The problem is is Gene Roddenberry Is not who made star trek what it is. You need DC Fontaine and Gene Coon and for TNG you need Ronald D Moore and Michael Pillar and to some extent Rick Berman for putting the limitations on those writers to drive creativity.
The problem is people don’t realize, like with Batman. Bob Kane had a good idea but it was really Bill Finger that really made Batman what we know today.
Just like with Bob, Gene Roddenberry knew how to take credit for others work and create the myth of one man doing it all.
JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 18 hours ago
Agree with all that, but:
He certainly was the one most responsible, though. Yeah, there was a huge issue of him taking credit for other peoples’ work, but it was indeed him with the vision, and him constantly perfecting scripts before he turned them over to the production team. Without him there is no Star Trek, period.
Humans are complex, and my read is that he was one of those ‘benevolent dictator’ types who was useful for a while, before everyone had enough of his shit. Berman was kind of similar from what I understand…