Original sentence: At the time of Roddenberry's death, almost all of his former co-workers were so angry at Roddenberyy that they refused to go to his funeral.Fontana, and in book and articles by Harlan Ellison.It was written by his close associate for 17 years, Susan Sackett.Many writers on the show report that ideas they developed were later passed off by Roddenberry as his own ideas.Other writers reported that Roddenberry lied about their contributions to the show in public at Star Trek conventions.Roddenberry also did previous work in westerns and tried to get other science fiction series off the ground, mostly without success.Roddenberry was confronted by said writers, and apologized to them, but went to on repeat his false claims.Roddenberry's contributions to "Star Trek" are very controversial.Rodenberry's propensity for exaggerrating his role in Star Trek is legendary and well known to scholars of the science-fiction community, and extremely well documented.Supporters of Gene Roddenberry hold that a hagiograohy, "Inside Trek: My Secret Life with Star Trek Creator Gene Roddenberry" is a more accurate account of his life.These issues are well documented, and have been discussed in a great many books and interviews, including Gene Roddenberry: The Myth and the Man Behind Star Trek by Joel Engel, and the books by Star Trek Producer Bob Justman, science-fiction convention talks by Star Trek writer Dorothy C.This book is described as highly inaccurate by many of Roddenberry's former colleagues
Edited sentence: A more accurate portrayal of Roddenberry was written by his close associate for 17 years, Susan Sackett, in the book, "Inside Trek: My Secret Life with Star Trek Creator Gene Roddenberry.According to some, his contributions to "Star Trek" are very controversial.He also did previous work in westerns and tried to get other science fiction series off the ground, mostly without success.Some of the writers on the show report that ideas they developed were later passed off by Roddenberry as his own ideas.These issues are discussed in the book Gene Roddenberry: The Myth and the Man Behind Star Trek by Joel Engel, a man who never actually met Gene Roddenberry