Probably not very diplomatic to bring that up when you've got the Klingon chancellor over for tea though.
Quite. There was a war in it, that's not the same as being pro-war. There were many episodes showing the sacrifices (not only in manpower/lives, but also in morals/scruples etc.) that both sides made, and the toll it took.
He was also a philanderer/adulterer, drug abuser, and stole credit for other people's work - I'd be careful how high you put that pedestal.
Which is really weird, considering that Roddenberry wasn't especially involved with TNG the last few years of his life.
The silly thing about that criteria for TNG is that Roddenberry pretty much had no real input regarding the show's content from season 3 onwards.
A pity he couldn't find his veto pen for "Code of Honor".
Well, he did "veto" the original director from finishing the whole shoot, so... there's that, at least?A pity he couldn't find his veto pen for "Code of Honor".
I never knew that. Frightening to think it really could have been worse!Well, he did "veto" the original director from finishing the whole shoot, so... there's that, at least?
Oh, yes. Gene Roddenberry was certainly the rarity, having been a Hollywood celebrity using and/or finding himself addicted to recreational drugs, wasn't he? Same with having been an adulterer, for that matter. Not unlike, say ... Majel Barrett. Other social pariah in that category include FDR, JFK, Ike, Bill Clinton ... yeah, GR's in bad company there, that's for sure. As for "stealing" credit for other people's work, yes ... that is unethical, but, again ... how rare for Hollywood to take someone else's "original" concept, change 7 or so things then repackage it as their own. That Gene Roddenberry ... his "pedestal" is still pretty solid, with me. He did alright.
As I noted on several occasions (example) during my time at TrekBBS.com (2002-2010), I was never a fan of ST:TNG especially considering that I wasted seven years trying to convince myself with minimal success that it was the greatest thing since, well, ST:TMP. Furthermore, I am perfectly cognizant of the fact that Gene Roddenberry's creative involvement - for lack of a better term - was effectively non-existent long before Hero Worship was an oily twinkle in Berman/Piller's eye (example). Finally, I should perhaps note that in retrospect I was never even a Star Trek fan per se; I was a Gene Roddenberry fan, and being a fan of a particular Hollywood writer-producer in no way implies an unshakeable faith in his artistic infallibility. After all, if Steven Bochco (probably my third favorite childhood HW-P after GR and Dan O'Bannon) could bestow Cop Rock upon an unsuspecting television audience, who was I to hope that The Great Bird could do any better?
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HausmeisterOHBSystemAG is TheGodThing under a new screenname. That's why he's linking to his old posts and referring to himself in the first person. I presume that's why his new account is now deleted.
