Claim

Desilu produced the Star Trek pilots and, with Lucille Ball's backing, helped get the series on air.

Type HISTORICAL · truth-evaluable: yes · status at snapshot: ACTIVE · created seq 1121

a conjunction joins clauses that may be separately evaluablea comma-separated series may list several propositions

Referenced 163 times: checked 2, looked up by assistants 0, viewed 128, shared 33. A count of attention, not evidence.

Topics

Modern · 03192ed8 Entertainment · 03192ed8

Assessment

Supported

Score: 0.9878 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27745

2 of 4 review checks done · 2 counted

4 independent evidence lineages · review checks 2 of 4 · stability HIGH

Main unresolved issue: 7 counted evidence items have no independence review; repeats of one origin may be counted as several coverage:8926d86e-49ae-8324-ac91-0c0ffc3edffe

Not yet independently audited.A quoted passage from time.com was not found on the page when Galedra fetched it.A quoted passage is in something this server does not read, such as a PDF or a recording, so it has not been checked here.

Why?

Strongest counted support: StarTrek.com credits Ball's backing through two pilots with helping Star Trek reach television. weight 1.800000 evidence

Suppressed as dependent: Speaker says Desilu produced the pilots and that Lucy's backing helped get the series on air.; The excerpt says Desilu produced the pilots and, with Lucy's backing, helped get the series on air.

Review gaps: independence reviewed, primary source reviewed

What would most change this: One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Supported.

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0.9878 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27745 · state Supported · Review checks: 2 of 4 · stability HIGH · 7 sources, 4 independent lineages

Model ledger-default@0.3.0 (the default model, not the answer) · snapshot 27745 · trace sha256:dbf65d2f5735cd0e8adcb54ff9083e3e215f7ca7e4a3a8e550c70b51d190a8d4

Last changed at entry seq 10295; nothing logged since has borne on this claim.

How the number was reached

Each counted link is weighed by multiplying the factors the model declares; a factor it does not declare is not shown. Every factor name below links to what that number means.

Link	Working	Weight	Counted as
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ee366a65 support	relevance DIRECT 2.0 × observation DIRECT_TEXT 0.9 × interpretation 1 step, 1 − 0.15 × 1 0.850000 × authenticity UNVERIFIED 1.0 × extraction UNVERIFIED 1.0 × provenance SELF 0.0 × edition NAMED_OR_UNRELATED 1	0.000000	0.000000 (dependent strongest only, kept c7612aa2)
ab7c4112 support	relevance STRONG 1.2 × observation DIRECT_TEXT 0.9 × interpretation 2 steps, 1 − 0.15 × 2 0.700000 × authenticity UNVERIFIED 1.0 × extraction UNVERIFIED 1.0 × provenance INDEPENDENT 1.0 × edition NAMED_OR_UNRELATED 1	0.756000	0.756000
9afe3326 support	relevance STRONG 1.2 × observation DIRECT_TEXT 0.9 × interpretation 1 step, 1 − 0.15 × 1 0.850000 × authenticity UNVERIFIED 1.0 × extraction UNVERIFIED 1.0 × provenance INDEPENDENT 1.0 × edition NAMED_OR_UNRELATED 1	0.918000	0.918000
c7612aa2 support	relevance MODERATE 0.6 × observation HEARSAY 0.1 × interpretation 1 step, 1 − 0.15 × 1 0.850000 × authenticity UNVERIFIED 1.0 × extraction UNVERIFIED 1.0 × provenance SELF 0.0 × edition NAMED_OR_UNRELATED 1	0.000000	0.000000
d9b8d1a6 support	relevance STRONG 1.2 × observation DIRECT_TEXT 0.9 × interpretation 1 step, 1 − 0.15 × 1 0.850000 × authenticity UNVERIFIED 1.0 × extraction UNVERIFIED 1.0 × provenance INDEPENDENT 1.0 × edition NAMED_OR_UNRELATED 1	0.918000	0.918000
063eeec8 support	relevance DIRECT 2.0 × observation DIRECT_TEXT 0.9 × interpretation 1 step, 1 − 0.15 × 1 0.850000 × authenticity UNVERIFIED 1.0 × extraction UNVERIFIED 1.0 × provenance SELF 0.0 × edition NAMED_OR_UNRELATED 1	0.000000	0.000000 (dependent strongest only, kept c7612aa2)

prior 0.50 → log-odds 0.000000 + 4.392000 (the counted weights) = 4.392000 → probability 0.9878

Under neighbouring settings of the same model: 0.9558 to 0.9967, a spread of 0.0409.

Half-even rounding, six places for weights and four for the probability. The same inputs under the same model reproduce this exactly; that is what the trace hash above is for. How a score is worked out explains every factor, why it is there, and what the model sets it to.

