12 Burst results for "Rod Roddenberry"
WGN Radio
"rod roddenberry" Discussed on WGN Radio
"Get to talk to Dean Richards from WGN TV. It's quite a thrill, isn't it? Honestly, Dean, I'm a big fan. So yes, it is a thrill. I know you find that silly, but I'm telling you, it's the truth. Um, So Samantha on sex in the city. I'm sorry. She cannot be replaced. Well, it's going to be interesting to see what they do on this section. The city reboot. I guess you might call it the this new show is going to be called. And just like that. And they brought back nearly everybody from the original show to be in this reboot. Premise of which is now we're going to visit the ladies who are now you know, 50 years of age and above. With all of the boyfriends and you know all of the side characters along the way. Cynthia Nixon signed up to be part of it with Sarah Jessica Parker, Kristin Davis, but not Kim Control. As Samantha. Apparently there's no love lost between Kim Control Sarah Jessica Parker and the rest. Kim Control just did not want anything to do with this. And everybody wondered, you know, what are they going to do, how they're going to write her off the show where they're going to bring her in at the last minute? What's going to happen, Sir Jessica Parker yesterday posted some pictures. With your co stars that included Cynthia Nixon, Kristin Davis and also a newcomer, Nicole Ari Parker. She will play a character called Lisa Todd, wet sleep, So, apparently that's going to be the new Fourth lady on the show now replacing the Samantha character, but I mean the other I agree with him. The Samantha character was 100 million. Do they bring somebody else in to be the You know, sexy, Uh, you know, say anything, do anything that kind of character or is it a completely different kind of thing? We have to wait until the show premieres on HBO Max this fall. I think it's tough, too, because we all Agent Kim Cattrall has aged and you can't really be that, you know, 35 40 year old sex bomb in a show where you've obviously now aged into your fifties probably doesn't translate Well, right. It's private school, but it would be a little awkward. I would Yeah, it might be hard to pull off. Okay, So my husband and I are on different sides of the political spectrum. In fact, he is an elected official in his town. I am I vote for the other party. The one thing we watched together. Where we don't argue is Bill Maher Because Bill Morris kind of you don't know where he's going to go. You just don't know what's going to come out of his mouth. And now I see he's rejecting the booster vaccine. Generally, Bill marred leans to the left, but sometimes he really surprises you. And says things you know that are not left at all. Not liberal at all. And one of the latest things now that he is saying is that he is going to refuse. Covid 19 booster shot. He's 64 years old. He is fully vaccinated right now, although he said he never wanted to be vaccinated. He just did it in his words to take one for the team, I guess to get, you know, get the show back up and running again. Although he did he tested positive for Covid. He's one of these people. They got vaccinated and wound up getting covid 19 anyway, asymptomatic, But he, uh he did test positive for it. But now he is saying he is not going to get the booster shot. Here are some of the things that he said about that. I know a lot of millennials. They don't think they need it, and they're probably right. I don't want a one size fits all my body may be different from yours, which you know, I understand some of the logic in there. I don't know necessarily that I would take medical advice because somebody is a millennials. But that's that's what he is saying on this if you haven't been following the news The and you do follow science. The C D. C. Is recommending that anyone who got the fighter or the Moderna vaccine get a booster shot. Eight months after receiving their second dose, But Bill Maher says he's not going to do it. Star Treks creators Son is celebrating his dad's legacy. What's that about? Yeah, this is kind of interesting. The great Gene Roddenberry. Uh, was a television executive. He was a writer. His greatest claim to fame was the Star Trek series that debuted in 1966 went on to spawn. I think it's nine other TV series of this film franchise and books and conventions and all kinds of things. Star Trek. He's truly innovative, inventive person. Passed away several years ago. But he was really responsible for all things. Star Trek. So this week he would have been 100 years old. So his son, Rod Roddenberry, Is celebrating his dad's legacy and his contributions to thinking beyond the box. That's really what Gene Roddenberry was all about. He's got a hashtag that's called Think Trek. If you want to get some more information about it, But I did a zoom chat with Rod Roddenberry about, you know, growing up in the family of Star Trek. It took me a while. As a young kid. I was very self involved and didn't really watch or care about Star Trek. I was more of a Star Wars person. Um, but over the years going to conventions, I learned a lot from fans. But of course, when my father passed away, there were many stories and letters written of people who said that their lives were changed by this T V show. And became very inspired by what my father and everyone who worked on Star Trek had created. Um and I said, this is this is something that I believe in. This is something that I want to to the best of my ability, Carry on in my own way. And then this year being my father's 100th birthday. I think, And it's an incredible opportunity to recognize that and not just honor him, but honor the philosophies and ideas that are embedded in Star Trek. Yeah..
