Executive producers are Heather Kadin, Aaron Baiers, Olatunde Osunsanmi, Frank Siracusa, John Weber, Rod Roddenberry, and Trevor Roth.

Source: https://www.comingsoon.net/tv/news/1271418-paramount-star-trek-discovery-ending-with-season-5

Franklin Roosevelt was the Gene Roddenberry of his generation.

Source: https://comicbook.com/startrek/news/star-trek-against-pancreatic-cancer-pancan-purplestride-jonathan-frakes-armin-shimerman-john-billingsley-kitty-swink-picard-enterprise-tng/

Roddenberry did not want to use the villains from "The Original Series" — his "TNG" production bible says Klingons and Romulans are verboten.

Source: https://www.slashfilm.com/1364741/gene-roddenberry-star-trek-no-interest-worf/

The name of series creator Gene Roddenberry appears at the end of every episode or film.

Source: https://www.cbr.com/lucille-ball-star-trek-first-episode/

The saga's creator, Gene Roddenberry, was a veteran whose hopes for humanity's future were shaped by the horrors of World War II.

Source: https://www.cbr.com/mbenga-strange-new-worlds-protocol-12-klingon-war/

Westerns idealized history, while Roddenberry idealized the future.

Source: https://www.slashfilm.com/1368378/star-trek-deep-space-9-tv-western-inspiration/

When series creator Gene Roddenberry envisioned a future to contain his sci-fi epic, he wanted it to be one where humanity had "grown up."

Source: https://www.cbr.com/strange-new-worlds-fans-people-flawed-future-still/