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Welcome to Gene-ology, a podcast by Roddenberry Entertainment that dives deep into the early TV writing works of Gene Roddenberry. To fans, they were the Great Bird of the Galaxy and the First Lady of Star Trek. To their friends and co-workers, Gene Roddenberry and Majel Barrett Roddenberry were, perhaps, slightly less mythic figures with their own very human quirks, but still beloved and admired. In this panel from the TrekTalks 5 telethon in support of the Hollywood Food Coalition, Gene and Majel are remembered by those who knew them. Podcast hosted by Earl Green & Ashley Thomas TrekTalks panel hosted by John Champion Panel guests: Fred Bronson, Denise Crosby, Ernie Over, Rod Roddenberry About Gene-ology Gene-ology explores Gene Roddenberry's early television scripts, including his lesser-known works before Star Trek using the Mission Log format popularized by Roddenberry Podcasts. We analyze the themes, writing style, and cultural impact of his scripts, and we even unearth stories from the Roddenberry archives that were never produced. Join us as we trace the roots of Gene's creative genius. In This Episode Memories of Gene Roddenberry and Majel Barrett Roddenberry from those who knew and worked with them Join the Conversation What did you think of this episode? Share your thoughts, theories, and favorite moments in the comments or reach out to us on social media or email us at missionlog@roddenberry.com Did you know Roddenberry Podcasts is on YouTube? Find the video versions of your favorite shows like Mission Log: Prodigy, Mission Log: The Orville, as well as exclusive content only available on YouTube. Subscribe now! https://www.youtube.com/@RoddenberryEntertainment?sub_confirmation=1 Follow us on Social Media: INSTAGRAM https://www.instagram.com/roddenberrypodcasts BLUESKY https://bsky.app/profile/roddenberrypod.bsky.social THREADS https://www.threads.net/@roddenberrypodcasts FACEBOOK https://www.facebook.com/MissionLogPod Our shows are part of the Roddenberry Entertainment family. For more great shows and to learn how we live the legacy of Gene Roddenberry, the creator of Star Trek, follow us here: RODDENBERRY PODCASTS https://www.instagram.com/RoddenberryPodcasts RODDENBERRY ENTERTAINMENT https://www.instagram.com/RoddenberryOfficial RODDENBERRY FOUNDATION https://www.instagram.com/TheRoddenberryFoundation Support the Show For as little as $1 a month, you can gain access to our Mission Log Discord Community! There, we continue the discussion with dedicated channels and a weekly video chat with the hosts. Become a member of our Patreon today! https://www.Patreon.com/MissionLog Subscribe and Stay Tuned Be sure to subscribe to Gene-ology for more deep dives into Gene Roddenberry's early works. New episodes are released regularly as we uncover more of Gene's television legacy. – Gene-ology is produced by Roddenberry Entertainment. Executive producer Eugene "Rod" Roddenberry. Visit https://Podcasts.Roddenberry.com for more great content. Edited by Earl Green.
Fox airs the fourth episode of the science fiction comedy-drama The Orville, starring and created by Seth McFarlane. James Morrison (Space: Above And Beyond) guest stars, and Liam Neeson (Star Wars Episode I) makes an unannounced, uncredited cameo appearance.
French streaming service OCS releases the fifth episode of the sci-fi series Missions, created by Ami Cohen, Henri Debeurme, and Julien Lacombe. The series’ first season will debut, with English subtitles, on the American streaming service Shudder later in the year.
French streaming service OCS releases the fourth episode of the sci-fi series Missions, created by Ami Cohen, Henri Debeurme, and Julien Lacombe. The series’ first season will debut, with English subtitles, on the American streaming service Shudder later in the year.
French streaming service OCS releases the third episode of the sci-fi series Missions, created by Ami Cohen, Henri Debeurme, and Julien Lacombe. The series’ first season will debut, with English subtitles, on the American streaming service Shudder later in the year.
French streaming service OCS releases the second episode of the sci-fi series Missions, created by Ami Cohen, Henri Debeurme, and Julien Lacombe. The series’ first season will debut, with English subtitles, on the American streaming service Shudder later in the year.
French streaming service OCS releases the first episode of the sci-fi series Missions, created by Ami Cohen, Henri Debeurme, and Julien Lacombe. The series’ first season will debut, with English subtitles, on the American streaming service Shudder later in the year.
Schiffer publishes David L. Craddock’s non-fictional collection of essays on the stories and creators behind Apple II computer games, “Break Out: How The Apple II Launched The PC Gaming Revolution “. The book profiles the creators and the stories behind such popular titles as Ultima, The Oregon Trail, Pinball Construction Set, Wizardry, Zork, Lode Runner, and more.