Sci-Fi Talk
"rod roddenberry" Discussed on Sci-Fi Talk
"Hi this is tony tomato and welcome to bite here on the t. podcast network and so parenting an apocalypse. It's it's not the same way that we would do. You know how it works. Any views usually two to four minutes long but sometimes they can be a little longer. Only when you when you live long enough. All kinds of strange things happen very right in saying that. The greek heroes. Where the original superheroes in part because of the hopeful nature of genes vision but also because of its message of diversity and inclusion rod roddenberry talks about quoting gene roddenberry which is now a podcast and listen. I can't take credit for this. I say we because there is a team. I've surrounded myself by people who are more talented. I am a lot smarter than. I am a lot more hard working than i am to make. All these things happen and we've gone through and we've found. Initially i think one hundred and fifty hundred sixty quotes noted down to one hundred and since my father's birthday on august nineteenth one hundred days before that we started having celebrities and actors Say these quotes and these poets aren't just simple words. These are things that we feel are very poignant to star trek my father and where we are today as a society and on top of that we did a podcast called quoting gene roddenberry. So if you go to apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcast please look up quoting gene roddenberry We have the celebrity. Say it and then we have two very talented hosts who kind of go into the meaning of it even the short ones they really tear it apart and they say you know why was it. Relevant wasn't relevant then. Is it still relevant today. And they usually bring in a third guest to give a unique perspective on it and it is it is true they have said it in their in their monologue but My father still has a lot to say. Because digging through these old speeches and interviews where we got these quotes it is it is truly mind blowing. My father was you know. Pe- people always told. Mike told me my father was a visionary genius. These sort of things. I did a documentary. That came out in twenty two thousand twelve called trek nation where it was important to me to humanize my father because everyone put him so high up on a pedestal. And it's almost. It's really hard to to identify with someone like that. But but bringing him down to a more human Palatable sort of form allowed me as a son to connect more. And i and i hope for audience members they could see him and all his flaws but still realize he was still an incredibly brilliant thinker. Who thought about the future of humanity saw the worst that we could be and saw the best that we could be and people presented him as a futurist and i would say that's one hundred percent in it because he's his perspective was always fifty to one hundred years ahead of us There are many great thinkers out there in the world there have been and there are and there continued to be some of them simply just don't have the prestige aren't known but what puts my father in that category is that he lived in that future. If you go back a hundred years and you think about the kinds of things back then that they thought were absurd. Blasphemy offensive and terrible. And look at some of those things. Today they're commonplace. Let's jump one hundred years into the future. What do we think is observed an insulting and offensive and rude that will be commonplace and socially acceptable in the future. It's just my father was already there so he was able to put that into star trek and sort of look back and say. Why are we all bickering about this nonsense of skin. Color right now. Yes why are we bickering about personally. I love the different colors of our human rainbow. It indeed look for quoting gene roddenberry wherever you get your podcast per bite. This is tony to lana..
