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From: Scott.Safier@CMU-CS-CAD@sri-unix.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Star Trek (Gene Roddenberry)
Message-ID: <3426@sri-arpa.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 25-Jul-83 12:47:06 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 25 12:47:06 1983
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During our term last year, Gene Roddenberry spoke at Carnegie-Mellon.  To
say the least, star trek questions were numerous, and several of the issues
recently debated on this bboard were brought up.

1) Yes, Spock will be back in future movies, although no one at that time
had figured out how they were going to do it.

2) Star Trek is a many faceted organization which Gene Roddenberry has only
a small say in.  Such is what happened with the animated series.  Mr.
Roddenberry was not involved with this group, and felt that some of the
plots that were portrayed were stupid (such as using the transporter to make
people young again).  For this reason, we believe they will not use this
method to "bring spock back".

3) Some other interesting things:  Many episodes of Star Trek were
anti-(vietnam)-war in nature.  In Mr. Roddenberry's own words, "What the
network sensors were too stupid to see in our scripts, the public saw."

4) Gene Roddenberry is married to number 1 (from "The Managerie").  this
actress later became  Nurse Chapel.

That's all for now,
Scott Safier@cmu-cs-cad
Monica Cellio@cmu-cs-c