A letter from Gene Roddenberry<\/b> to Miss Judy Thomases<\/b>, written on March 9, 1973, will be auctioned off this Saturday in England.<\/p>\n
As reported by The Examiner<\/a>, the letter, in which Roddenberry answered several questions from the correspondent, spoke about the fans of Star Trek<\/i> and took credit for the development of Spock as a sex symbol. According to Roddenberry, the fans “share the Star Trek<\/i> philosophies about life…they are interested mainly in the ideas promoted by Star Trek<\/i> rather than in a usual fan thing of merely having a crush for some particular actor. Star Trek<\/i> fans are generally anything but silly.”<\/p>\n Roddenberry spoke about what Star Trek<\/i> meant. “Star Trek<\/i> says that it has not all happened, it has not all been discovered, that tomorrow can be as challenging and adventurous as any time man has ever lived.”<\/p>\n As for the “crush for some particular actor,” Roddenberry did admit to making Spock’s looks something that would attract women. “I did purposely give him a slight look of the devil because I thought that might be particularly provocative to women,” he wrote.<\/p>\n Richard Davie<\/b>, from International Autograph Auctions, which will be auctioning off Roddenberry’s letter, had this to say about it. “This is a very interesting letter written at a time when the show was struggling and had been taken off air.”<\/p>\n To read more, head to the article located here<\/a>. Details on the auction can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A letter from Gene Roddenberry to Miss Judy Thomases, written on March 9, 1973, will…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2443],"tags":[2797,2560],"class_list":["post-5751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-merchandise","tag-correspondence","tag-gene-roddenberry"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T'Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"Merchandise<\/a>","tag_info":"Merchandise","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5751"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6791,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5751\/revisions\/6791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
“The profile of our fans run anything but typical,” wrote Roddenberry. “They range from grammar school children to university presidents and astronauts. I think the one thing that characterizes all of them no matter whatever their age is youth. It is important to the typical Star Trek<\/i> fan that there is a tomorrow.”<\/p>\n