Elias Burke: Difference between revisions

Before leaving Eli had a particularly violent fight with his father over his atheism, one in a series of many violent fights. Aboard the shuttle enroute to Earth Eli had time to think. In a final confrontation with his Christianity Eli prayed for the first time in almost a year, "God, if you are real then prove yourself to me," thinking that this a was sure-fire way to disprove God's existence. If God were real He would prove himself and if He were not then He would not. Much to Eli's dismay, God proved himself. In a freak accident a golf-ball sized, high-speed asteroid blasted a baseball-sized hole in Eli's forward bulkhead. Eli was able to make his way to the rear compartment and seal it, but to this day Eli will attest that he heard in his mind the clear words: "Ask and ye shall receive, O ye of little faith." The asteroid upon impact had shattered and punctured Eli's abdomen, if he did not receive help quickly he would bleed out and the communications array was in the now vacuum-sealed forward compartment. Miraculously an [http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Andoria| Andorian] freighter received his ship's automated distress call, arrived in time, and tractor his to low earth orbit where Eli was able to receive medical attention.