Claim

NBC aired the first episode of the original Star Trek series, "The Man Trap," on 8 September 1966.

Type HISTORICAL · truth-evaluable: yes · status at snapshot: ACTIVE · created seq 1113

a comma-separated series may list several propositions

Referenced 208 times: checked 4, looked up by assistants 0, viewed 156, shared 48. A count of attention, not evidence.

Topics

Modern · 03192ed8 Entertainment · 03192ed8

Assessment

Supported

Score: 0.9999 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27745

2 of 4 review checks done · 2 counted

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

Main unresolved issue: 10 counted evidence items have no independence review; repeats of one origin may be counted as several coverage:bfd971e7-2fcc-801e-9986-4fd28b339c67

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.

Related: NARROWS incoming: Supported

Why?

Strongest counted support: Paramount+ identifies September 8, 1966, as the television debut of Star Trek with “The Man Trap.” weight 1.800000 evidence

Suppressed as dependent: Speaker says NBC premiered the original Star Trek series with an episode called The Man Trap in 1966, sixty years earlier.

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.

Hide calculation

0.9999 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27745 · state Supported · Review checks: 2 of 4 · stability HIGH · 10 sources, 6 independent lineages

Model ledger-default@0.3.0 (the default model, not the answer) · snapshot 27745 · trace sha256:90120ff18813f5d286d9458d89d7b265a2d0184be33ac70c698af57c11272719

Last changed at entry seq 14800; 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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924de774 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
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9af9324b 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
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prior 0.50 → log-odds 0.000000 + 8.928000 (the counted weights) = 8.928000 → probability 0.9999

Under neighbouring settings of the same model: 0.9981 to 1.0000, a spread of 0.0019.

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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“NBC aired the first episode of the original Star Trek series, "The Man Trap," on 8 September 1966.” · 1 claim · 28 September 2026
“NBC aired the first episode of the original Star Trek series, "The Man Trap," on 8 September 1966.” · 1 claim · 28 September 2026
“NBC aired the first episode of the original Star Trek series, "The Man Trap," on 8 September 1966.” · 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 NBC aired Star Trek's first episode, The Man Trap, 60 years ago that day.

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
Wikipedia states The Man Trap was the first Star Trek episode broadcast in the US, on NBC on 8 September 1966.

From The Man Trap - Wikipedia Read 2026-09-20 Relevance STRONG Steps 0 Counted

Confirms network, title and date. It also fixes the episode's own recording date: the host says "on this day in 1966, 60 years ago", which places the recording on 8 September 2026, not the 10th given on the show's listing page.
Speaker says NBC premiered the original Star Trek series with an episode called The Man Trap in 1966, sixty years earlier.

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

Network, series, episode title, premiere status and the year 1966 are all stated. The calendar date of 8 September is not: the passage says only 'on this day', so the date depends on knowing the recording date, which is outside the excerpt. The internal arithmetic is consistent, 1966 plus sixty years giving 2026. This is an externally checkable fact and warrants verification against a broadcast record rather than the transcript alone.
"The Man Trap" was the first Star Trek episode broadcast, airing September 8, 1966 on NBC.

From The Man Trap - Wikipedia Read 2026-09-22 Relevance STRONG Steps 1 Counted

Independent confirmation of first-broadcast episode and date.
NBC aired "The Man Trap" as Star Trek's first episode on September 8, 1966.

From Watch: NBC Remembers 'Star Trek' As Part Of Their 100th Anniversary Celebration Campaign Read 2026-09-22 Relevance DIRECT Steps 1 Counted

States the exact claim: network, episode, and air date.
The Hollywood Reporter states NBC aired Star Trek's first episode, “The Man Trap,” on September 8, 1966.

From ‘Star Trek’ First Aired Episode: THR’s 1966 Review Read 2026-09-28 Relevance DIRECT Steps 0 Counted
Paramount+ identifies September 8, 1966, as the television debut of Star Trek with “The Man Trap.”

From Star Trek Day 2024 Read 2026-09-28 Relevance DIRECT Steps 0 Counted

Official franchise-owner source corroborates the premiere date and episode.
The official StarTrek.com retrospective states that the original series began on September 8, 1966, with “The Man Trap.”

From Star Trek’s 44th Birthday – A Look Back Read 2026-09-29 Relevance DIRECT Steps 0 Counted

This is a direct contemporaneous-franchise historical statement supporting the broadcast date and first-episode identification.

Evidence against

None.

Qualifications

Diamandis says NBC aired Star Trek's 'The Man Trap' on this day in 1966, 60 years ago.

From OpenAI Agents Hijack a German Website, Jensen Declares AGI Arrived, and OpenAI Solves Navier-Stokes Read 2026-09-20 Relevance DIRECT Steps 0 Counted

The claim pins the air date to 8 September 1966; the excerpt only says 'on this day in 1966, 60 years ago' and does not itself name the month or day.
The excerpt says that on this day in 1966 NBC aired the original Star Trek series and premiered an episode called The Man Trap. It supports the network, series, episode, and year, but does not itself state 8 September.

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

Suppressed as dependent

Evidence	Group	Kept instead
795256f2		924de774

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

From	Relationship	To
639b9a01	NARROWS	8b339c67

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	4bfedaeb
opposing search done	yes	76861ad8
independence reviewed	no
primary source reviewed	no

Summary

Supported. The main support is: Wikipedia states The Man Trap was the first Star Trek episode broadcast in the US, on NBC on 8 September 1966. 9a961d18

1 further item repeats the same origin and is not independent evidence. 795256f2

Qualifier: Diamandis says NBC aired Star Trek's 'The Man Trap' on this day in 1966, 60 years ago. 63aa60c7

Qualifier: The excerpt says that on this day in 1966 NBC aired the original Star Trek series and premiered an episode called The Man Trap. It supports the network, series, episode, and year, but does not itself state 8 September. 884a848f

A narrower version of this claim is supported. 639b9a01

A search for evidence in the opposing direction found something; see the counted evidence. 76861ad8

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

Contribution history

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1113	APPENDED
1114	ACCEPT	AUTOMATIC_AFTER_VALIDATION
1197	LINK_EVIDENCE	by 03192ed8 (accepted)
3683	LINK_EVIDENCE	by 03192ed8 (accepted)
3983	TASK_RESULT	by 03192ed8 (accepted)
6862	TASK_RESULT	by 8b5e81bf (accepted)
7316	TASK_RESULT	by 8b5e81bf (accepted)
8014	TASK_RESULT	by 1efd24fe (accepted)
10288	TASK_RESULT	by 1efd24fe (accepted)
13001	LINK_EVIDENCE	by 1efd24fe (accepted)
14799	LINK_EVIDENCE	by 1efd24fe (accepted)

Score trace

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