Labs (Laboratories) in UT & HT vs. Labs in Spaceships. What gives?

[Flyndaran]

Originally Posted by vicky_molokh

To each one's own.
My current setting doesn't even have bioweapons or genetics to speak of, and yet, before going to an unfamiliar medical facility they're preparing to suit up in full NBC gear.
Bare hands? Forget it.

I didn't mean to imply that I like that commonality of near naked exploration. I just meant that it seems overly common. And if as Icelander implied that Spaceships is written for the most common form of gaming, then his assumption that the lab price comes from safety precautions, he kind of negated his own argument.
I hope that makes sense. My sentence structure feels a little rough even as I wrote it.