In television history, few pilots have had a stranger journey than the first attempt at Star Trek. Today, the 1964 pilot episode “The Cage” is widely regarded as a landmark in sci-fi TV—a serious, ...

Gene Roddenberry is Star Trek, and Star Trek is Gene Roddenberry. The franchise and its creator are inextricably linked, with the former borne out of Roddenberry's imagination for a series that was ...