Michael O’Hare, who starred in the 1993 pilot movie and the first full season (1994) of the science fiction series Babylon 5, dies of complications from a heart attack he suffered the week before. An accomplished stage actor who made infrequent forays into television, O’Hare had been out of the public eye (including the science fiction convention circuit) for several years.
Film Score Monthly releases Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Ron Jones Project, a mammoth 14-CD box set containing nearly all of the episode scores Ron Jones scored during the first four seasons of the series. The score conspicuous by its absence is the fan favorite The Best Of Both Worlds, originally released by GNP Crescendo in 1991 and contractually locked to that label. Jones’ scores for the computer games Starfleet Command and Starfleet Academy are also included, along with unused cues from TNG.
Sci-Fi Channel airs the 61st episode of Stargate Atlantis. Amanda Tapping moves Stargate SG-1’s Colonel Carter to Atlantis in the fourth season premiere.
The eighth webisode of Battlestar Galactica: The Resistance, a serialized story set immediately prior to the third season of Ronald D. Moore’s re-imagining of Battlestar Galactica, premieres on the Sci-Fi Channel’s website.
The soundtrack of the 1967 movie OK Connery is released, with music by Bruno Nicolai and Ennio Morricone. The movie is better known to fans of Mystery Science Theater 3000 as Operation Double 007.
The 22nd episode of James Cameron & Charles H. Eglee’s cyberpunk series Dark Angel, starring Jessica Alba and Michael Weatherly, airs on Fox. John Savage, Nana Visitor (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), and Yee Jee Tso (Doctor Who) guest star in the second season premiere.
The 56th episode of Joss Whedon’s supernatural series Buffy The Vampire Slayer, starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, airs on the WB network. Anthony Stewart Head, David Boreanaz, and Alyson Hannigan also star. Alexis Denisof (Angel) guest stars. This episode, written prior to the Columbine High School massacre in April 1999, is not the fourth season premiere, but is instead a third season episode aired out of sequence due to some of the eerie similarities between the episode’s plotline and that real world event.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 149th episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. This episode is the beginning of Deep Space Nine’s seventh and final season, and introduces new series regular Nicole de Boer (Mission Genesis, The Dead Zone) as Ezri Dax, the Dax symbiont’s new host body. Brock Peters and James Darren guest star.
The seventh episode of the Sci-Fi Channel original series Welcome To Paradox airs, a loosely-connected anthology of science fiction stories set in Betaville, a utopian future city whose incredible technology has frequently unintended side-effects. Mayim Bialik (Blossom, Big Bang Theory) stars in a story co-written by Kelley Eskridge.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the first episode of the fantasy series Highlander, starring Adrian Paul (War Of The Worlds), Alexandra Vandernoort, and Stan Kirsch, and based on the mythology created in the 1986 movie of the same name. Christopher Lambert, star of the original 1986 Highlander film, and Richard Moll (Night Court) guest star.
The eighth episode of George Lucas’ historical adventure series The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles airs on ABC, starring Sean Patrick Flanery. Jason Flemyng (Primeval, Pennyworth) guest stars.
The 659th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. The 24th season also opens the era of the seventh Doctor, played by Sylvester McCoy. Kate O’Mara guest stars as the Rani.
The national syndication window opens for the two-hour premiere of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Encounter At Farpoint. Written by Trek creator Gene Roddenberry and original series story editor D.C. Fontana, this episode introduces the fan favorite nemesis Q, as played by John de Lancie. Though it’s not tied to any network, some of the stations carrying TNG in syndication – including major-market stations – air TNG in prime-time in place of their usual network programming.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the first episode of Friday the 13th: The Series, starring John D. LeMay, Wendy Robie and Chris Wiggins. Gordon Michael Woolvett (Gene Roddenberry’s Andromeda) guest stars. The series has no story connections to the movie franchise of the same name, and was originally developed under the title The 13th Hour.
BBC1 premieres the 40th episode of Terry Nation’s science fiction series Blake’s 7, the first episode of the series’ fourth season. Due to a last-minute pickup by the BBC, the series has to reboot from this point with a new ship, new sets, costumes, props, and a new direction decided on without significant input from series creator Terry Nation. Jan Chappell provides a voice-over for Cally, who doesn’t appear in person. Glynis Barber is introduced as new series regular Soolin.
Carl Sagan’s groundbreaking science documentary series Cosmos debuts on PBS. A popular history of science and scientific theory vs. tradition and superstition, segueing into Sagan’s field of expertise (astrophysics), Cosmos is a major milestone in American documentary filmmaking and the popularization of science and the scientific method (and makes an instant celebrity out of Sagan).
