Rod Roddenberry, CEO of Roddenberry Productions, announced today that Roddenberry Productions has entered into an agreement with Brian Grazer and Ron Howard's Imagine Television to redevelop the original 1970's Gene Roddenberry pilot The Questor Tapes.

The Questor Tapes was originally conceived as a television series about an android with incomplete memory tapes who searches for his creator and his purpose. The Hugo-nominated pilot aired on American television on January 23, 1974, and starred Mike Farrell (M*A*S*H) and Robert Foxworth. NBC green lit the series, and thirteen episodes were written, however, behind-the-scenes factions clashed over the show's raison d'être, attempting to skew the fledgling program in a new direction, making it more like The Fugitive (1964-1968) or The Six-Million Dollar Man (1973-1978). Thus, the series never went into production.

The announcement about the new show was made at the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Hall of Fame induction ceremony where Rod Roddenberry accepted the posthumous honor, presented by Seth MacFarlane, on his father's behalf.

"My father always felt that 'Questor' was the one that got away," said Rod Roddenberry. "He believed that the show had the potential to be bigger than 'Star Trek.'"

The character of Data from Star Trek: The Next Generation was heavily inspired by Gene Roddenberry's original Questor character.

Rod Roddenberry will develop the project along with Roddenberry Productions COO Trevor Roth and Imagine Television's President David Nevins and EVP of Development Robin Gurney. The team is currently in negotiations with writer, producer and show runner Tim Minear (Lois & Clark, The X-Files, Angel, Dollhouse) to produce.