Communication

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'I like my
species
the way
it is.'
(Lieutenant Commander Worf;
Star Trek: TNG.)
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"A couple of my friends
rebuked me, the
other day, Lord."

[CALM NOD.]

(Look up,
searchingly,
at the ceiling.)
"They say,
they don't understand
why I gotta see HUMOR,
all the time."

"In what,
child."

(Pause.)
(Solemn stare.)
"In,
YOU."

"Ah."
[NODDING.]

"Yeah;
they say the
Bible's really SERIOUS,
and I'm being DISRESPECTFUL."

[WISE LOOK.]
"I see."

"Yeah."
(Squint, upwards.)
"So......I thought,
maybe I shouldn't
TALK TO YA,
ANYMORE."

[GAZING OUT AMONG
THE STARS OF THE
MILKY-WAY.]

(Sigh.)
"They're, like:
real SERIOUS,
and REVERENT,
and always...
AGREEABLE,
with YOU."

[NODDING.]

(Philosophical shrug.)
"So.....Ya know.."

[PAUSE.]
"Who made
you,
child?"

(Thoughtful pause.)
(Sassy smile!)
"The...Lord...
of the KLINGONS?"

[CHUCKLE.]

"Hey, LORD?
Weren't Lieutenant WORF'S
ADOPTIVE PARENTS:
Russian.. JEWS?"

[SHAKING HEAD.]
[SMILING.]
"Oy vey."

"YEAH!
I THINK THEY WERE!
REMEMBER?
HIS REAL PARENTS
GOT KILLED ON THE
KLINGON HOME PLANET,
BY THOSE REAL BAD GUYS*?"

[PATIENT SIGH.]

"And.....HE GOT
ADOPTED, AS A LITTLE
KLINGON KID..
BY THAT EARTH-COUPLE,
FROM RUSSIA?"

[PATIENT GAZE
UPON ONE HIS
ODDER CHILDREN.]

"Well....I THINK THEY
WERE JEWISH! THAT
WOULD MAKE LIEUTENANT WORF,
HALF-JEWISH!"

[SIGH.]

"YEAH!
I THINK THEY WERE!"
(Long pause.)
(Stare up at the ceiling fan.)
(Shout.)
"....WHAT WE WERE
TALKIN' ABOUT, LORD?"

"You,
child."

(Curious squint up
at the ceiling plaster.)

[QUIET VOICE.]
"And,
Me."
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Then
God said,
'Let Us
make man
in Our image,
according to
Our likeness.
[Genesis 1:26]
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*The author can't
remember their name;
these were the guys,
who could make their
space ship invisible.
It wasn't the Borg;
was it the ROMULANS?

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