Fortunately for Tribble and his team, the person helming the project had a superpower. This superpower reminded Tribble of something he had seen before—in an episode of Star Trek. In it, the crew encounters humanoid aliens capable of conjuring their own reality through sheer mental force—what Tribble came to call a Reality Distortion Field. When manifesting something from nothing—as creative people are wont to do—it helps to have one’s own Reality Distortion Field. The trick, of course, is knowing when to turn one’s Reality Distortion Field on—and off.