NASACast Audio
"rod roddenberry" Discussed on NASACast Audio
"Future spacecraft land on distant worlds. A few of the stories to tell you about this week at nasa we launched a new interactive website. Highlighting land sat nine the joint nasa and us geological survey satellite mission is targeted for launch september sixteenth from california's vandenberg space force base lands at nine. We'll continue the programs critical role in monitoring and managing land resources such as agricultural crops water and forests needed to sustain human life or more details visit massive dot gov slash lance at nine. The next spacex resupply mission to the international space station will carry a variety of nasa science investigations including a study on preventing and treating bone density loss at investigation aimed at detecting and mitigating vision disorders. And a new robotic arm demonstration that has potential uses on earth including for disaster relief. The mission is currently targeted for launch august. Twenty eighth from our kennedy space center in florida. The team working on the umbrella like adaptable deployable entry and placement technology or adept. Heat shield designed to deliver science payloads on future missions to mars and beyond is testing out a new material called spider. We've it is a woven. Fabric may think will improve the integrity of the heat shield and make it safer for larger vehicles to safely pass through the atmospheres of more distant locations on august nineteenth. We observed the one hundred birthday of late star trek creator. Gene roddenberry with a panel discussion about the groundbreaking shows legacy of inspiration. Hope and diversity is son rod roddenberry moderated the panel which included star trek actor and activist. George decay as well. As members of nasr's diverse workforce opening remarks for the hit were provided by nasa administrator. Bill nelson it also featured a nineteen seventy six recording in which gene roddenbury talked about the impact. He hoped the show would have on diversity and inclusion. The whole show was an attempt to say that humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day that it begins not just to tolerate but to take a delight in differences in ideas and differences in life forms. We transmitted roddenbury's recorded remarks into space for the agencies deep space network asked the panel. Discussion was happening. Astronomers have spotted a group of young stars and star forming gas clouds sticking out of one of our milky way. Galaxy's spiral arms like a splinter from a piece of lumber this previously unrecognized feature of the galaxies sagittarius arm stretches some three thousand light years and was found with help from nasa spitzer space telescope prior to its retirement.
Sci-Fi Talk
"rod roddenberry" Discussed on Sci-Fi Talk
"I used to be a wizard figuring everything out and while i am. I'm not. I'm not in my oldest years yet. I'm i'm forty seven. And i'm having trouble figuring out a number of things these days but luckily i've got an eight year old. Who's teaching me more and more. Oh that's great that's great. Yeah being adapted to risk. My child is older but She's she's a teacher and she's thirty six but She's doing well she's doing well. Congratulations thank you rod. It's a privilege to talk to you. And i do appreciate all the worker doing and keeping your father's legacy alive and You know it's important for people to realize who he was. He hit on an amazing idea and an inspired me to do what. I'm doing honestly this picture. This picture of the enterprise was that the intrepid here in new york they had an exhibit would the original enterprise air and it was like lit up. It's really cool. That's gonna say that's a beautiful shot. And then i got. They had a replica of the one. Oh seventy that. I got the chance to sit in the command share and the and took the kobayashi meru test Yeah my wife. And i went. We had a great time. And a lot of the props costumes were there. And i've also been lucky to at san diego comic con. When i worked there. I got access to see all the costumes from discovery season. One also card. Recently the klingons pacers were amazing into the level of detail..
