First Contact - Old Time Radio Science Fiction

First Contact — Dimension X (1951) Before Star Trek imagined the Prime Directive, Murray Leinster dreamed up a story about the most dangerous meeting in the universe — the first contact between two intelligent species. His 1945 novelette, later honored with a Retro Hugo in 1996, introduced the idea of a universal translator — decades before science fiction made it standard issue. In this Dimension X adaptation by Howard Rodman, two ships — one human, one alien — encounter each other in deep s...