Phil Bishop, vp worldwide production for CBS, gave the Okudas a code name for their work: Sargon, after an alien entity in “Return to Tomorrow,” a second-season episode of the original series. The project has been so secret for the past decade that Denise couldn’t even tell her parents what they were involved with. It took them three years to watch all of it. Thinking that the reels of unseen deleted scenes, alternate takes and bloopers might be of interest to fans, Rod began a series of phone calls and meetings with CBS in 2006, and a year later, Star Trek experts Mike and Denise Okuda, whose many assignments have included working on Star Trek: The Next Generation and writing multiple editions of the Star Trek Encyclopedia, were brought in to view and log all of the footage. The cans were moved around over the years to various storage facilities and finally the basement of the Roddenberry home, which experienced at least one good flooding. 'Star Trek' Oral History: When Captain Kirk Fought Jesus
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