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Checked as part of

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“Desilu produced the Star Trek pilots and Lucille Ball backed the series; “Mirror, Mirror” depicts an alternate universe with a goateed Spock.” · 2 claims · 21 September 2026
“The Navier–Stokes proof was produced by roughly 10,000 OpenAI agents working for about 88 hours.” · 14 claims · 20 September 2026

Evidence for

Diamandis says Desilu made the pilots and Ball's backing helped get the show aired.

From OpenAI Agents Hijack a German Website, Jensen Declares AGI Arrived, and OpenAI Solves Navier-Stokes Read 2026-09-20 Relevance MODERATE Steps 1 Counted
Speaker says Desilu produced the pilots and that Lucy's backing helped get the series on air.

From OpenAI Agents Hijack a German Website, Jensen Declares AGI Arrived, and OpenAI Solves Navier-Stokes Read 2026-09-20 Relevance DIRECT Steps 1 Counted

Both halves of the claim are stated in the passage. The series is referred to only as 'the series' and Lucille Ball as 'Lucy', both resting on antecedents earlier in the section. 'Desile Desiloo' is a transcription stumble over Desilu. Externally checkable against a production history.
TIME says Ball supported Star Trek, Desilu produced its pilot, and NBC commissioned a second pilot.

From See the Trippy Look of the Long-Buried Original Star Trek Pilot Read 2026-09-21 Relevance STRONG Steps 1 Counted
Desilu and Roddenberry convinced NBC to commission the second pilot, getting the series on air.

From Star Trek's Long Road To TV Began 60 Years Ago This Month Read 2026-09-22 Relevance STRONG Steps 2 Counted

Desilu produced both pilots and secured the second chance that led to the series.
Ball overrode Desilu executives and kept the expensive Star Trek production going.

From The Secret History of How One Woman Saved Star Trek Two Years Before the Series Even Released Read 2026-09-22 Relevance STRONG Steps 1 Counted

Lucille Ball's backing kept Desilu's Star Trek production alive despite cost.
The excerpt says Desilu produced the pilots and, with Lucy's backing, helped get the series on air.

From OpenAI Agents Hijack a German Website, Jensen Declares AGI Arrived, and OpenAI Solves Navier-Stokes Read 2026-09-20 Relevance DIRECT Steps 1 Counted
StarTrek.com credits Ball's backing through two pilots with helping Star Trek reach television.

From How Lucille Ball Helped Star Trek Become a Cultural Icon Read 2026-09-28 Relevance DIRECT Steps 0 Counted

Evidence against

None.

Qualifications

None.

Suppressed as dependent

Evidence	Group	Kept instead
3ab28bfd		c7612aa2
536be1da		c7612aa2

Inferences

Concluded from

None.

Used as a premise in

None.

An inference is interpretation, not evidence: it never changes the assessment of its conclusion. Each premise is a claim with its own evidence.

Threads

None. Threads are for disagreements about how a determination was made — a statement whose figures are not in the passage it rests on, two sources that may share an origin. Something about the world belongs in the evidence above.

Claim edges

None. Edges are stored and displayed; v0.1 does not propagate probability across them.

Review checklist

Review checks: 2 of 4

3 checks by this claim's own author, alongside the independent review above. 1 OPPOSING EVIDENCE SEARCH · 1 QUALIFIER CHECK · 1 EVIDENCE VERIFICATION. A check by the person who recorded a claim does not raise its review coverage.

Check	Done	By
qualifiers reviewed	yes	feb051d1
opposing search done	yes	40a370e9
independence reviewed	no
primary source reviewed	no

Summary

Supported. The main support is: StarTrek.com credits Ball's backing through two pilots with helping Star Trek reach television. 0509dab2

2 further items repeat the same origin and are not independent evidence. 3ab28bfd536be1da

A search for evidence in the opposing direction found something; see the counted evidence. 40a370e9

Review checks: 2 of 4. coverage:8926d86e-49ae-8324-ac91-0c0ffc3edffe

Generated by stub-v0.1; every sentence cites graph ids.

Contribution history

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1121	APPENDED
1122	ACCEPT	AUTOMATIC_AFTER_VALIDATION
1201	LINK_EVIDENCE	by 03192ed8 (accepted)
3987	TASK_RESULT	by 03192ed8 (accepted)
4967	LINK_EVIDENCE	by 56fe4c61 (accepted)
7320	TASK_RESULT	by 8b5e81bf (accepted)
8018	TASK_RESULT	by 1efd24fe (accepted)
10294	TASK_RESULT	by 1efd24fe (accepted)

Score trace

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