INTERVIEW: Rod Roddenberry Discusses Producing Star Trek and His Foundation's Current Projects

INTERVIEW: Rod Roddenberry Discusses Producing Star Trek and His Foundation's Current Projects
Rod Roddenberry. Image: Eugene Gologursky/Getty Images.

Rod Roddenberry. Image: Eugene Gologursky/Getty Images.

NOVEMBER 28, 2022 - Rod Roddenberry inherited the responsibility for Star Trek from his parents and he takes it seriously. He also takes making the world a better place seriously, and DSTN's Managing Editor, T. Rick Jones had a chance to sit down with him to talk about his "sibling rivalry" with Trek, the Roddenberry Foundation's current projects, and just what all those Executive Producers do on Star Trek.

T is the Managing Editor for Daily Star Trek News and a contributing writer for Sherlock Holmes Magazine and a Shakespeare nerd. He may have been the last professional Stage Manager to work with Leonard Nimoy, has worked Off-Broadway and regionally, and is the union Stage Manager for Legacy Theatre, where he is currently working with Julie Andrews. after which he’ll be working on Richard III at Elm Shakespeare Company.