loreweaver-universe:

No, seriously, we always joke about how our sci-fi TV is just humans in rubber masks, and by extension how real aliens would find it quaint and ridiculous, but who says they wouldn’t get it?  The Zurgleplexians get to Earth and watch Star Trek and go, oh, yes!  What an excellent use of limited resources to create serialized fiction.  Oh, this one over here is both creative and hearts-wrenching!  Glorbin, come watch this one!

Of course Zurgleplex had some kind of Star Trek equivalent.  Storytelling always pushes the limits of what a society can understand or accomplish at any point in time.  It wasn’t until the mid-80s that we got what we’d recognize as CGI these days, but starships and space battles and weird aliens were being depicted all the same, with whatever resources their creators could manage. Give me aliens who love Star Trek.