Wesley "Gene" Roddenberry (August 19, 1921 – October 24, 1991) was an American television screenwriter, producer and futurist best remembered for creating the original ''Star Trek'' television series.〔Alexander (1995): p. 204〕 He was born in El Paso, Texas, but grew up in Los Angeles, California where his father worked as a police officer. While at school, the young Roddenberry majored in police science and became interested in aeronautical engineering. He obtained a pilot's license through the Civilian Pilot Training Program. Following his graduation, he signed up for the United States Army Air Corps and he enlisted after the attack on Pearl Harbor. He was commissioned on August 5, 1942, and was posted to the Pacific Theater of Operations where he joined the 394th Bomb Squadron, 5th Bombardment Group, of the Thirteenth Air Force. He flew Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress in an estimated 89 combat missions. After being rotated back to the United States he was promoted to Captain and became an air crash investigator. During his military career, he was involved in two plane crashes and was awarded both the Air Medal and the Distinguished Flying Cross. Once a civilian, he began to fly long-haul routes for Pan American World Airways. He was involved in a further crash in June 1947, where the Clipper ''Eclipse'' crashed in the Syrian desert. After pulling injured passengers out of the burning plane, he led the party which sought help. After a further incident, he resigned from Pan-Am, seeking to write for television instead. However, he joined the Los Angeles Police Department, initially in the traffic division but transferred to the newspaper unit where he worked with Chief William H. Parker as a speech writer. He landed the role of technical advisor for a television version of ''Mr. District Attorney'', which led to him writing scripts for the series under the pseudonym of "Robert Wesley". This led to a series of collaborations with Ziv Television Programs, and he resigned from the police on June 7, 1956, in order to take up a writing position on the staff of ''The West Point Story''. ==Early life (1921–1941)== Gene Roddenberry was born on August 19, 1921 in his parents' rented home in El Paso, Texas, the first child of Eugene Edward Roddenberry and Caroline "Glen" (née Goleman) Roddenberry. He was named after his father and referred to as "Little" Gene. Roddenberry would later describe his father as "very intelligent" but a "very common man".〔Alexander (1995): pp. 10–12〕 At the time of Gene's birth, his father was working as a linesman, but shortly afterward he rode the rails to Los Angeles to seek better employment. He joined the Los Angeles Police Department as an emergency appointee on December 7, 1922. The following March he sent a message to his wife to tell her to come to Los Angeles with their son. Two months later, Gene Sr. passed the Civil Service test and was given a police commission.〔Alexander (1995): pp. 15–17〕 The elder Roddenberry became a patrolman, and held that rank for the next twenty years. The family expanded with the birth of Robert Leon Roddenberry in 1924, and Doris Willodean Roddenberry in 1925. During this time, the Roddenberrys bought their first home at 3243 Drew Street.〔Alexander (1995): p. 18〕 During Gene's early years, he was saved by a quick thinking milkman who noticed that the house was on fire. He pounded on the door until Glen awoke and rushed out of the house with the children in tow. Roddenberry's father kept rabbits, and the children sold them outside the house. It was these animals that became the subject of Roddenberry's first published work in his school's twice-yearly newspaper, ''The Ace''.〔Alexander (1995): p. 22〕 During his childhood, Roddenberry was interested in reading, especially pulp magazines,〔Alexander (1995): p. 34〕 and was a fan of stories such as ''John Carter of Mars'', ''Tarzan'', and the ''Skylark'' series by E. E. Smith.〔Alexander (1995): p. 37〕 In 1933, when Roddenberry was twelve years old, the family moved to 4906 Monte Vista in the shadow of Mount Washington,〔 and he began attending Luther Burbank Junior High School.〔Alexander (1995): p. 30〕 This was the house that Roddenberry would later describe as his childhood home.〔Alexander (1995): p. 23〕 His father helped the boys obtain local jobs; Gene worked as a newspaper delivery boy and as a gas station attendant on Saturdays, and after school. The young Roddenberry moved to Franklin High School during the middle years of the Great Depression.〔Alexander (1995): pp. 26–27〕 His father was relatively unaffected by the Great Depression because of his stable employment with the police department. The family distributed food to friends and family who were in need.〔 Glen's parents and her younger sister Willodean moved into the house for a time before finding other accommodation in Redondo Beach.〔 During his time at Franklin, Roddenberry joined the Varsity Debate Team and was a member of the Authors Club under Mrs. Virginia Church. He graduated in 1939.〔Alexander (1995): pp. 43–44〕 He attended Los Angeles City College from 1939 onwards. Although Roddenberry ranked in the ninetieth percentile on an intelligence test, and in the 99th percentile on a reading test administered as part of his college entrance examination,〔Alexander (1995): p. 47〕 he elected to major in the police science curriculum;〔Alexander (1995): p. 48〕 as president of the school's Police Club, he communicated with police liaison Stanley Sheldon.〔 During his second year, he developed an interest in aeronautical engineering and obtained a pilot's license through the United States Army Air Corps-sponsored Civilian Pilot Training Program.〔Alexander (1995): p. 49〕 He graduated from Los Angeles City College with an Associate of Arts degree in police science on June 26, 1941, becoming the first member of his family to earn a college degree. After graduating, he travelled to March Air Base and signed up for the Army Air Corps; due to the lack of training spaces his entrance was delayed. For the remainder of the summer, he attended Peace Officer training at the University of California, Los Angeles as an Army cadet.〔Alexander (1995): pp. 52–53〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Early life and career of Gene Roddenberry」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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