Biography assessment rating comment WikiProject Biography Assessment The article may be improved by following the WikiProject Biography 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article Roddenberry s sentiments on religion Reference is made to Roddenberry religion views in the section Personal Life which is probably appropriate However the he said she said statements regarding religious references in the Star Trek universe are probably inappropriate here in Roddenberry s biography Is not such discussion better placed in entries regarding Star Trek I guess from that time it was clear to me that religion was largely nonsense was largely magical superstitious things In my own teen life I just couldn t see any point in adopting something based on magic which was obviously phony and superstitious I stopped going to church as soon as it became possible to do things on my own as a teenager I made up my mind that church and probably largely the Bible was not for me I did not go back to even thinking much about it If people need to do that ignore them and maybe they will ignore you and you can go on with your own life Alexander Star Trek Creator p 37 My second wife Majel Lee Hudec and I were both raised Protestant but well before ever meeting had both left the Protestant Church in favor of non sectarian beliefs which included respect for all other religions but emphasizing the concept of God as too great and too encompassing to be explained and appreciated by any single system of belief Some aspects of Buddhism express some of our beliefs but also do some aspects of the New and Old Testaments as well as other books and philosophies Alexander Star Trek Creator p 422 It seems to me more and more with each passing year and each new massacre as many perpetrated by Christians as anyone else that the real villain is religion at least religion as generally practiced by people who somehow become sure that they and only they know the real answer How few humans there are that seem to realize that killing much less hating their fellow humans in the name of their god is the ultimate kind of perversion At any rate I ve elected to believe in a God which is so far beyond our conception and real understanding that it would be nonsense to do anything in its name other than perhaps to revere all life as being part of that unfathomable greatness Alexander Star Trek Creator p 480 Alexander David Star Trek Creator The Authorized Biography of Gene Roddenberry 1994 New York NY Penguin Group Preceding unsigned comment added by 68 52 143 152 comments There seems to be a feud going on between 68 3 136 97 and others over the inclusion of the paragraph about Roddenberry s work ethics 04 28 7 Jun 2003 UTC I think haigographic is a typo so I corrected it August 2 2006 Trekker1 here I worked on the show and with Gene Roddenberry He did not leave the show in the third season He worked right up until his death And why post mean spirited things about arguements with the studio Is this really what should be in a biography I m not sure how to get into this chat room hope this is the way I will continue to monitor his bio for accuracy and appropriate commentary Wikipedia is not meant to be mean We try to collect facts on a neutrale point of view There are a lot of sources that say that Gene was quite controversial e g or just read the autobiographies of Kirk Spock Uhura Wikipedia makes exactly the difference to the rest of the internet books voices that it shows positive and negative things of everything You can not be neutral if you don t state the negative sides of a person Please help us to make this article true by not only deleting but also contributing Thanks 06 12 1 Jul 2003 UTC Trekker1 again In the interest