[quote=@Doivid]
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Roddenberry actually had nothing to do with that film, funny enough. He died just before it was released. Rumor is that when he saw a screening he was enormously unhappy with it and would have pushed for major changes if he didn't die soon afterward.

Don't know where they got the name.
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Praxis. They got the name from the entire universe which the Praxis parallel dimension is.