KENNY: ROBOT:
Cats! Robert makes the king's jive!
(to Magellan) They are impressed that I can speak their language. (then to the "cats") Cats, we zapped you and now we're in nowheresville! We need you to blow this burg, but we need you to slip us the lowdown.
MAGELLAN: What language is this, who are they, Robot? ROBOT:
grandparents.
MAGELLAN: What has she got in her hands? BETTY:
POLO: SPARKY:
Captain, I'm afraid that this is a version of English spoken in the mid-20th
century and these people … might just be your
This? This is my transistor radio! I was just listening to my fave song: "Johnny Angel!"
Uh-oh. I used the coordinates "singing" and "angel" to move closer to Bethlehem. I guess I should have been more specific.
Now what do we do? We're lost again.
MAGELLAN: I just had a thought. First, beam these "cats" back down. ZIP:
Aye, aye, Captain. SFX 7: "Zoom Beam"
(Zip beams them down while the dialogue continues.)
MAGELLAN: We're on a mission to see the glory of God in the universe, we're good at finding stars, and we have the Bible to help us. Why don't we navigate to the Star of Bethlehem?
SPARKY: POLO:
The one that the Wise Men followed to find Jesus when He was a baby?
That would be doable!
MAGELLAN: The star would have created a huge light in the sky two thousand years ago! Sparky, scan for remnants of the energy from that light! Mr. Polo, program the computer with these Bible chapters: Matthew 2.
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