Claim

Gene Roddenberry brought the Star Trek concept to Desilu Productions, the studio run by Lucille Ball, in 1964.

Type HISTORICAL · truth-evaluable: yes · status at snapshot: ACTIVE · created seq 1117

a comma-separated series may list several propositions

Referenced 146 times: checked 2, looked up by assistants 0, viewed 113, shared 31. A count of attention, not evidence.

Topics

Modern · 03192ed8 Entertainment · 03192ed8

Assessment

Supported

Score: 0.9955 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:9cda33c5-11df-88c9-a3ab-928b8ab14bdd

Not yet independently audited.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 says Roddenberry came to Desilu with the Star Trek idea four years after Ball took over in 1960. weight 1.800000 evidence

Suppressed as dependent: The excerpt says the Star Trek concept was brought to Desilu Productions, run by Lucille Ball, in 1964.; Speaker says someone brought the concept in 1964 to Desilu Productions, the studio run by Lucille Ball.

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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0.9955 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 sha256:9d6f5e4affadadb91d01c5c8d5859a9a7a1f2aeab76596be7a5ed9b07320ed18

Last changed at entry seq 10293; 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
70a33dc2 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
1fb8e367 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 70a33dc2)
14a038c8 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 INDEPENDENT 1.0 × edition NAMED_OR_UNRELATED 1	1.530000	1.530000
7340cb50 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 SELF 0.0 × edition NAMED_OR_UNRELATED 1	0.000000	0.000000 (dependent strongest only, kept 70a33dc2)
1b55440f 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 INDEPENDENT 1.0 × edition NAMED_OR_UNRELATED 1	1.530000	1.530000
58e62cc2 support	relevance MODERATE 0.6 × observation DIRECT_TEXT 0.9 × interpretation 0 steps, 1 − 0.15 × 0 1.000000 × authenticity UNVERIFIED 1.0 × extraction UNVERIFIED 1.0 × provenance INDEPENDENT 1.0 × edition NAMED_OR_UNRELATED 1	0.540000	0.540000
a891a388 support	relevance DIRECT 2.0 × observation DIRECT_TEXT 0.9 × interpretation 0 steps, 1 − 0.15 × 0 1.000000 × authenticity UNVERIFIED 1.0 × extraction UNVERIFIED 1.0 × provenance INDEPENDENT 1.0 × edition NAMED_OR_UNRELATED 1	1.800000	1.800000

prior 0.50 → log-odds 0.000000 + 5.400000 (the counted weights) = 5.400000 → probability 0.9955

Under neighbouring settings of the same model: 0.9777 to 0.9991, a spread of 0.0214.

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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“Gene Roddenberry brought the Star Trek concept to Desilu Productions, the studio run by Lucille Ball, in 1964.” · 1 claim · 20 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 Roddenberry took Star Trek to Lucille Ball's Desilu Productions in 1964.

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 someone brought the concept in 1964 to Desilu Productions, the studio run by Lucille Ball.

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

The studio, Lucille Ball running it, and the year 1964 are stated outright. Two elements of the claim rest on antecedents outside the excerpt: the passage opens on a bare relative pronoun and never names Roddenberry, and it says 'the concept' without naming Star Trek. 'Desiloo' is a transcription of Desilu. Externally checkable and worth verifying against a production history.
Roddenberry presented the Star Trek draft to Desilu Productions in April 1964.

From Star Trek: The Original Series Read 2026-09-20 Relevance MODERATE Steps 0 Counted

Confirms the 1964 date, narrowing it to April. "The studio run by Lucille Ball" is also accurate for 1964, since Ball had taken control of Desilu in 1960 after buying out Desi Arnaz.
In 1964 Roddenberry brought his Star Trek idea to Desilu Productions.

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

States the claim directly: year, person, studio.
Roddenberry sold Star Trek to Lucille Ball's Desilu in 1964, signing in April.

From Star Trek's Long Road To TV Began 60 Years Ago This Month Read 2026-09-22 Relevance DIRECT Steps 1 Counted

Confirms 1964, Desilu, and Lucille Ball's ownership.
The excerpt says the Star Trek concept was brought to Desilu Productions, run by Lucille Ball, in 1964.

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 says Roddenberry came to Desilu with the Star Trek idea four years after Ball took over in 1960.

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
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75b7892c		70a33dc2

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	2ef8ff4d
opposing search done	yes	1168732d
independence reviewed	no
primary source reviewed	no

Summary

Supported. The main support is: In 1964 Roddenberry brought his Star Trek idea to Desilu Productions. 90e40154

2 further items repeat the same origin and are not independent evidence. e590881975b7892c

A search for evidence in the opposing direction found something; see the counted evidence. 1168732d

Review checks: 2 of 4. coverage:9cda33c5-11df-88c9-a3ab-928b8ab14bdd

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

Contribution history

seq	event	detail
1117	APPENDED
1118	ACCEPT	AUTOMATIC_AFTER_VALIDATION
1199	LINK_EVIDENCE	by 03192ed8 (accepted)
3985	TASK_RESULT	by 03192ed8 (accepted)
4170	LINK_EVIDENCE	by 03192ed8 (accepted)
7318	TASK_RESULT	by 8b5e81bf (accepted)
8016	TASK_RESULT	by 1efd24fe (accepted)
10292	TASK_RESULT	by 1efd24fe (accepted)

Score trace

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