Roddenberry said: "I really feared doing it until I got angry enough to try." It didn't really matter what Strangis was working on, as the idea of making a "Star Trek" show without his input surely pissed off Roddenberry. He came back with his own pitch, however rudimentary. Roddenberry was nearly 65, "Star Trek" was 20, and it seemed like the time was right for a reboot. Only Roddenberry was going to have it his way. According to "Star Trek" archivist Richard Arnold, Roddenberry called a meeting with Paramount to threaten legal action should they proceed on a new Trek show without him. He ended up leaving the room agreeing to make "Star Trek: The Next Generation." Arnold said:
"Someone said ... that you couldn't get lightning to strike twice in the same place, to which Gene responded, "Damnit, I could!" He walked out of that meeting having agreed to produce a new 'Star Trek' series ... hardly what he had planned going in. He was approaching his 65th birthday and he had intended to retire and spend more time with his son, Rod, who was still very young at the time."
David Gerrold, a creative consultant on "Next Generation" feels that Roddenberry's rage was, in fact, manipulated from the start. He intuited that Paramount — sneaky devils — actually wanted Roddenberry on a new "Star Trek" series, but had to resort to desperate measures when he refused. As such, the series proposed by Strangis was not anything they ever intended to make. Paramount only wanted to show that they were perfectly willing to make a Trek show without Gene ... as a bluff. Roddenberry fell for their bluff, got mad, and agreed to make a new Trek show in his own idiom.
The rest is history.
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