How 'The Twilight Zone' Inspired 'Star Trek'

Rod Serling Inspired Gene Roddenberry's Creativity. Rod Mentored Roddenberry.

Star Trek fans and The Twilight Zone fans dabble in a dedicated pastime: crossover content consumption. Think of it like hardcore fandom popularly known as Trekkies or Trekkers meeting T-Zoners.

These sci-fi aficionados often deeply love both legendary TV shows exploring humanity’s boundaries of super advanced technology meshing or clashing with human nature, society and philosophy. And while many passionate fans may well know these legendary classics, born from the creative genius of creators Gene Roddenberry and Rod Serling, it’s not widely known that without Serling’s dark, often twisted journey into the imagination, there may have never been the launch of Roddenberry’s sci-fi Wagon Train To The Stars. Here’s how classic Twilight Zone inspired the sci-fi legend of Star Trek.

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