Sci-Fi Talk
"rod roddenberry" Discussed on Sci-Fi Talk
"I've got someone better to explain this. And she she said. Where's where's where's eugene roddenberry. Where's the son of star trek and she had me come out and center stage in front of all these people which trust me it was. I've been on stage in front of people that usually my star trek peers. They can i can seek out with These were people. That were there to see whoopi goldberg. But she was so gracious. I got to explain it and just probably the most lovely charming female actress that i'd met to that date on star trek growing up with this as a young man. Did you wayne. Was it where it's like. I'd add something really special here win tonight. So i would say that i was A very late bloomer. I talk about intellectual evolution. Well i i perhaps a little stunted in that area. It took me a long time as a young kid. I watched of course my cartoons. But then it was starsky and hydrogen adam. Twelve midnight rider and those things. I wasn't interested in star trek. In fact i loved star wars. I had a star wars cake at my birthday are wars and not to say anyone's better than the other they can both coexist i love star wars and i love star trek. Anyhow i really didn't understand star star trek until sadly after my father passed away. Don't get me wrong. I started to get hints of it but that was during my teenage years when i was also very rebellious in wanted nothing to do with anything. My parents told me. I should do so so after he passed away. I was very tender. And ron opened my eyes and my ears to to what star trek was began talking to fans and hearing stories in reading letters of people saying that star trek not just inspired them but help them change their life or change their perspective or remove their perceived limitations and most of these stories end with. You know I i now am doctor lawyer teacher. Whatever or i'm now married with kids. Or i believe in humanity. I mean they're such and so many inspiring stories out there. It blew me away. And that started my transformation to becoming so proud of the roddenberry name. And so proud of the legacy. My father left that that i really want nothing more than to.
Sci-Fi Talk
"rod roddenberry" Discussed on Sci-Fi Talk
"I can tell you i think casting for discovery and picard Those have been sensational. Yes i mean really sensational So i am very impressed with that the actors and the caliber and the abilities of been If there's ever a weak story the acting and casts keep me.
Sci-Fi Talk
"rod roddenberry" Discussed on Sci-Fi Talk
"Say. Why are we all bickering about this nonsense of skin. Color right now. I guarantee you in the future it will be a non issue so anyhow rambo ramble rambo ramble. A word. i okay jim. Great stuff and he he was he was quite a man. I've actually had the pleasure being around a while that i've actually covered i final conflict near viewing a few of the people on that show in new viewing the entire crew the android bitter when the show i went on the air. Yes so. I was lucky to do that. And i've been speaking to trevor on an off good and also that's amazing film. You did that. Three hundred sixty degrees. Film witch not revolutionary. Your dad would giving you an atta boy for that one for sure. I appreciate that and once again. You just mentioned a couple of names but we hired people who were incredibly talented. a greg. Arana wits is yeah. Whatever he puts his hands on literally becomes a masterpiece. It truly does that. Those of you out here. Look greg arana wits. He's on social media. He is whatever you can learn about him there. He had a career with some of the biggest people in hollywood and then just decided to go out and do things that he loves really interesting film. I remember talking to one of the actors and they said normally when you're not on camera directly you can just kinda go somewhere but you're on camera all the time because you're sitting there and you have to stay in character is really why amer shot three hundred sixty degrees. That mean. no one was safe. You had to include the set directors and producers and everyone else had to be behind the set. No-one could be an and you couldn't let your guard down for a second. No absolutely not. I get a very special pleasure watching the other star trek shows and hearing your mom's voice in the episode as the computer ship a brilliant move that was and she continued for many years into voyager..
Sci-Fi Talk
"rod roddenberry" Discussed on Sci-Fi Talk
"I believe we've got four of them out in terms of photographs and i believe i think there's a fifth one on the way but he's got a lot of easter eggs and subtleties in them. And i mean they're gorgeous. They're incredible we've got cash. yes yes We spent An listen i can't take credit for this. I say we because there is a team. I've surrounded myself by people who are more talented. I am lot smarter than. I am a lot more hard working than i am to make. All these things happen and we've gone through and we've found. Initially i think one hundred and fifty hundred sixty quotes not down to one hundred and since my father's birthday on august nineteenth one hundred days before that we started having celebrities and actors Say these quotes and these poets aren't just simple words. These are things that we feel are very poignant to star trek my father and where we are today as a society and on top of that we did a podcast called quoting gene roddenberry. So if you go to apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcast please look up quoting gene roddenberry We have the celebrity. Say it and then we have two very talented hosts who kind of go into the meaning of it even the short ones they really tear it apart and they say you know why was it relevant. Was it relevant then. Is it still relevant today. And they usually bring in a third guest to give a unique third perspective on it and it is it is true they have said it in their in their monologue but My father still has a lot to say. Because digging through these old speeches and interviews where we got these quotes it is. It is truly mind-blowing. My father was an. I'll give you a moment to say something. I'm sorry i know no no. It's okay. This is great stuff P people always told. Mike told me my father was a visionary genius. These sort of things i. I did a documentary. That came out in twenty twenty twelve called trek nation where it was important to me to humanize my father because everyone put him so high up on a pedestal. And it's almost. It's really hard to to identify with someone like that. But but bringing him down to a.
