I couldn't sleep last night, and at 4:30 a.m. I turned on the tube and watched the last half of "The Bellero Shield," a 1964 episode of "The Outer Limits." The star-studded cast included Martin Balsam as a brilliant scientist, Sally Kellerman as his scheming wife, Neil (Commisioner Gordon) Hamilton as the scientist's ball-breaker of a father, and Chita Rivera as the scientist's streetwise housekeeper. All the humans in the story are sacks of crap, and they ultimately destroy their would-be redeemer, a space alien named BiFrost. It wouldn't be cheesy sci-fi without a Christ figure, would it?
