You're listening to a Rodberry podcast.

Hold on there, we'll be right back.

But right now, time for tails in the mean streets

with genealogy, a Roddenberry pond.

Episode 13, Oil Lease.

Welcome to Mission Law Genology.

I'm Norman Low.

And I'm Earl Green.

Each week on Genology, we go digging down into Gene Roddenberry's early TV writing career,

nearly a decade before the creation of Star Trek to see if he was

working the kind of messages into his prior work that we came to associate with

the final frontier. This week Gene rides shotgun with the Highway Patrol one last time.

But maybe shotgun isn't such a good thing when the bad guys have a bizuka.

Earl will be back with trivia in a moment, but first, here's how you can reach us.

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conversation about the works of Gene Rothenberry.

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Now, before we get to trivia we've got some exciting news

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