Rod Roddenberry celebrated a birthday as a child with a “Star Wars” cake, ordered by his dad, Gene Roddenberry, the creator of “Star Trek,” and his mother, Majel Barrett, an iconic “Star ...

It can be hard, looking at Roddenberry’s contributions to Trek, to see where he isn’t taking credit for someone else’s work (Gene Coon, for instance, or script editor D.C. Fontana ...