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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.
Syfy airs the 43rd episode of the science fiction series Eureka, starring Colin Ferguson, Salli Richardson, and Joe Morton. Niall Matter (Primeval: New World) guest stars in the third season finale.
The fourteenth full-time crew of the International Space Station lifts off from Russia’s Baikonur Cosmodrome aboard Soyuz TMA-9. Mikhail Tyurin and Michael López-Alegría take up residence on the ISS for 215 days; with the American space shuttle fleet back in action, longer ISS stays with larger crews are once again possible.. Arriving with them on the ISS for a nine-day stay is Iranian-born telecommunications entrepreneur (and Ansari X-Prize founder) Anousheh Ansari, who returns to Earth aboard Soyuz TMA-8 with the Expedition 13 crew. Like other “space tourists” before her, she has paid for her own Soyuz seat and mission training.
The 50th episode of the supernatural crime series Forever Knight airs in syndication, starring Geraint Wyn-Davies, Catherine Disher, Nigel Bennett, and Lisa Ryder. Geraint Wyn-Davies directs.
The 22nd episode of Lois & Clark: The New Adventures Of Superman airs on ABC, starring Dean Cain and Teri Hatcher. Denise Crosby (Star Trek: The Next Generation) guest stars in the second season premiere.
NBC airs the 53rd episode of Donald Bellisario’s science fiction series Quantum Leap, starring Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell. This is the fourth season premiere.
The recently-launched Fox Network launches its first prime-time science fiction series, Kenneth Johnson’s TV adaptation of the movie Alien Nation. Gary Graham, Eric Pierpoint and Michele Scarabelli star in a story of escaped alien slaves who inadvertently land on Earth, becoming a somewhat marginalized immigrant population. Diane Civita (V) and Tim Russ (Star Trek: Voyager) guest star in the pilot.
The seventh episode of the American-made Max Headroom series premieres on ABC, starring Matt Frewer and Amanda Pays. (This is the the American-made drama series, not the music video/talk show series featuring the same character.) W. Morgan Sheppard and Concetta Tomei guest star.
British publisher W.H. Allen releases the non-fiction book Doctor Who: A Celebration by Peter Haining (with uncredited contributions by Jeremy Bentham), chronicling the series up to the eve of its 20th anniversary.
NBC airs the 14th episode of the Marvel animated series Spider-Man And His Amazing Friends, starring the voices of Dan Gilvezan, Kathy Garver, and Frank Welker. This is the premiere of the very brief second season, which tells each character’s origin story.
Centuri releases the arcade video game Pleiades (spelled correctly on the arcade cabinet, though the game identifies itself onscreen as “Pleiads”), licensed from Japanese company Tehkan International.
The Soviet Union launches Soyuz 38 on a mission to the Salyut 6 space station, carrying cosmonaut Yuri Romanenko and the first Cuban in space, Arnaldo Tamayo Mendez. The week-long flight includes docking maneuvers with Salyut 6 in pitch blackness, guided only by the lights on both the Soyuz vehicle and the station, and experiments aboard Salyut. Since the long-duration Salyut 6/Soyuz 35 crew is due to leave the station soon, the Soyuz 38 crew departs in the same vehicle in which it arrived.
The 12th 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 81st episode of The Six Million Dollar Man is broadcast on ABC, starring Lee Majors and Richard Anderson. Pamela Hensley (Buck Rogers In The 25th Century) guest stars.
Barely two weeks after launch, Voyager 1 captures the first-ever photo of the Earth and its moon in their entirety, from a distance of just over seven million miles. Due to the moon’s relatively low visibility, JPL has to “brighten” the moon so it’s visible in the photo. Voyager 1 soon loses sight of Earth and the moon as it speeds toward Jupiter, a planet it won’t reach until 1979.
There’s still no word on whether or not Voyager 1 found signs of intelligent life on Earth.
ABC airs the second episode of Electra Woman & Dyna Girl, part of the Krofft Supershow Saturday morning children’s programming block. This is part two of a two-part story, each episode lasting only around 12 minutes.
The 24th episode of Filmation’s live-action Shazam! series airs on CBS, starring John Davey, Michael Gray and Les Tremayne. Linden Chiles and James Van Pattern guest star.
London Weekend Television airs the 11th episode of the alternate-future-history series The Guardians, starring Gwyneth Powell and Cyril Luckham. Elizabeth Adare (The Tomorrow People) guest stars.
The 59th episode of Irwin Allen’s adventure series Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea airs on ABC, starring Richard Basehart and David Hedison. Arthur Hill guest stars in the third season premiere.
