“Possibly the lack of encounters with hostile aliens has lulled them into a belief that advanced alien races would be benign, beneficent , and enlightened. Earth carried much the same beliefs before they met the Vulcans and were informed otherwise. The Voyager space probe witht he golden record attached is a prime example of that.”

• Kord, XO

OOC: This seems like as good of a place to jump in as any.

A petite red-haired woman in a Starfleet uniform, flanked by a vaguely reptilian officer with inky, dilated eyes the size of saucers, and a diminutive balding man, walked up to the Captain’s group, each carrying medical kits.

“Captain, gentlemen,” she said by way of introduction. “I don’t believe we’ve been formally introduced. Doctor Elizabeth Jasper at your service, along with my physician’s assistant, Rivv’mokk, and my head nurse, Ensign St. Georges. I figured we should probably touch base with your group before we head off to visit the local hospitals.”