One of our all-time favorites was a story about the health department in Oregon seeking a Klingon interpreter for mental health patients who only spoke in the fictional language used on the Star Trek television series. This tale started when a newspaper reported that Klingon was on a list of languages that some psychiatric patients claimed they could speak. The article specifically noted that “in reality, no patient has yet tried to communi-cate in Klingon.” Nevertheless, as the story echoed around the web, the idea that Oregon was looking for someone fluent in Klingon had become a “fact” (O’Neill, 2003).