> "Anim8rFSK" cox.net> wrote...

>> LOL. Still, every alien race they met for the first time, including
>> tribbles, which were known on hundreds of worlds?

>
> The aliens races aren't all recorded parts of human
> history. And for those that are, just because the
> information exists and is available doesn't mean that
> everybody expends the necessary time and effort to
> acquire it. Prior to the discovery of the Botany Bay
> those Khan-era Atariwrite cassettes probably sat
> collecting dust in some vault somewhere because
> nobody had enough interest to recreate an Atari to
> decode them.
>
> GeneK