Sci-Fi Talk
"rod roddenberry" Discussed on Sci-Fi Talk
"Davis. I'm the composer of the matrix. Matrix reloaded and the matrix revolutions. Hi this is. John delancey kind of the things that aren't there. Well sometimes you have that experience anyway but people at all day thanks in part because of the hopeful nature of genes vision but also because of its message of diversity and inclusion rod. It's great to talk to you. I pleasure. I actually had the pleasure of seeing your father at a star trek convention at the old commodore hotel. Here in new york city already was along. The original cast with zero except for mr shat and we had a great time. And it's a memory of never forget. You know i'm trying to hunt down recordings of all of those lectures my father. Did i have a few of them. Which are quite spectacular. Listen to because you know there was someone. They're recording it. Oh yeah i find them fascinating to listen to what roddenberry productions is doing Honoring him at the amazing age of one hundred 'cause i i consider him immortal because of what he's done really And getting the quotes from all these people that are working on all the different shows pretty fantastic. Talk about how that came about. The i mean there's many aspects to it You know it comes first of all it comes from me personally. I mean i love my father and to think that he would have been a hundred on august. Nineteenth is just. It's just incredible. Would i also wanted to do as i do with everything that is star. Trek related star. Trek is a platform to continue getting the message out there. The message of infinite diversity in infinite combinations which is the true appreciation for all things that are different regardless of form. But more so in idea you know in star trek they were always out there exploring the galaxy but they weren't looking for strange looking aliens. They were looking for intelligent beings that looked at the universe in a different way because we as a species had gotten to.
Sci-Fi Talk
"rod roddenberry" Discussed on Sci-Fi Talk
"Hi this is tony tomato and welcome to bite here on the t. podcast network and so parenting an apocalypse. It's it's not the same way that we would do. You know how it works. Any views usually two to four minutes long but sometimes they can be a little longer. Only when you when you live long enough. All kinds of strange things happen very right in saying that. The greek heroes. Where the original superheroes in part because of the hopeful nature of genes vision but also because of its message of diversity and inclusion rod roddenberry celebrating his father. Gene roddenberry centennial. In many ways first of all it comes from me. Personally i mean. I love my father and to think that he would have been a hundred on august. Nineteenth is just. It's just incredible. Would i also wanted to do as i do with everything that is star. Trek related star. Trek is a platform to continue getting the message out there. The message of infinite diversity in infinite combinations which is the true appreciation for all things that are different regardless of form but more so in idea in star trek. They were always out there exploring the galaxy but they weren't looking for strange looking aliens. They were looking for intelligent beings that looked at the universe in a different way because we as a species had gotten to the point where we realized that it was our intellectual evolution that moved us for our ability to digest and engage in new in. Different ideas is what made us smarter and able to survive. Using my father's centennial. We wanted to continue to get that message out there. Now because of real world circumstances and cove it in the pandemic you know we. We wanted to do more. Public things are in. Unfortunately we've just had to cancel another one but we're hoping to time shift it to twenty twenty two for now. We're focusing on the the online campaigns. And the the one that we really have the umbrella is think trek. Guess and that that is everything simple as the fun part of his anyone out there. Who's got a phone and a camera these days. If you see anything that makes you think of star trek. It could be the shape of branches that looked like the star trek insignia. Perhaps the clouds in the sky looked like the enterprise stain on your desk. Whatever the case may be take a picture of it. Put it on whatever social media platform you want and hashtag think trek. I guarantee if you go there now and look up trek. You'll see some wonderful Photos very clever very inspiring and it's it's it is the fun part but as i say the ideas keep the subtext message going through We have another one called make trek. Which we've we've employed a an incredibly talented blocked builder by the name of san meal hat maker. He was on the first season of lego masters. And he he not on the show. But i've seen his office in. He has easing beautiful collages of of famous actors and actresses and socially relevant a objects in that he's made just from memory and he's incredibly talented so we asked him to come. Aboard and make some items some some clauses the mosaics that are representative of star trek. And its waspy and my father. We've we've i believe we've got four of them out in terms of photographs and i believe i think there's a fifth one on the way But he's got a lot of easter eggs and subtleties in them. And i mean they're gorgeous. They're incredible use the hashtag sink trek to participate her bite. This is tony to lana..
