It seems that Star Trek's Gene Roddenberry will get his wish and spend eternity on the Final Frontier, along with the rest of the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise.

The remains of Gene Roddenberry, the creator of “Star Trek”. and late wife, Majel Barrett Roddenberry are space-bound and will spend eternity together in space.

Celestis Inc., a company that specializes in memorial spaceflights, plans to ship the remains of the late Star Trek creator and his wife into space next year, the company announced on Monday.

After Gene Roddenberry died in 1991, his wife commissioned Celestis to launch a part of his remains into space in 1997. She died Dec. 18, 2008.

The couple's remains have been cremated and will be sealed into specially-designed capsules that are to withstand space travel. A rocket-launched spacecraft will carry the capsules.

The launch will not happen for another year and a half because Celestis needs time to prepare the Roddenberrys' memorial spaceflights. Until then, fans can write a tribute message for the Roddenberrys at Celestis' website. The messages will be digitized and sent into space along with the Roddenberrys' remains.

The BBC said Majel Roddenberry had some of her husband's remains taken aboard the maiden flight of a Celestis Inc. rocket in 1997. The company offers to bring people's cremated remains into space, then disperse them into the Earth's orbit, the lunar surface or deep space. The rockets transporting the ashes typically burn up on re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere.

The couple's son, Eugene, told the British broadcaster Majel requested that her ashes, as well as those of her husband's, be launched into space together so the rocket would "carry their spirits, memories, and the message of their life's work into the cosmos on an infinite journey into deep space."