Psychology Today | 21.02.2026 03:58Gene Roddenberry (the television writer who created Star Trek in 1966) once explained that he “took the perfect person and divided him into three: the administrative courageous part in the Captain, the logical part in the Science Officer, and the humanist part in the Doctor” (Edward Gross, 1995). That description has shaped how fans and philosophers read the show ever since. But Roddenberry miscounted. His show has four distinct psychological functions on the bridge, but he left the fourth one out when he described them.
