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> [Dr. Okun. Who's named after a special-effects guy named Jeff Okun, who had done Stargate for Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin, who did Independence Day. But "Brakish" just came up one day when Jeff Goldblum and I were improvising, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brent-spiner/dr-okun-who-s-named-after-a-special-effects-guy-named-jeff-okun-who/)

[Brent Spiner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brent-spiner/)

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