Zero tells his story(or at least tries to)

"Are you saying your name is Zero?" she asked. "Yes, My friends and shipmates gave the name, on their world it is considered an honor because of it's mathematical significance" he began, "it was the name of their greatest scientist that developed many of the basic concepts that their advance technology was was based.""Before you continue I must ask you, before I was brought aboard your ship I could of sworn that I saw baby dinosaurs,was I hallucinating?"she asked. "I was coming to that", he began," I was going to save that revelation till last or at least until you were fully  recovered" he said as he lifted the tiny control panel that on his left wrist  to where his mouth would of been had he not been wearing a mask. "Doctor Bazz, please come into your patients room."he said through the mask. The same vertically sliding door that Zero used a few moments earlier, rose again and in walked  what for all the world looked like a miniature dinosaur wearing a white coat and a belt from which depended a number of unidentifiable tools.

Louise was momentarily speechless, "Allow me to introduce Dr.Bazz the ships healer" he said with a nod toward his saurian companion. As Dr Bazz bowed deeply he spoke in a short sibilant burst, simultaneously a small device on his utility belt uttered in perfect English" I am pleased to meet you human Louise." After Louise recovered from her brief fainting spell, she began to observe the new comer closely. He stood nearly four and a half tall, his arms terminated with a hand that had three fingers and a thumb at the end of which were  sizable and dangerous looking claws. He had the large forward looking eyes of a predator, his skull was shaped in a way that would allow for a larger brain. A tail protruded from under his white lapelless jacket. When standing still he stood completely upright and when he walked(and later she found out when running) he stooped slightly and used his tail as a counterbalance. 

"Bazz is of the saurian race, my entire crew is composed of them. Please try not to prejudge them I know how xenophobic people of your world can be" he continued "on your world and as on mine catastrophic cosmic events drastically changed the evolutionary course of our planets, on Bazz's world no such event took place and in front of you see the result, a descendant of dinosaurs as highly evolved as ourselves." "Bazz's people built a great civilization before disaster fell." Disaster?"she said as she tore her curious eyes off of Bazz. "Yes, disaster, the same one that befell my world and that well might befall your world" he said. "You mean those Philistines? Louise asked. At the mention of the word Philistines Bazz opened his jaws displaying an impressive display of triangular razor sharp teeth. At that moment she made a mental note to never piss off a saurian!

Next time: What are you hiding behind that mask?