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Trillillallil otherwise known as Trill was nervous. He had spent his whole week preparing for the humans to arrive. He had the entire diplomatic quarters cleaned up to prepare for the human ambassador. The automated alert system on the data pad suddenly chimed with an ambassadorial alert, the humans had arrived. As the airlock equalized out stepped the humans.

He was in awe. The 20 squeak tall primate seemed to glide out of the airlock more gracefully than even the most graceful squick. How a species 20 times as large as an average squick could move with such skill befuddled him given that a average squick was 3.5 terran inches tall.

The human reached out his hand and said “hello Trillillallil greetings from the terran federated systems it is an honor to be the first species to greet a newcomer to the galaxy in the vast expanse of the stars.”

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Trill was confused now he hesitantly shook the human’s massive hand. He inquired “why are you you wearing a helmet?”

“Oh that ” he remarked “we breathe oxygen and most other species react violently with it”

At this trill balanced and yelled “you breathe ship fuel how aren’t you dead.”

The human just seemed confused “dead? Why would I be dead I evolved to breathe oxygen.”

At this Trill fainted and the human sighed, “why do they always faint when I mention evolution and breathing oxygen in the same conversation.