The second episode of the time travel sitcom It’s About Time, created by Sherwood Schwarz (I Dream Of Jeannie) and starring Frank Aletter, Jack Mullaney, and Imogene Coca, is broadcast on CBS.
The 83rd episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. This is part one of the story now collectively known as Galaxy Four, the first story of the series’ third season. This episode is missing from the BBC’s archives.
NASA and the United States Weather Bureau launch the sixth experimental TIROS weather satellite, TIROS-6. Launched specifically to allow for better detection of storms during the 1962 Atlantic hurricane season, TIROS-6 has a full workload within days of launch as Hurricane Daisy forms in the Caribbean Sea and makes its way to New England. TIROS-6 finally provides a successful test for NASA’s attempts to keep a weather satellite in service for long-duration missions, lasting over a year in orbit.
British broadcaster ABC airs the second episode of Pathfinders In Space, a follow-up series to Target Luna, produced by future Doctor Who creator Sydney Newman. Peter Williams stars in a script written by Malcolm Hulke (Doctor Who) and Eric Paice (Star Maidens). Though the original master tape of this episode was later wiped for reuse, film recordings of all seven episodes would be recovered and released on DVD in the 21st century.
The 27th episode of The Adventures Of Superman airs in syndication, starring George Reeves. Noel Neill takes over the role of Lois Lane in the second season premiere.
Composer Dominic Glynn releases, via his No Bones Records label, Doctor Who: The Happiness Patrol Remixes, an EP of remixes of Glynn’s score from the 1988 Doctor Who story The Happiness Patrol. 
Sony releases the Ben Folds Five album The Sound Of The Life Of The Mind, reuniting the group after over a decade thanks to crowd-funded studio time. 
Australia’s Nine Network airs the 25th episode of K-9. The Australian-made series features no Doctor Who-related characters other than K-9. 
Syfy airs the 43rd episode of the science fiction series Eureka, starring Colin Ferguson, Salli Richardson, and Joe Morton. Niall Matter (Primeval: New World) guest stars in the third season finale.
Epic Records releases an expanded, remastered edition of the Alan Parsons Project‘s 1984 album Ammonia Avenue, with additional tracks from the original recording sessions. 
Sci-Fi Channel airs the 23rd episode of the quirky modern-day science fiction series Eureka, starring Colin Ferguson, Salli Richardson, Debrah Farentino, and Joe Morton. Lexa Doig (Andromeda) guest stars. 
The fourteenth full-time crew of the International Space Station lifts off from Russia’s Baikonur Cosmodrome aboard Soyuz TMA-9. Mikhail Tyurin and Michael López-Alegría take up residence on the ISS for 215 days; with the American space shuttle fleet back in action, longer ISS stays with larger crews are once again possible.. Arriving with them on the ISS for a nine-day stay is Iranian-born telecommunications entrepreneur (and Ansari X-Prize founder) Anousheh Ansari, who returns to Earth aboard Soyuz TMA-8 with the Expedition 13 crew. Like other “space tourists” before her, she has paid for her own Soyuz seat and mission training.
The 26th episode of the Star Trek prequel spinoff Enterprise premieres on UPN, opening the series’ second season. Matt Winston guest stars. 
Big Finish Productions releases the 12th Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range, starring Sylvester McCoy and Bonnie Langford. 
UPN airs the 44th episode of Star Trek: Voyager. Robert Pine (the father of future big-screen Captain Kirk, Chris Pine) guest stars. 
The fourth episode of Lawrence Hertzog’s paranoid spy-fi thriller Nowhere Man, starring Bruce Greenwood (Star Trek), airs on UPN. Carrie Ann Moss (The Matrix) guest stars. 
The week-long national syndication window opens for the third episode of Xena: Warrior Princess. 
UPN airs the 19th episode of Star Trek: Voyager. 
The 50th episode of the supernatural crime series Forever Knight airs in syndication, starring Geraint Wyn-Davies, Catherine Disher, Nigel Bennett, and Lisa Ryder. Geraint Wyn-Davies directs.
The 22nd episode of Lois & Clark: The New Adventures Of Superman airs on ABC, starring Dean Cain and Teri Hatcher. Denise Crosby (Star Trek: The Next Generation) guest stars in the second season premiere.
NBC airs the 53rd episode of Donald Bellisario’s science fiction series Quantum Leap, starring Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell. This is the fourth season premiere.
The recently-launched Fox Network launches its first prime-time science fiction series, Kenneth Johnson’s TV adaptation of the movie Alien Nation. Gary Graham, Eric Pierpoint and Michele Scarabelli star in a story of escaped alien slaves who inadvertently land on Earth, becoming a somewhat marginalized immigrant population. Diane Civita (V) and Tim Russ (Star Trek: Voyager) guest star in the pilot. 
