One option is to make Stellar Manipulations much more expensive. They are hugely powerful, after all. Bump the point cost per level up some.
Another option is possible if MM would provide a way to enable racial technologies for other races. You could then have an area called 'genetic engineering' for a few million points and then a field for each of the racial techs for a few million more. Then it would really be possible to research EVRYTHING.
[This message has been edited by Baron Munchausen (edited 12 February 2001).]