Open AccessStar Trek and Gene Roddenberry’s “Vision of the Future”: The Creation of an Early Television Auteur
Author(s) -
Michael Kmet
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
networking knowledge
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1755-9944
DOI - 10.31165/nk.2012.52.269
Subject(s) - narrative , star trek , franchise , auteur theory , star (game theory) , media studies , history , sociology , literature , art , business , movie theater , mathematical analysis , business administration , mathematics
Gene Roddenberry propagated a narrative of himself as a “visionary” writer-producer and the primary author of Star Trek in the 1960s. From the 1970s onwards, Paramount Pictures (and later, CBS) co-opted that narrative to market what would become the Star Trek franchise. This paper will examine to what extent this narrative can be substantiated, and to what extent certain aspects can be contested.