DENEANS
We needed to find the element Clorium to assist in emergency surgery to Moya's neural nexus. ![[ DENEANS ]](images/deneans_main.gif) But when Crichton, Aeryn, and D'Argo went searching for some on a planet's surface, they discovered that the planet was populated by non-spacefaring bipeds called Deneans.
Crichton met one of the local females, Lyneea, along with her young son, Fostro. Crichton later told me how astonished he was to discover how similar their planet's cultural development was to that of the "humans" on his home world. Lyneea's people had not yet conclusively discovered the existence of intelligent life beyond their own planet, much less met any such lifeforms. Hence, the sight of an alien like Crichton came as quite a shock to them — and the sight of D'Argo was an even greater shock.
The paranoid reaction of their military — capturing D'Argo for study and eventual dissection — leads me to conclude that Deneans are still rather primitive, but Crichton disagrees with me. Crichton insists that Lyneea and her son are probably much more typical examples of the Denean species: They overcame their initial fear and were genuinely enthralled by the notion of meeting extraterrestrial beings.
In fact, Crichton feels oddly honored to have been the Deneans' "first contact." I was compelled to point out that the Deneans, whether they were aware of it or not, must have had prior contact with "alien" lifeforms... after all, Crichton and D'Argo spoke with them. How could Lyneea and Fostro have understood what they were saying unless Deneans possessed Translator Microbes? And how could they have obtained those Translator Microbes unless they'd already been visited by a spacefaring race? Or perhaps Translator Microbes are indigenous to their world, and the Deneans don't even know it. Whatever the cause, neither Crichton nor I have any definitive explanation ... and, alas, we probably never will....
JOURNEY LOG REFERENCES
I, E.T.
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