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TIL that fans were so fanatical about ‘Star Trek’ that they made Gene Roddenberry nervous. The TV show’s creator said “It frightens me when I learn of 10,000 people treating a Star Trek script as if it were Scripture. I certainly didn’t write Scripture”

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