DuracellEnergizer said:
The more I read about Roddenberry, the less I like about him, both as a creator/showrunner and as a person.
That's funny. The more I know about him, the more I respect him. Because he wasn't perfect, like so many fanboys try to believe. He was a flawed human being, he was an alcoholic who had sex with every actress he hired, and at the same time he was a loving family man. He would encourage his writers to go wild with his stories and at the same time he could be a real dick to them when they wanted to go too far. He had a wonderful relationship with the fans and the actors, but a horrible relationship with the studio executives. As a writer he wrote the best Star Trek stories. And at the same time the worst Trek stories.
I like him because he WASN'T perfect.