The 37th episode of the live-action series based on Marvel’s comic The Incredible Hulk airs on CBS, starring Bill Bixby, Jack Colvin, and Lou Ferrigno. Nicolas Coster guest stars.
The 20th episode of Star Blazers, an English rewrite and dub of the 1974 anime series Space Battleship Yamato, premieres in syndication across the U.S.
The 15th episode of Harold Jack Bloom’s sci-fi series Project UFO airs on NBC, portraying fictionalized investigations into what the show claims are actual cases from the U.S. Air Force’s Project Blue Book investigations. Edward Winter and Caskey Swaim star. Jared Martin (The Fantastic Journey, War Of The Worlds) guest stars.
The 38th episode of The Six Million Dollar Man is broadcast on ABC, starring Lee Majors and Richard Anderson. Chuck Connors (The Rifleman, Werewolf) guest stars.
The fourth episode of Land Of The Lost premieres on NBC. This episode, written by SF novelist Larry Niven, guest stars Walker Edmiston, though not in the role he will play for much of the remainder of the series.
The Soviet Union launches unmanned space probe Luna 19 toward the moon, a return to orbital-only missions. Over the course of a year, Luna 19 conducts an extensive mapping campaign of the lunar surface, as well as measuring gravitational anomalies in lunar orbit.
ITV premieres the first episode of Timeslip, a time travel adventure series aimed at younger viewers. (Though produced in color, later purges at ITV’s archive facility leaves future generations with only black & white copies of this and most other episodes.)
ITV airs the second episode of the mystery/spy-fi series Strange Report in the U.K., starring Anthony Quayle, Kaz Garas, and Anneke Wills (Doctor Who). (The series is an international co-production and airs in the United States on NBC.)
ABC airs the 28th episode of Irwin Allen’s sci-fi series Land Of The Giants, starring Gary Conway, Don Matheson, Deanna Lund, and Don Marshall. Richard Anderson (The Six Million Dollar Man) and Sam Elliott guest star.
ABC broadcasts the third episode of the Filmation animated series Fantastic Voyage, based on the 1966 movie of the same name. Marvin Miller, Ted Knight, and Jane Webb lead the voice cast.
The 41st episode of Batman airs on ABC. Victor Buono guest stars as the Minstrel; Van Williams and Bruce Lee reprise their Green Hornet characters in a cameo appearance.
British broadcaster ABC airs the 79th episode of the spy-fi series The Avengers, starring Patrick Macnee and Diana Rigg. This is the premiere of the series’ fourth season, and the first season to be shot on film rather than videotape.
theLogBook.com releases the 11th episode of the Retrogram podcast, hosted by Earl Green, covering the following shows from the weeks of July 25th and August 1st, 1971:
Fox airs the fourth episode of the science fiction comedy-drama The Orville, starring and created by Seth McFarlane. James Morrison (Space: Above And Beyond) guest stars, and Liam Neeson (Star Wars Episode I) makes an unannounced, uncredited cameo appearance. 
French streaming service OCS releases the fifth episode of the sci-fi series Missions, created by Ami Cohen, Henri Debeurme, and Julien Lacombe. The series’ first season will debut, with English subtitles, on the American streaming service Shudder later in the year. 
French streaming service OCS releases the fourth episode of the sci-fi series Missions, created by Ami Cohen, Henri Debeurme, and Julien Lacombe. The series’ first season will debut, with English subtitles, on the American streaming service Shudder later in the year. 
French streaming service OCS releases the third episode of the sci-fi series Missions, created by Ami Cohen, Henri Debeurme, and Julien Lacombe. The series’ first season will debut, with English subtitles, on the American streaming service Shudder later in the year. 
French streaming service OCS releases the second episode of the sci-fi series Missions, created by Ami Cohen, Henri Debeurme, and Julien Lacombe. The series’ first season will debut, with English subtitles, on the American streaming service Shudder later in the year. 
French streaming service OCS releases the first episode of the sci-fi series Missions, created by Ami Cohen, Henri Debeurme, and Julien Lacombe. The series’ first season will debut, with English subtitles, on the American streaming service Shudder later in the year. 
Schiffer publishes David L. Craddock’s non-fictional collection of essays on the stories and creators behind Apple II computer games, “Break Out: How The Apple II Launched The PC Gaming Revolution “. The book profiles the creators and the stories behind such popular titles as Ultima, The Oregon Trail, Pinball Construction Set, Wizardry, Zork, Lode Runner, and more. 
