Replies

I vaguely recall an episode about a totalitarian regime where an incompetent vegetable male was being ‘presented’ as the supreme leader of the nation by the nefarious real leaders .. but I can’t remember the name of the episode or even if it was the Twilight Zone, Outer Limits, or some other SciFi show.

I keep thinking how ironic it is... that way back then (decades ago)... they had a writer writing about a scenario that we seem to be going through today with Biden, the dementia-patient puppet and Obama, the puppet-master... and all the while the current regime pretending and presenting the brain-addled ‘supreme leader’ as the one really in charge. Life imitates art... or just prophetic writing?

I believe that was the original Star Trek episode “Patterns of Force”, which had Nazis. The figurehead was a Star Fleet officer.

I don't believe what you describe is a TZ episode, although the series did depict some totalitarian regimes. "The Obsolete Man" was one of them, starring Burgess Meredith.

One of my favorites is "Long Live Walter Jamison," which explored immortality and its possible drawbacks.