Send You To Jail In An Undiscovered Country
In the early 1990s, I was part of a Star Trek reenactment of the Khitomer Peace Treaty between Humans and Klingons.
The guy playing Chancellor Gorkon, a Klingon, essential for the play, never turned up. “Surely, it is his new girlfriend. No respect for the fleet,” somebody accused. “He drank too much blood-wine,” somebody else suggested.
He never turned up… until the next day.
What had happened was the following. On the subway, two police officers asked him who he was; he said he was a Klingon. They thought this was a gang. They asked him what he intended to do with his big knife, and he replied that it was no big knife; it was a Bat’leth. And what are you going to do with this thingy? “Kill puny humans.”
The police put him in the overnight arrest for planned manslaughter.
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