“I turned them down”: Gene Roddenberry Had a Very Valid Reason for Rejecting Star Trek: The Next Generation That Gave us Patrick Stewart’s Jean-Luc Picard
“Roddenberry was wildly inconsistent”: All Star Trek Fans Unanimously Agree Even Patrick Stewart Wasn’t Enough to Save One ‘Bizarre’ Season of The Next Generation
“I did have mixed feelings about the series”: Leonard Nimoy Was Offered a Major Role in Star Trek: The Next Generation But He Refused for a Reason Every Trekkie Knows
“You can’t make out with the lady soldier”: William Shatner Says Gene Roddenberry Will be ‘Twirling in His Grave’ With What Star Trek Has Become
“The fights that went on… were big”: William Shatner Claims Star Trek: TNG Writers Openly Dissed Gene Roddenberry, Called His Work ‘Claustrophobic’
“Honey, do what I’m saying”: Gates McFadden May Never Forgive Star Trek: The Next Generation for How They Treated Beverly Crusher
“All these old white dudes in the room”: Despite Patrick Stewart in Lead Role, One Actor Found Star Trek Sexist and Regressive Until Gene Roddenberry Passed Away
“I hadn’t a bloody clue what was going on”: Patrick Stewart Had to Overcome the Same Problem With X-Men That Nearly Brought Down His Star Trek Career
“We were still wobbling. We really were”: Sonequa Martin-Green is Hated by Star Trek Fans But at Least She Earned Respect for Admitting Discovery’s Greatest Flaw
“Star Trek softened up the entertainment arena”: George Lucas Admitted Star Wars Stood on Star Trek’s Shoulder When Studios Didn’t Like It
The Star Trek Series That Was a Direct Response to George Lucas and Star Wars: “Don’t we have a franchise show that we could do that with?”
Leonard Nimoy Never Forgave Gene Roddenberry after One Star Trek Incident “Really damaged” Their Relationship