Michael O’Hare, who starred in the 1993 pilot movie and the first full season (1994) of the science fiction series Babylon 5, dies of complications from a heart attack he suffered the week before. An accomplished stage actor who made infrequent forays into television, O’Hare had been out of the public eye (including the science fiction convention circuit) for several years.
Film Score Monthly releases Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Ron Jones Project, a mammoth 14-CD box set containing nearly all of the episode scores Ron Jones scored during the first four seasons of the series. The score conspicuous by its absence is the fan favorite The Best Of Both Worlds, originally released by GNP Crescendo in 1991 and contractually locked to that label. Jones’ scores for the computer games Starfleet Command and Starfleet Academy are also included, along with unused cues from TNG. 
Sci-Fi Channel airs the 61st episode of Stargate Atlantis. Amanda Tapping moves Stargate SG-1’s Colonel Carter to Atlantis in the fourth season premiere. 
The eighth webisode of Battlestar Galactica: The Resistance, a serialized story set immediately prior to the third season of Ronald D. Moore’s re-imagining of Battlestar Galactica, premieres on the Sci-Fi Channel’s website. 
ABC premieres the second episode of Shaun Cassidy’s sci-fi/horror series Invasion, starring William Fichtner (Contact), Eddie Cibrian, and Lisa Sheridan. Cirroc Lofton (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) guest stars. 
ABC airs the 26th episode of the J.J. Abrams-produced series Lost. Henry Ian Cusick, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, and Saul Rubinek guest star. 
The soundtrack of the 1967 movie OK Connery is released, with music by Bruno Nicolai and Ennio Morricone. The movie is better known to fans of Mystery Science Theater 3000 as Operation Double 007. 
The Brian Wilson album Smile, based on songs and concepts from an unfinished Beach Boys album, is released. 
The 14th episode of the radio science fiction comedy series The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy is broadcast on BBC Radio, continuing Dirk Maggs’ adaptation of Douglas Adams’ novel Life, The Universe, And Everything with most of the original radio cast. Real-life BBC cricket commentators Henry Blofeld and Henry Trueman appear as themselves. 
The 22nd episode of James Cameron & Charles H. Eglee’s cyberpunk series Dark Angel, starring Jessica Alba and Michael Weatherly, airs on Fox. John Savage, Nana Visitor (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), and Yee Jee Tso (Doctor Who) guest star in the second season premiere.
The 56th episode of Joss Whedon’s supernatural series Buffy The Vampire Slayer, starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, airs on the WB network. Anthony Stewart Head, David Boreanaz, and Alyson Hannigan also star. Alexis Denisof (Angel) guest stars. This episode, written prior to the Columbine High School massacre in April 1999, is not the fourth season premiere, but is instead a third season episode aired out of sequence due to some of the eerie similarities between the episode’s plotline and that real world event.
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 149th episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. This episode is the beginning of Deep Space Nine’s seventh and final season, and introduces new series regular Nicole de Boer (Mission Genesis, The Dead Zone) as Ezri Dax, the Dax symbiont’s new host body. Brock Peters and James Darren guest star. 
The seventh episode of the Sci-Fi Channel original series Welcome To Paradox airs, a loosely-connected anthology of science fiction stories set in Betaville, a utopian future city whose incredible technology has frequently unintended side-effects. Mayim Bialik (Blossom, Big Bang Theory) stars in a story co-written by Kelley Eskridge.
Windham Hill releases new age musician Ray Lynch‘s fourth and final album, Nothing Above My Shoulders But The Evening. 
Continuum publishes Tom Stempel’s non-fiction book Storytellers To The Nation: A History Of American Television Writing, chronicling the craft of writing for television from the medium’s inception through the end of the 1980s. 
The week-long national syndication window opens for the first episode of the fantasy series Highlander, starring Adrian Paul (War Of The Worlds), Alexandra Vandernoort, and Stan Kirsch, and based on the mythology created in the 1986 movie of the same name. Christopher Lambert, star of the original 1986 Highlander film, and Richard Moll (Night Court) guest star. 
The week-long national syndication window opens for the 127th episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Dwight Schultz (The A-Team) guest stars. 
The eighth episode of George Lucas’ historical adventure series The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles airs on ABC, starring Sean Patrick Flanery. Jason Flemyng (Primeval, Pennyworth) guest stars.
NBC airs the 31st episode of Donald Bellisario’s science fiction series Quantum Leap, starring Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell. David Newsom guest stars in the third season premiere. 
The 19th episode of Black Adder airs on BBC1, starring Rowan Atkinson. This is the fourth season premiere. 
The 659th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. The 24th season also opens the era of the seventh Doctor, played by Sylvester McCoy. Kate O’Mara guest stars as the Rani.
