Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry's first wife can't reap profits from the "Next Generation" and "Deep Space Nine" follow-up series, an appeals court ruled.
Eileen Roddenberry, who divorced her husband in 1969 when the first TV series was a commercial flop, was not entitled by the divorce agreement to get profits from then-unconceived spinoffs, the court said.A judge who awarded her a share of the later series' profits "truly embarked on a mission to explore a strange new world," the 2nd District Court of Appeal in Los Angeles said in language familiar to Trekkies.
The 2-1 ruling is a multimillion-dollar victory for Roddenberry's estate, whose executor is his widow, actress Majel Barrett Roddenberry. He died in 1991.