I live over on the east side of Rochester, Minnesota. One fine day I was out walking when I noticed an odd blue sign in the distance. It was fuzzy and I could barely make it out…

The heck?  I’ve never noticed that sign before.  Now, it’s probably been there all along, and I’ve been passing it for years.  But how could I not have noticed that that’s the USS Enterprise on the sign!

I was still several blocks away from the sign.  It was a sunny day and I was squinting in the brightness.  I quickened my pace to get to this sign and find out what it was.  I mean, how could there be something Star Trek-related in my own neighborhood all this time and I haven’t known about it!?

My mind was racing. Could Rochester be the birthplace of Gene Roddenberry, maybe?  Couldn’t be anything to do with Shatner or Doohan, they’re Canadians.  Takei was from California or thereabouts, since he was in an internment camp during WWII.  That leaves a number of major castmembers.

Maybe Enterprise designer Matt Jefferies was born here!  That would explain why they have this schematic-looking overhead view of the Enterprise on the sign.

I was getting closer.  Now it was just across the street.

Perhaps, instead of a Trek birthplace, there was a little Star Trek museum?  This is a residential area, so maybe some Trek collector let his collecting get out of control and take over his house.  He collected action figures, bought authentic props, built dozens of models, changed all his decor to be Trek-related, and he turned his entire basement into a replica of the set, and it finally reached a point where it was either put it all into storage or turn his house into the Star Trek Museum of Rochester.  That would be pretty cool.

I crossed the street.  Now I could definitely see the details of the sign.  That most certainly is the Enterprise against the blue background!

Oh, wait.

It’s Jesus.

Well…Star Trek is practically a religion, so I wasn’t too far off.