Rod Roddenberry, Trevor Roth Courtesy of CBS
Trevor Roth, COO of Roddenberry Entertainment, also signs on for duty.
CBS's upcoming Star Trek series has added two more members to its intergalactic crew, with Rod Roddenberry, son of Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, and Trevor Roth, COO of Roddenberry Entertainment, named as executive producers on the new project Thursday.
They will join Alex Kurtzman, Heather Kadin and Bryan Fuller as executive producers on the show, which will debut on CBS in early 2017 before transferring exclusively to CBS's All Access digital video on demand service. News of the addition of Roddenberry and Roth follows Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan's Nicholas Meyer joining the show's writing staff last week.
"Gene Roddenberry, the Great Bird of the Galaxy, left a finely feathered nest for all who love ‘Star Trek’ to enjoy,” showrunner Fuller said in a statement. “It is only fitting that Rod Roddenberry and Roddenberry Entertainment join our new Trek adventure to ensure that his father’s legacy of hope for the future and infinite diversity in infinite combinations runs through our tales as Gene Roddenberry intended."
Roddenberry added, "While I will always be humbled by its legacy and the legions of fans who are its guardians, it’s a genuine honor to be joining a team of imaginative and incredibly capable individuals whose endeavor it is to uphold the tenets of Star Trek’s legacy while bringing it to audiences in a new era and on a contemporary platform."
In addition to producing the 2011 documentary Trek Nation, Roddenberry served as a consulting producer on the fan-produced Star Trek: New Voyages series released online between 2003 and 2011.
