In the 1970s, as Gene Roddenberry searched for new ideas beyond Star Trek, he became interested in a mysterious group of non-human intelligences known as “The Nine", and the group that allegedly channeled them.

Few people know that a feature film script was developed - and even fewer know that one of the key writers behind it was screenwriter Jon Povill.

Jon Povill is a respected Hollywood writer and producer whose career includes work on major science fiction projects and contributions to films like Total Recall, along with extensive work in television and development alongside Gene Roddenberry.

In this rare and candid interview, Povill reflects on his collaboration with Roddenberry, the origins of the “Nine” script, and the long effort to develop the project from the 1970s into the 1990s. The director of 1989s "Communion" was at one point attached. Even the legendary Hans Zimmer was in the mix.

Perhaps most fascinating - Povill has rarely spoken publicly about his involvement with “The Nine,” making this conversation an important historical record for fans of Roddenberry, Star Trek, and Science Fiction as a whole.

This interview is part of our ongoing series exploring Gene Roddenberry’s connection to “The Nine".

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Steven Halpern is a Grammy-nominated composer and one of the pioneers of modern sound healing music. Emerging from the consciousness movement of the 1970s, Halpern helped define what would become known as New Age music- creating spacious, meditative compositions designed to calm the nervous system and shift awareness. His landmark album Eastern Peace carries an even more unusual origin story: Halpern has said the music came through him following sessions with psychic Greta Woodrew and an alleged extraterrestrial intelligence known as “The Ogatta Group,” linking his work to the same experimental world that surrounded parapsychologist Andrija Puharich.

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In 1977, British author Stuart Holroyd released a little-known but extraordinary book titled Prelude to the Landing on Planet Earth. Part travelogue, part philosophical inquiry, the book documents his firsthand time inside one of the strangest spiritual experiments of the 20th century.

Holroyd found himself embedded with parapsychologist Andrija Puharich, psychic medium Phyllis Schlemmer, and British aristocrat Sir John Whitmore as they moved across the world under the direction of a purported non-human intelligence known as “The Nine.” Their mission was as improbable as it was ambitious: through coordinated group meditation and consciousness work, they believed they could help de-escalate global conflict- specifically tensions in the Middle East.

For decades, Holroyd remained silent about this experience beyond the pages of the book. He has never spoken publicly about what he witnessed, what he believed, or what he doubted… until now.

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