Sci-Fi Talk
"rod roddenberry" Discussed on Sci-Fi Talk
"How it fits in with zeke. So than town is very much. The town of nob sperry is very very much based on the town. I grew up which was munroe new york monroe's a little bigger than knobs ferry. But not by much And i really. I did that because so much of the story. You know there are so many aspects of my childhood end things that me and my best friend did In the story. I wanted to be able for the setting to feel real and i wanted it to feel like where i grew up so it just it just fit well together. I mean the only exception is that there is not a john. Enormous cemetery in munroe new york. It's very of course not yet. But that's cool. I mean that's the beauty of creating your own story as you can really adding aren't there and make it a lot or spooky. Which is can you tell us a little bit about z. And her her first adventure here for sure. So goes girl is the story of z puckett. Her best friend. Elijah and her bullied turned friend. Nellie you're over the course of the book and it opens up with again. A big storm was into town and after storms past they realized and people are missing and even stranger a new principal as arrive. This principle has a way of helping people manifest whatever their deepest wishes are starts to go very badly and while all of this is happening z. Start seeing things and starts to realize that she has the ability to see ghosts and the three kids team up to save their families because everyone is sort of infected by this principle scratch so yeah they team up to save their families in the town and you a ghost to other so we do say that this is the first of a set of adventures for her or is it pretty much a standalone eight. It was sold as a standalone. But i do love these characters. And if i had the opportunity to tell another story with him i would do in a heartbeat absolutely. Is there a little bit of yunesi. Yeah i'm pretty much stubborn. She is for sure. I love scary stories to and loved him. When i was you know her age. Yeah i think so. Look for ghost girl wherever you get your books. There's more time capsule so stay tuned. let's get back to time capsule on the sf t- podcast network makeup. Artist bruce grayson. James mckinnon talk award show makeup. Mr mckinnon works on the star trek shows discovery and picard when you're working with actors and not only for the special but also for the oscars you know they come in to be made up to be on camera or to shoot a special I guess you do you get to know even ahead of time. Their face and and kind of like what problem areas are might be so you can enhance a little bit. Sometimes i do. Sometimes i get a good heads up. I know of a lot of the publicists in town that handled most of the major stars. So i have a good arrangement with them. They go on the red carpet with makeup by the time that they get to me and that's somewhere by the way around twelve o'clock in the afternoon at the oscars. Maybe you have somebody come out because you have to be at the location at the dolby usually except for this year by by thirty and then they're walking the red by four by four three thirty four so by the time that they have done that. They're missed makeup dissipates. So i usually try to talk to the makeup artist especially when it comes to Female make-up's in what their intent was an have them. I always ask them to travel with some of the pertinent things in there that they've done their makeup in their cocktail bag or with her publicist in a little bag and i do their touch-ups based on that that's only recently. Were people really trying to coordinate that because sometimes you know a actor before they're presenting really. Is that makeup moment. That make that time that they're putting makeup on their face is really for them to get inside of what they wanna do on camera. So he's almost like the ritual of a baseball player tying. His shoes would is a great analogy. So i'm there to help them. And sometimes i'm there to really help them. You know and and that goes for the winners sue because you know tiers of joys just look like rivers of mess when it comes to me and make up you know so if somebody's crying and it's happened many times after they win a they come to me and i clean them up tonight. We have to do it in very little on now. For mariah's christmas special. Are you brought in early on like for pre-production to kind of get an idea. What kind of makeup benita besides the regular makeup snood. They might even do some exotic things. Well we'll in mariah's for mariah's remark carries match from this christmas special. We actually did come in very early. I got the call very early somewhere around a july that they were trying to do this. And what did i think if they if we could even do. Make up during cove. Ed so we started to run an i had already done one. Tv pilot so so we we started talking about. How runako vince safety department. Even as early as that and then dessert a story or the looks and yes that was production of about. I was probably for three weeks before we get the sound stage. You know making sure that we could socially distanced all the performers that they had their own kids of makeup and how we were going to construct this. We had bannon tables twelve feet away from each other. It was pretty amazing. If you could see it we took over the whole los angeles convention center. When i have to say that we did everything possible and made it is completely safe. It impact. I had no even forms about it being the safest place on the planet it you know as far as shooting. 