Gene Roddenberry was an insecure misogynistic hack?
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Nexus71 — 9 years ago(September 15, 2016 04:31 PM)
During TOS he had at least three/four women Nichols,Barrett,Fontana and the previous mentioned dame Gene was doing some going boldly where no man had gone before himself during that period.It's a good thing he wasn't bisexual otherwise he would have had Takei as well.
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Nexus71 — 9 years ago(September 16, 2016 08:44 AM)
No he was the producer of the show still married ,with four women on the side plus the stories of the casting couch(of which Grace Lee Whitney became a victim).He eventually divorced but a studio exec. remembers walking in on Gene and Nichols(who according him was barely dressed and Gene was sort of amused by the whole awkward situation).Misogynistic perhaps probably a sociopath and narcissist.
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Nakitaakita-1 — 9 years ago(September 16, 2016 09:44 AM)
He got all the women because he we wealthy and could get them into acting on his show.
Happens all the time. I think it may have even been more prevalent back in the 60's and 70's.
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WyldeGoose — 9 years ago(September 18, 2016 08:20 PM)
I've read some of his scripts for Wagon Train, and they're pretty good. I'm sure he had an editor or two, but I think he probably had a better time writing in a genre he was more familiar with, meaning Westerns. That's hardly surprising, given that 90% of what came out of Hollywood at the time were either Westerns or crime dramas (and I didn't make up that statistic - Life magazine at the time ran a feature saying how much Hollywood, during the 40s and 50s, just loved westerns and gritty crime). You can literally count the number of true sci-fi stuff pre-50s literally on one hand (if you don't include superhero stuff), whereas westerns predominated the scene, and for a lot of people living in the first-half of the 20th Century, they could relate to some of it, due to the fact that the populace was transitioning from farms to the suburbs.