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Ever wonder what the President watches late at night?  I have.  Sure, he watches cable news during the day.  But what’s streaming late at night in the residential suite?  Now I know.  At yesterday’s coronavirus daily press briefing Trump inadvertently divulged his midnight cable proclivities.

I know because I watched the exact same episode of my favorite childhood science fiction TV show which he must have also watched.  To keep occupied during stationary bike rides this month, I’ve been binging the original Star Trek series.  In the last episode of Season 1,  Operation Annihilate, the Enterprise crew struggles to stop a plague of amoeba-like creatures infecting millions throughout the galaxy.  After Spock himself is infected, a cure is discovered.  Light!  Intense bright light.   The aliens cannot stand light.  Spock is stuffed in a closet (yes they have closets on Star Fleet ships) and blasted with light.  He’s blinded, but he’s also cured.  Then the infected planet is circled with dozens of high intensity light emitting satellites that destroy the plague.

Yesterday the President of the United States, Donald J. Trump,  directed his senior staff to investigate ways to stop the coronavirus by blasting human bodies with intense penetrating light.  I’d say you cannot make this stuff up, but apparently someone did.  In 1967 Gene Roddenberry along with writer Steve Carabatsos imagined the very same solution to a deadly galactic pandemic and crafted a whole Star Trek episode around it.  So yes, you can make this stuff up!

P.S.  I’m not sure yet which TV series used ingesting Lysol (the other proposed solution from yesterday’s Presidential briefing) as a plot to halt a rampaging plague.  But please don’t ingest or inject yourself with Lysol unless you want to kill yourself and the virus.