But don't expect me to believe that nobody even at Apple knew or at least logically deduced that they had continued to maintain the Intel port that had already existed for seven years and been sent to developers in pre-release versions of OS X. I also get annoyed that the story is presented as if they started from nowhere and accomplished the impossible (or at least improbable) because again the Intel port was already there.
Unsure what the context is here regarding the "Intel port".
The earlier Star Trek project was to get Classic OS running on Intel.
The underpinnings of OS X come from the NeXT acquisition and are completely unrelated to Star Trek. Later versions of NeXTstep did run on Intel.