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20th Century Genius Award Paper – Gene Roddenberry

20th Century Genius Award Paper – Gene Roddenberry

Researched and written by: Michael J. Spindler

The authors € ™ nomination for the 20th Century Genius Award goes to Gene Roddenberry. Mr. Roddenberry € ™ s gift to the world a message human condition and the infinite possibilities of human civilization into their own hands. Through the appearance of a simple program, low-budget fiction science, Roddenberry submitted on a weekly basis, moral tales â € œusing futuristic situations as analogies to current problems in Earth.â € (Day D) In a time when America was going through turmoil and geopolitical, social and political Roddenberry gave his audience hope for the future direction and seamless way to get on today.

Measuring the cultural and social impact of a television program or event is never easy. However, there are numerous signs that Star Trek has had an influence on the lives of many people. This can be seen in a variety of forms, including in the dictionaries of the consumer markets originally invented words and phrases for the show, to the testimonies of people who say that his career and life choices were influenced by Star Trek. . (D-Day)

The reader need not be a connoisseur of science fiction, or even have an appreciation for the television series Star Trek. However, readers € ™ s life had been affected directly and indirectly by Roddenberry € ™ s vision. â € West Trek also attracts and excites generations viewers about advanced science and engineering, and is almost the only show that represents scientists and engineers in a positive way, in his role models.â € (Batchelor, 1993)

A younger generation was inspired by the vision of â € œWhat if? â € in the world of technology, astronomy, physics, engineering, etc.. This inspiration led to a boom in technological advances of cell phones to propel ion unit, now in use on interplanetary probes. From the 1970s until today, was almost as if Roddenberry gave an overview of future technologies and how technological advances contribute to pushing forward the civilization in search of a better world. Now the dream to â € œWhat if? â € has become reality and new technologies come easier, faster, and for any coincidence in the direction for use as a player in Roddenberry € ™ s television series.

Roddenberry € ™ s intention was to use Star Trek as a platform to play the real life issues under the guise of entertainment. â € œCultural output is thus seen as a mirror of social and political inputs € "a reflection the kinds of fears, dreams and concerns of society.â € (Brynen, 1999) Society as a whole may not be aware of the direction that people are taking in the world. That is until an artist holds a mirror to the face of humanity, providing an opportunity for self-examination and reflection. By submitting this reflection a public that is trapped in history and character interaction, without even realizing the message, the audience begins to transform own ideas about the world around them and their role in the world.

For example, perhaps one of the most carefully orchestrated relationships played through many incarnations was a race aliens known as Klingons. The introduction of this exotic species is an indirect representation of real life Cold War enemy, the Russians and the fear of communism. The 1960s was a critical period for the world, as a constant nuclear threat was real and ever present. Roddenberry € ™ s development of Klingon and war as the company came from the main characters presented a challenge of tolerance and attempts to find peaceful solutions to their origins opposites and cultural attitudes. As in real life, there were occasional military conflicts, but the message still is to continue working through cultural differences for understanding and peaceful coexistence.

The author I can not say that Star Trek changed political thinking, logic, or motivations, but the impact in the social conscience is clear that society began to evolve through the 1970s and through the collapse of the Soviet government. If the reader asks a young person about how the Cold War affected his life, the author would venture to guess that the defendant would have to ask â € œWhat was the war Cold? â €. In the years before the days of the fall of the Soviet Union, military tensions have remained high between the U.S. and Soviet Union, Society € ™ s view of the diminished threat little more time through the decades following the 1960s. It should this to a shared fear of mutually assured destruction (MAD) and developing an analysis that the population of the Soviet Union were much like Americans in the common aspirations and dreams? Would the people of Earth survived without one or the other, or understand a MAD? In Roddenberry € ™ s vision, both opponents, the crew of the Enterprise and the Klingons were equally capable of destroying the other, possibly significant losses in the process. But Roddenberry € ™ s message was always one to find a way to celebrate peace and shared in common.

Before the 1960s, in the authors opinion € ™, America might well have been the icon of white supremacy and ethnic ignorance. Roddenberry once again pushed for diversity in its vision the future. A time when people of all ethnicities come together as equals in a quest for knowledge and exploration.

Roddenberry provides a multi-ethnic, including an African American woman, a Scot, a Japanese-American, and most notably, an alien, the half-Vulcan Mr. Spock. In the second season added Roddenberry a crew member of Russia at a time when the United States are involved in a tense Cold War with the Soviet Union. Blacks and women were also scientists and doctors on the ship. (Day, nd)

A unique feature of ignorance, but can be coaxed out of existence through exposure to situations that are not normally seen in the commonplace. Roddenberry presented to families in a week basis, the adventures and exciting survival stories, people began to see beyond ethnic representations of the characters and saw a team that achieved the incredible.

Was this tolerance or acceptance by the common people of other ethnic groups? Whatever the first step, the company has continued to evolve. The abolition of ignorance has transformed neighborhoods, the workplace, and all other aspects of life into pure social integration. Just 25 years earlier, before the issue of Star Trek, Japanese Americans were sent to â € € œcampsâ without regard to their innocence or place in society. This action was based solely on racial bias on the part of government authorities, who were a representation of the American people.

Perhaps more in the minds of outside observers is that the 1960s represented the birth of civil rights, woman € ™ s rights and other minority concerns at the time. In no other means of communication at the time that representation of ethnic diversity and equal sharing of roles such as scientists estimate, officials, doctors and engineers. Added to the boiler of diversity was the weekly interaction with alien races. Sometimes there would be no conflict or difficulty share, but in the end, the message was the same, understanding and appreciation of the differences between the various races, could bring peace to what might have been a volatile situation.

The integration of ethnic and cultural diversity that the world now enjoys could never have been forced to a company. Roddenberry € ™ s genius was in their ability to present the world a vision of a future based on the change in how humans interact as a society today. â € œGene Roddenberry once said his inspiration came from â € œconcentrating something about our world that bothers mea € "that I have quite moved by what I write about how in the world of Star Trek, itâ € ™ s do € â € differently.â (Brynen, 1999) While society continues to grow and shared ethnic diversity is celebrated, perhaps the advances in technology, that sparked the imagination of millions and changed our world help advance the human race to the stars and beyond. But nobody is going to the stars until the company moves forward as one. â € TEOAE its lowest Basic, Star Trek was a humanist message simple: humanity okay.â € (Day, nd)

References – no references Gaza article

Batchelor, DA (1993). The Science of Star Trek. Retrieved on January 29, 2008, from http://ssdoo.gsfc.nasa.gov/education/just_for_fun/startrek.html

Brynen, R. (1999, February 08;). Mirror, mirror? The Politics of Science Fiction Television. Retrieved on January 29, 2008, from http://www.arts.mcgill.ca/MEPP/exofile/sftv.html

Day, D. (Nd). Star Trek as a cultural phenomenon. Retrieved on January 29, 2008, from http://www.centennialofflight.gov/essay

Researched and written by: Michael J. Spindler

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