The Talosian Origins of the Reality Distortion Field and Tucker Carlson

The spells don’t work on minor wizards.

Albert Bates
The Shadow
Published in
9 min readMar 19

Gene Roddenberry had not really appreciated how long it would take to produce believable weekly SciFi when Star Trek launched in 1966 on NBC. Toward the middle of the first season, he found himself writing the tenth episode with Ricky Ricardo pacing the floor wanting to see…

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Albert Bates
The Shadow

Emergency Planetary Technician and Climate Science Wonk — using naturopathic remedies to recover the Holocene without geoengineering or ponzinomics.