Gene Roddenberry — Star Trek Creator, The Nine / Lab Nine, NHI Contact (1974–1991)

Eugene Wesley Roddenberry (Aug. 19, 1921 – Oct. 24, 1991) created Star Trek (1966) and is thus one of the most influential cultural creators of the 20th century. Less well known: from 1974 onward, Roddenberry was a regular participant in Andrija Puharich's Lab Nine sessions — secret meetings at which an entity group called 'The Nine' or 'Council of Nine' communicated through the medium Phyllis Schlemmer.

=== STAR TREK AS AN NHI MESSAGE ===
Roddenberry visited Uri Geller personally in New York and spoke about aliens, UFOs, and the Nine communications. Geller (June 9, 2026): 'Gene Roddenberry visited me personally. The name Deep Space Nine is a direct reference to The Nine.' Roddenberry wrote an unpublished Star Trek screenplay based directly on Nine communications. The core message of Star Trek — humanity as part of a galactic community, peaceful first contact, the overcoming of wars — mirrors exactly the messages of the Nine.

=== LAB NINE (1974–1978) ===
Lab Nine was Puharich's research center in Ossining, New York. Participants: Roddenberry, Sir John Whitmore, Phyllis Schlemmer, Ira Einhorn (later convicted). The Nine identified themselves as 'guardians of the Earth' and members of a galactic civilization. Roddenberry documented the sessions and used elements directly for Star Trek episodes and concepts.

=== CONNECTION TO HAIM ESHED & GALACTIC FEDERATION (2026) ===
Uri Geller explicitly connects Eshed's 'Galactic Federation' with Puharich's 'Council of Nine' on June 9, 2026: 'I strongly suspect that what Haim calls the Galactic Federation is directly connected to the SAME intelligence that I, Andrija Puharich & Gene Roddenberry all received communications from!' Roddenberry is thus the cultural link in the chain: Puharich (CIA/science) → Geller (psychokinesis) → Roddenberry (mass culture) → Eshed (military/space).

=== DEEP SPACE NINE & SYMBOLISM ===
Deep Space Nine (1993–1999) — the only Star Trek series Roddenberry did not live to see (he died in 1991) — contains the densest symbolism: Prophets/Pah-wraiths as extra-dimensional entities, the Bajoran Wormhole as a dimensional gateway, The Founders as a shapeshifting collective. Fans and researchers see in this a blueprint drawn from Roddenberry's Nine experiences.

=== ASHES IN SPACE ===
Roddenberry's ashes were launched into space in 1997 aboard Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-94) — at his express wish. Fellow passengers: Timothy Leary (LSD researcher, consciousness expansion), Gerard K. O'Neill (space colonization). Symbolically: three men who all worked in different ways on preparing humanity for extraterrestrial contact.