Eileen Rexroat: Gene's first wife
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She is kind of the big missing gap in the Star Trek mythos, under California law she owned half of Gene Roddenberry's finacial interest in Trek.
Ive looked for old interviews of her for years, but to no avail. She might have had some interesting insights into the original creation of the pilots and the series.
If she's still alive, she'd be in her eighties.
Ive looked for old interviews of her for years, but to no avail. She might have had some interesting insights into the original creation of the pilots and the series.
If she's still alive, she'd be in her eighties.
While searching for Eileen Anita Rexroat, I came upon this gem about Majel Barrett Roddenberry. While it is pure fanboy fantasy, it is a fun read.
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Holy crap, that was hilarious! Okay, I know that English is obviously not that person's first language and they did the best they could, but I laughed my head off. Some of my favorite bits:
Yes, the NBC executives didn't like the fact that "The Cage" was a woman. That's why "Where No Man Has Gone Before" was obviously a man, and had a clearly visible penis.
She'd been trying to give birth for years, but the damned kid was like "No, I like it in here!"
And it was a bitch getting that thing down the LA freeways, let me tell ya!
I didn't know a deal was in place for the show to go 5 seasons.
Comprehension is our friend, don't fight it.
I got in one little fight and my mom got scared. She said, "you'll move in with Uncle Gene and Aunt Majel in Bel Air".
Yikes! And I thought my writing was bad.
During the making of TOS he still was married to Eileen. Majel was only his mistress at the time, while Eileen was his wife. He didn't divorce Eileen and marry Majel until after TOS was over.
It was just one of several ways in which Gene had some great ideals about how much better humanity will be in the future, but was regrettably unable to live up to those ideals within himself. By some accounts he lived quite the life of vice, actually...
Not being judgmental, but he certainly took advantage of his opportunities. Wouldn't work for me, though. I can't imagine getting any takers to the line "I won't drop a 70 lb. package on your fragile piece of Priority Mail if you give me 5 minutes worth".
I forgot, do the quotation marks at the end of a sentence come before or after the period?
In American usage, the period is inside the quotes, but I think it's outside in British usage. Which makes more sense to me, since the period often isn't part of what's being quoted.
I believe it also depends on usage.
If you're quoting somebody, it would be:
Uhura said, "Captain Kirk, the Klingons are hailing us."
On the other hand, if you're quoting a phrase:
Captain Picard often says "engage".
I haven't been a reporter/writer for some time, so correct me if I'm wrong. (I seriously need to get back into writing.)
If you're quoting somebody, it would be:
Uhura said, "Captain Kirk, the Klingons are hailing us."
On the other hand, if you're quoting a phrase:
Captain Picard often says "engage".
I haven't been a reporter/writer for some time, so correct me if I'm wrong. (I seriously need to get back into writing.)
And so did the characters in the stories he wrote :
The Cage : Pike is tortured with sex fantasies to get him to procreate with Vina.
Mudd's Women : enough said.
Enemy Within : Violent rape scene that was amazing it got to air in '66.
Private Little War : The villagers "share" captured Hill-people women.
TMP : Oaths of celibacy because "sexually immature" earthmen can't handle Deltan women
Naked Now : an excuse for everyone to get drunk and sleep together.
Justice : enough said.
You can spot Roddenberry's writing a mile off. It just must have been on his mind constantly! I'm not going to judge the guy either, but you can't deny Roddenberry's insatiable appetite for sex isn't stamped all over Trek.
As for Eileen Rexroat, I hope she has had a happy life post GR. The only things I ever recall reading about her were that Bob Justman, (when he met her early in the run of TOS prior to the divorce) found her polite, but distant and she seemed uncomfortable about GR's new Hollywood friends (understandable with what was going on after hours), and during the court cases over GR's estate in the 90's, she said the idea for Star Trek came from family camping trips when GR would entertain his two daughters with stories about the stars.
^Well, of course Richard Matheson wrote "The Enemy Within." And rape wasn't really seen as that big a deal back then (at least not by the male establishment); it was seen more as extremely rude behavior than the brutal, dehumanizing assault we now understand it to be. It was pretty common to joke about bosses chasing their secretaries around their desks and things like that. Flirtation of a sort that we'd see as sexual harassment was treated as normative; if anything, it was seen as unkind to a woman if you didn't express sexual interest in her.
Along the same lines, I'd be surprised if Roddenberry's promiscuity wasn't typical of Hollywood producers from the era in general. Lots of powerful men over the generations have seen themselves as entitled to sleep around and seduce women.
Along the same lines, I'd be surprised if Roddenberry's promiscuity wasn't typical of Hollywood producers from the era in general. Lots of powerful men over the generations have seen themselves as entitled to sleep around and seduce women.
Where did you get this information?
Partly just general awareness of the era (I grew up in the '70s), but also in a book I found in the course of a TrekBBS thread a couple of years ago:
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