Shaka, when the walls fell.
I was probably not the only person in the US to whom that line came on 9/11, but I've never heard anyone else mention it.
I saw that episode of "The Next Generation" only once, but I have never forgotten it. At the time I was a student at a typical liberal, higher-critical university, and that episode hit me right across the face with the idea of just how silly the notion that the Biblical narratives were "never meant to be read as literal history" really is.
One of the arguments for this "demythologization" is that the ancient Hebrews didn't possess the vocabulary or language for abstract thought, so they got their ideas across by telling "fairy tales." What the proponents of this theory don't seem to understand is that any society that has the language to create the stories certainly has the language and vocabulary to communicate outside of them.
Biblical higher critics literally seem to believe that the ancient Israelites could only communicate among themselves by telling stories, just like the civilization in this episode.