Spock's home planet is also named Vulcan after its ... You see, in "Star Trek" creator Gene Roddenberry's original 1964 pitch document ("Star Trek Is..."), Spock was described as "half-Martian." ...
No one is more responsible for this sense of novelty than Star Trek’s creator, Gene Roddenberry ... believed were bound to return to Earth any day now. Roddenberry set to work.