okay so i'm reading about old star trek episodes and uh. wait. hold on
did raël, cult leader of the raelians, name himself after the chief scientist of an advanced alien species that wants to use humans for breeding stock in wink of an eye (1968)?? it would have aired originally when he was 22 and broadcast in europe a couple years later, so it's not unlikely that he saw it, especially given his interests.
he claims to have had his initial alien visitation in 1973, but i wonder if that visitation was in fact directly broadcast to his tv...