The national syndication window opens for the two-hour premiere of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Encounter At Farpoint. Written by Trek creator Gene Roddenberry and original series story editor D.C. Fontana, this episode introduces the fan favorite nemesis Q, as played by John de Lancie. Though it’s not tied to any network, some of the stations carrying TNG in syndication – including major-market stations – air TNG in prime-time in place of their usual network programming. 
The week-long national syndication window opens for the first episode of Friday the 13th: The Series, starring John D. LeMay, Wendy Robie and Chris Wiggins. Gordon Michael Woolvett (Gene Roddenberry’s Andromeda) guest stars. The series has no story connections to the movie franchise of the same name, and was originally developed under the title The 13th Hour. 
ABC broadcasts the fourth episode of the animated Star Wars spinoff series Droids, featuring the voice of Anthony Daniels as C-3PO. This episode marks the first appearance of a movie character other than the droids themselves. 
BBC1 premieres the 40th episode of Terry Nation’s science fiction series Blake’s 7, the first episode of the series’ fourth season. Due to a last-minute pickup by the BBC, the series has to reboot from this point with a new ship, new sets, costumes, props, and a new direction decided on without significant input from series creator Terry Nation. Jan Chappell provides a voice-over for Cally, who doesn’t appear in person. Glynis Barber is introduced as new series regular Soolin. 
Carl Sagan’s groundbreaking science documentary series Cosmos debuts on PBS. A popular history of science and scientific theory vs. tradition and superstition, segueing into Sagan’s field of expertise (astrophysics), Cosmos is a major milestone in American documentary filmmaking and the popularization of science and the scientific method (and makes an instant celebrity out of Sagan). 
The 37th episode of the live-action series based on Marvel’s comic The Incredible Hulk airs on CBS, starring Bill Bixby, Jack Colvin, and Lou Ferrigno. Nicolas Coster guest stars.
The 20th episode of Star Blazers, an English rewrite and dub of the 1974 anime series Space Battleship Yamato, premieres in syndication across the U.S. 
The 15th episode of Harold Jack Bloom’s sci-fi series Project UFO airs on NBC, portraying fictionalized investigations into what the show claims are actual cases from the U.S. Air Force’s Project Blue Book investigations. Edward Winter and Caskey Swaim star. Jared Martin (The Fantastic Journey, War Of The Worlds) guest stars.
The 38th episode of The Six Million Dollar Man is broadcast on ABC, starring Lee Majors and Richard Anderson. Chuck Connors (The Rifleman, Werewolf) guest stars.
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The fourth episode of Land Of The Lost premieres on NBC. This episode, written by SF novelist Larry Niven, guest stars Walker Edmiston, though not in the role he will play for much of the remainder of the series. 
The fourth episode of Filmation’s live-action Shazam! series airs on CBS, starring Jackson Bostwick, Michael Gray and Les Tremayne. 
The Soviet Union launches unmanned space probe Luna 19 toward the moon, a return to orbital-only missions. Over the course of a year, Luna 19 conducts an extensive mapping campaign of the lunar surface, as well as measuring gravitational anomalies in lunar orbit.
ITV premieres the first episode of Timeslip, a time travel adventure series aimed at younger viewers. (Though produced in color, later purges at ITV’s archive facility leaves future generations with only black & white copies of this and most other episodes.) 
ITV airs the second episode of the mystery/spy-fi series Strange Report in the U.K., starring Anthony Quayle, Kaz Garas, and Anneke Wills (Doctor Who). (The series is an international co-production and airs in the United States on NBC.) 
ABC airs the 28th episode of Irwin Allen’s sci-fi series Land Of The Giants, starring Gary Conway, Don Matheson, Deanna Lund, and Don Marshall. Richard Anderson (The Six Million Dollar Man) and Sam Elliott guest star.
The 217th episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. Bernard Horsfall guest stars.
ABC broadcasts the third episode of the Filmation animated series Fantastic Voyage, based on the 1966 movie of the same name. Marvin Miller, Ted Knight, and Jane Webb lead the voice cast.
The 32nd episode of Irwin Allen’s science fiction series Lost In Space premieres on CBS, starring Guy Williams, June Lockhart, and Jonathan Harris.
The 41st episode of Batman airs on ABC. Victor Buono guest stars as the Minstrel; Van Williams and Bruce Lee reprise their Green Hornet characters in a cameo appearance. 
British broadcaster ABC airs the 79th episode of the spy-fi series The Avengers, starring Patrick Macnee and Diana Rigg. This is the premiere of the series’ fourth season, and the first season to be shot on film rather than videotape.