In 2365, Data attempted to located a comedian to help him better understand the concept of "what is funny?". Bishop was among the holodeck program files that were contained aboard the USS Enterprise-D. The program code list for this comedian was EV-45923. (TNG-R: "The Outrageous Okona" , okudagram) This character was only mentioned in writing. This character was named after CBS Home Entertainment production executive Phil Bishop. For the remastered version of the episode, this character replaced David Livingston.