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Roddenberry named a cult leader Vinod
Operation Lab 9
Puharich had brought Uri Geller from Israel to his estate in Ossining, New York, where he launched Operation Lab 9 with another Faraday cage. Through Geller, a different voice came, calling itself Spectra, a super intelligence aboard a spacecraft 53,000 light years away. It was the Nine under a new name, with new instructions.
Roddenberry arrives
The guest list at Lab 9 grew to include scientists from SRI, wealthy elites, politicians, and European nobility who used fake names. One of the wealthy visitors, British businessman John Whitmore, was so impressed that he wanted to make a movie about the Nine, so they brought in Roddenberry.
Years later, Deep Space Nine had a character named Vinod, in an episode about a cult leader protected by a small inner circle.
The inner circle
Puharich had an inner circle of his own, and it kept receiving instructions from the Nine: prepare humanity, get the right people in place, the transformation is coming.
How did Roddenberry get from pilot to Star Trek?
Gene Roddenberry flew B-17 bombers in World War II and then worked as a Pan Am pilot. He joined the Los Angeles Police Department in 1949 and left in 1956 to write for television. He sold Star Trek to NBC, where it first aired in 1966. Deep Space Nine premiered in January 1993, about fifteen months after his death in October 1991.
How did Star Trek come back after cancellation?
NBC canceled Star Trek in 1969 after three seasons. Syndicated reruns then built a large fan base over the following years. The first Star Trek fan convention, held in New York in 1972, drew thousands of attendees. Paramount released Star Trek: The Motion Picture in December 1979.
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