The seventh episode of the American-made Max Headroom series premieres on ABC, starring Matt Frewer and Amanda Pays. (This is the the American-made drama series, not the music video/talk show series featuring the same character.) W. Morgan Sheppard and Concetta Tomei guest star. 
British publisher W.H. Allen releases the non-fiction book Doctor Who: A Celebration by Peter Haining (with uncredited contributions by Jeremy Bentham), chronicling the series up to the eve of its 20th anniversary. 
NBC airs the 14th episode of the Marvel animated series Spider-Man And His Amazing Friends, starring the voices of Dan Gilvezan, Kathy Garver, and Frank Welker. This is the premiere of the very brief second season, which tells each character’s origin story.
Centuri releases the arcade video game 
The 30th episode of Star Blazers, an English rewrite and dub of the 1974 anime series Space Battleship Yamato, airs in syndication across the U.S. 
The Soviet Union launches Soyuz 38 on a mission to the Salyut 6 space station, carrying cosmonaut Yuri Romanenko and the first Cuban in space, Arnaldo Tamayo Mendez. The week-long flight includes docking maneuvers with Salyut 6 in pitch blackness, guided only by the lights on both the Soyuz vehicle and the station, and experiments aboard Salyut. Since the long-duration Salyut 6/Soyuz 35 crew is due to leave the station soon, the Soyuz 38 crew departs in the same vehicle in which it arrived.
The 12th 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 81st episode of The Six Million Dollar Man is broadcast on ABC, starring Lee Majors and Richard Anderson. Pamela Hensley (Buck Rogers In The 25th Century) guest stars.
Barely two weeks after launch, Voyager 1 captures the first-ever photo of the Earth and its moon in their entirety, from a distance of just over seven million miles. Due to the moon’s relatively low visibility, JPL has to “brighten” the moon so it’s visible in the photo. Voyager 1 soon loses sight of Earth and the moon as it speeds toward Jupiter, a planet it won’t reach until 1979.
CBS airs the second episode of Filmation’s live-action Saturday morning science fiction series Ark II. 
The 430th episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1. Gareth Armstrong and Tim Piggott-Smith guest star.
The 27th episode of Gerry Anderson’s space adventure series Space: 1999 airs on British broadcaster ITV, starring Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, and Catherine Schell. Freddie Jones (Children Of The Stones, Dune) guest stars. 
NBC airs the second episode of Monster Squad, a live-action Saturday morning comedy starring Fred Grandy.
ABC airs the second episode of Electra Woman & Dyna Girl, part of the Krofft Supershow Saturday morning children’s programming block. This is part two of a two-part story, each episode lasting only around 12 minutes. 
The 24th episode of Filmation’s live-action Shazam! series airs on CBS, starring John Davey, Michael Gray and Les Tremayne. Linden Chiles and James Van Pattern guest star.
Thethird episode of Gerry Anderson’s space adventure series Space: 1999 premieres on British broadcaster ITV. 
London Weekend Television airs the 11th episode of the alternate-future-history series The Guardians, starring Gwyneth Powell and Cyril Luckham. Elizabeth Adare (The Tomorrow People) guest stars.
The 59th episode of Irwin Allen’s adventure series Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea airs on ABC, starring Richard Basehart and David Hedison. Arthur Hill guest stars in the third season premiere.
The second episode of the time travel sitcom It’s About Time, created by Sherwood Schwarz (I Dream Of Jeannie) and starring Frank Aletter, Jack Mullaney, and Imogene Coca, is broadcast on CBS.
The 83rd episode of Doctor Who airs on the BBC. This is part one of the story now collectively known as Galaxy Four, the first story of the series’ third season. This episode is missing from the BBC’s archives.
NASA and the United States Weather Bureau launch the sixth experimental TIROS weather satellite, TIROS-6. Launched specifically to allow for better detection of storms during the 1962 Atlantic hurricane season, TIROS-6 has a full workload within days of launch as Hurricane Daisy forms in the Caribbean Sea and makes its way to New England. TIROS-6 finally provides a successful test for NASA’s attempts to keep a weather satellite in service for long-duration missions, lasting over a year in orbit.
British broadcaster ABC airs the second episode of Pathfinders In Space, a follow-up series to Target Luna, produced by future Doctor Who creator Sydney Newman. Peter Williams stars in a script written by Malcolm Hulke (Doctor Who) and Eric Paice (Star Maidens). Though the original master tape of this episode was later wiped for reuse, film recordings of all seven episodes would be recovered and released on DVD in the 21st century.
The 27th episode of The Adventures Of Superman airs in syndication, starring George Reeves. Noel Neill takes over the role of Lois Lane in the second season premiere.