10 Biggest Feuds In Star Trek History
6. Gene Roddenberry And Nicholas Meyer
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country often rivals the Wrath of Khan for the greatest of the Star Trek films, with both of these movies being directed by Nicholas Meyer. He had introduced the more militarisitc approach to Starfleet in the earlier film, with more overt nods to military style discipline and conduct. While Roddenberry had not pushed too hard on that film, they came to loggerheads on Star Trek VI.
After the critical failure that Star Trek V had been, Leonard Nimoy and the studio wanted the original crew's final film to go out with a bang. The backdrop of the Chernobyl incident and the fall of the Berlin Wall were used to build the story.
Meyer wrote into the script the difficulties that the Federation personnel and the Klingons would have with each other. Specifically, he included openly racist things that the Federation characters spoke. Roddenberry hated this as he had, for his tenure, always envisiaged a future free of such conflicts.
He and Meyer met during the production of the film, though they were not alone. The two men were joined by flanks of their supporters and, per Meyer, there followed an incident in which Meyer, for his part, acted in a way that he truly regretted.
Roddenberry had gradually grown sicker and died not long after, ensuring there was no resolution to this particular feud.