> Dealing with real first contact protocols (language acquisition, > biocontainment procedures) would simply make Star Trek and Stargate SG-1 > unwatchable. Or slower and more expensive, at any rate. I suspect the same > was true of Crusade, although I never watched much. (You'd think a series > motivated by plague would be more cautious about exploring strange planets.) > > -xx- Damien X-) For Biocontainment, Star Trek had special immunizations and personal containment fields. And I believe Crusade, though I've watched very little of it as well, had both a telepath and a technomage. It would be odd if it wasn't explained, since JMS was amazing in constructing Babylon 5. Akodo Bob -not quite a Trekkie, but who wonders what the name for B5 fans is.