


He considered following in his father’s footsteps and began taking criminal justice courses when he later enrolled at Los Angeles City College.

He loved reading science fiction and had fair grades in school. In 1923, his father accepted a position at the Los Angeles Police Department, and the family left Texas for California.Īs a child, Roddenberry was very imaginative. One Texas writer in particular, Gene Roddenberry, created one of the most successful science fiction stories today, "Star Trek."īorn Eugene Wesley Roddenberry in El Paso in 1921, he was the eldest child in a Southern Baptist family. Because of their dreams and determination, they changed how people saw the world. Texas has been home to many imaginative scientists, artists, and writers.