'cause we really look to all the great extents to to to great expense to make sure it was safe. I enjoy live shows in. I and i love when bruce calls and asks for me to help him because One just a combined effort between two great artists that can pull anything out of our hats in that end. Those type of shows need that as well with performers in changes. And it's it's it's an exciting experience so Just that opportunity is great and to work with bruce. Obviously as great as well so was for the same for me with james that we've been working together probably for ten fifteen years fifteen where to start coming in on on on some of the award shows in some of the tv specials. Yeah i mean. The good thing is is bruce's amazing makeup artist. I'm amazing makeup artist. I do beauty and prosthetics. Bruce does beauty and all. The other stuff beards mustaches. All that kind of stuff so when it comes together and there's specialty stuff we all have to be in different places at the same time so if he asked me to do something he doesn't have to question that I'm not going to be able to do it. I can go off and run and do it. Or if i can't do something he knows or i know that he can go do it. So wherever whatever show ron or whatever Thing were in we both can just go and go take care of it. This year marked a milestone for star trek fans as gene roddenberry would've turned one hundred years this year. I spoke to his son. Rod roddenberry about that and some of the events being planned johner. His father getting the quotes from all these people that are working on all the different shows. Pretty fantastic talk about how that came about. I mean there's many aspects to it You know first.
Sci-Fi Talk Time Capsule
"rod roddenberry" Discussed on Sci-Fi Talk Time Capsule
"He was a kid with watching next generation. One time and talk too bad. We never had a real enterprise face because the enterprise stay shovel was just a test ship a drop shipped so from from the smallest acorns mighty oaks grow and he just got on a chair about reaching out to people You know like nasa people retired nasa people project managers and then people in education. About what would it take to have a real enterprise fly and he got advice about. Oh you know have be. You can do it real cheap. Maybe have it be a inflatable or have it be a model. That would be a stunt like no. I don't a stunt flight. I want to be a real working flight and a science and have it. You know. honor the name enterprise. But the whole thing would be an image to all inspiring science fiction from star trek onward heinlein and all the other authors. The future optimistic looking scifis opposed to dystopia in post holocaust kind of neil horrible futures dramatic but not especially start brings out in the spirit of going into the future that people love and and the reason why there's been this mutual love affair between nasa and star trek wound up over the last three or four years assembling this team. He has the time. Nasa educator of the year runs alinsky and in allah minutes project manager. And she oversaw the eight billion dollar expansion of airports and For dekker's retired retired still active but not actively at nasa engineers chief engineer and he worked on shuttle he worked on skylab he used on several space missions he worked on pluto new or new new rising. The the probe. It's just about to go into action. There's some you know. Exciting people but then Aside from the rocket scientists in the educators the just a few months he's been working on the promotion and the website and in the volunteer. Call and you know at any level the the expert volunteers and the people to to speak locally. They want approval from the national space society. Which is like the planetary. It's like one of the oldest. The oldest american pro space development you know civilian private organizations saying gene roddenberry and major in their times. We're both on their board of governors. So there's just circling around there. So that's that's in a nutshell aside from the fact that if an eight foot orbiter launching five years grassroots designed grassroots funded and carrying a hundred or more student experiments from k. through