Many of us noticed ancient pagan names in Star Trek. It had a cause. Hollywood has always been influenced by the occult. Excerpt from Mondays Fandom blog: Gene Roddenberry attended channeling sessions at Andrija Puharich’s estate in Ossining, New York in 1974 and 1975. The sessions were conducted with Phyllis Schlemmer as the medium. The entities who spoke through her called themselves the Council of Nine. They identified themselves as the Egyptian Ennead, the nine gods of Heliopolis, and they claimed responsibility for the direction of human civilization across the entirety of recorded history. Roddenberry took notes. Those notes made their way into the cosmology of Star Trek: The Next Generation, which he developed and produced through the late 1980s. The Q Continuum, the omnipotent beings who stand in judgment of humanity, the framing of human evolution as a project overseen by superior non-physical intelligences: the architecture came from sessions conducted with a medium while entities dictated cosmological claims to a man who had already abandoned the Christianity of his upbringing and was looking for something to replace it.