Star Trek Creator Quotes

“I think the ultimate pornography is the violent films, the war films. Those scenes of killing and maiming people. By some strange twist of mind, slaughtering people with machine guns seems to be acceptable while pinching a tit seems to be an awful thing. ~ Gene Roddenberry 1972 interview”
― David Alexander, Star Trek Creator: The Authorized Biography of Gene Roddenberry

“I find myself, like many thoughtful citizens, on the horns of the dilemma of being totally opposed to violence but also as totally opposed to allowing certain conditions in our society to continue. I don’t want any J.C. Penney branch store burned and looted, but I deplore even more the original Watts in which human dignity, aspiration, and often even life were impossible! A contempt for law and resort to violence will certainly destroy any social structure, but is a discomforting fact that they are more often a result of something than a cause. ~ Gene Roddenberry Mar 1970 letter”
― David Alexander, Star Trek Creator: The Authorized Biography of Gene Roddenberry