In 1964, a clever man by the name of Gene Roddenberry came up with an idea for a show that would change the geek and nerd world forever, Star Trek. Even though this idea took a long time to finally be produced, it was a hit on television, but just a few years later it was cancelled. Then, the franchise was revived some years later to create the movies with its original cast. Since then four more Star Trek series and even more movies have came out. Even though Star Trek faced many challenges and eventually was cancelled, it was inspired by a great man and was the idea for many other series and movies, and created large amount of fans. One great man made a huge phenomena. This man was Gene Roddenberry, who was born on August 9th, 1921 in El Paso, Texas (Greenberger 14). He was married to Eileen Anita Rexroat and had two children. Originally, he went to school to become a police officer and started working in the Los Angeles…show more content… The show had an unhappy cast mostly due to a conflict between Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner (Greenberger 34). Another problem was Roddenberry was gone during most of this season. Also many people stopped watching because of a switch in the time in the time schedule (Greenberger 50). The production of Star Trek ended finished on January 9, 1969 (Greenberger 50).
However the series was not the end of Star Trek. They were going to be another series Star Trek: Phase II, however it turned into Star Trek The Motion Picture (Greenberger 101). On August 10 1976, it was announced that The Motion Picture was going to come on the screen (Greenberger 93). Many things were changed for the show including costumes, which were changed to make find important people easier (Greenberger 103). The movie was about finding Kirk, who was missing for some time (Greenberger 93). Many said the movies was not great, but it did win some awards, which was enough for a sequel (Greenberger
