
As for ``warts,'' Alexander treats Roddenberry's compulsive womanizing as a lovable idiosyncrasy he also presents without details a list of six science fiction writers who worked for Roddenberry on Star Trek but would no longer do so. 1 2 Data is portrayed by actor Brent Spiner. He appears in the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation ( TNG) and the first and third seasons of Star Trek: Picard and the feature films Star Trek Generations (1994), First Contact (1996), Insurrection (1998), and Nemesis (2002). Then followed a series of movies starting in 1979 and another TV series, Star Trek: The Next Generation, beginning in 1987, followed by Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Data is a fictional character in the Star Trek franchise.

While the original Star Trek series lasted for three years and lost money every year until 1969, when it was cancelled, by 1972 it was a huge hit in syndication.

In tracing his subject's career in the Army Air Corps in WW II, as a Pan Am pilot and member of the Los Angeles Police Department, the author shows Roddenberry as a brave and adventurous man who proved to be hardworking and tenacious as well.

The result is a panegyric in the sharpest possible contrast to Joel Engel's Gene Roddenberry (Nonfiction Forecasts, Mar. Roddenberry took a generation of viewers along on a journey into 'space, the final frontier,' aboard the Starship. Alexander was editor of the Humanist when Roddenberry (1921-1991) chose him as his biographer. But with 'Star Trek,' which made its debut in 1966 and ran until 1969 on NBC, Mr.
