Never trust others with your source tapes.
Seriously, sounds like you had the opportunity to work with & know a very interesting fellow. In my time at IBM (as a lowly coop), I found the experience so underwhelming I applied somewhere else when I graduated. Guess I was in one of the less interesting parts of the company.
I was chair of ACM’s SIGPLAN, programming languages, when I hired in, and started the Lisp and Ada newsletters, and ran a bunch of language conferences. That let me get to know a lot of wonderfully interesting people. Jean Sammet, the Tower of Babel author and a former ACM president was another Star Trek fan. I got into video making by talking an IBM VP into giving me something more interesting to do and got an international multimedia magazine before we even had video running on a computer screen. They were such lovely days. The VP never wanted to oversee me, so I got to do just about anything I wanted. I could take or reject projects and got to hire a steadicam operator and work with a graphics studio and have a musician and do all the fun things. Every time we finished early, I made the shooting crew stay and teach me. Wrote a white paper on non-linear editing back when Avid was a hole in the wall and got invited to visit studios in Hollywood to see how they differed from the computer world. In one editing site they let me copy from all the notebooks so I could follow the data through their process. It was the most wonderful times. My husband used to come over from the Yorktown lab to help me edit on the 1” and they let him build a whole video studio around my project.