grad school across the steam science technology engineering arts and naff representing and. Then it's also turned into a test bed for some for some demo for some aerospace article Check them that wanna fly before they can get a contract usually a demo flight which was totally unexpected. And it's turn to that. So he i think it's hard to wrap your hands around it but that didn't nutshell unmanned in other words going on man. Yeah yeah it makes. The crap is eight feet but that would that would cost to it and the are getting to in liability much less way down. But yeah so we had an open air and it's global. We've had an open call for the design contest has happened and then increase from around the world and a guy who started in astrophysics but wound up to family. Dna was was art and he worked at a game. He was in filming works at a game company. Now families on netflix. And he's the one who designed the winner which we just now headline sam site is beautiful and it's It's only eight feet long. But he designed it. I'd never so we interviewed. He designed it as if it was a giant like a craft. One hundred approve one hundred fifty the oreo there in the middle. That's kind of hugging a central unit. That's supposed to be rotating you know opposite. Lee rotating magnetic coils to provide anti-graft. You know i'm not anti gravity and that blue glass area is the bridge You know put a design flare into also making it something. That would be practical because that was the idea of the design so now we have a design in the craft on. You know we're gonna move forward with all these rolling out all these from the. The education group is working on Contacting it's it's going to the teachers in classrooms all over the country. We've got people that have worked with students and work with student projects that were on Lynn has worked with like shuttle student project. And and orbital like over to One off mission in projects and the funding is totally from from people everyday people. Yeah that's the idea. That's part of you know he. He had a couple of Catchphrases came up for the the kinds of scribe at one of them one of them. Was you know science fiction science fact. We're actually the space program is trying to do that every day but one of them was the budget right now is and this dotting. When you're you come out of the world you know. Kick starters and people are doing their their movies and film projects and songs and books and things album and you say forty million. That's kinda staggering. Sean says it's not forty million from anyone person so the line that came up with this kind of Twenty dollars from two million people. He'd rather be very grassroots. It's not a kick starter go. There's no ticking clock there's no fifteen levels of rewards but what happens is you can even give more obviously and we're going to A lot of entrepreneurs a lot of space developers on some nonprofits We've heard rod roddenberry. And he's given us a guest and been endorser. We're looking for at least two thirds of the You know everyday people hopefully dollars or more whatever country they live in the. Here's the thing when you do that. You're not just the donor and you get to keep up with all the news going by your virtual crew member. That's your name goes on a chip. That flies the first enterprise when it will reenter which is another part of. This won't be just amy's face junk and it will reenter be recovered and then go on tour and then eventually wind up in a game. And i know i will talk to the smithsonian's air and space museum and there initially you know they're saying well. This sounds interesting. Jump in and start the process. Of course that'd be funded and fly and get back. But the point is our virtual crew around the world you know after it comes back they can go see it on tour of the museum science center or they can see it at its final place and go up and talking when people go to ellis island either. They look up their ancestors. You know on the three people can go and see their name. I was. I was aboard the first enterprise. I fear enterprise the say the nss. Enterprise the national spaces i. It's it's had a slow story. We didn't They didn't say slow. It's been gradual they We're up to we the first milestone one hundred thousand because that's when we'll turn around and And and start the design work with space works. We're it'll be. Launched on a spacex booster. And the and those guys spacex you unless company and then space works. There's another one that's gonna fabricate the actual craft on it They and everyone else that sean talk to the team. Talk with have been great about giving a break 'cause we had some space people say just for forty million. Is that be way more expensive than that. And because people have been giving you know in-kind or they've been giving breaks to a nonprofit thank you for having us on today and.