“Oh, so you guys actually fly Flying Saucers?”
“Yes, it’s the most efficient design for faster than light travel.”
“Okay, so what is up with all the probing?”
“That’s just how we greet people.”
“Oh… Yeah FYI that has a bit of a different connotation in human culture.”
What if they were identical to humans in every way, but 100 years behind? So they’re driving little Model Ts and building Art Nouveau style? Little brother civilization.
“23 Skidoo! You all are space aliens?”
“I guess from your perspective, yeah.”
“Golly gee! What’s that strange box there that can play tunes like the gramophone?”
“It’s called an iPhone.”
Considering the speed of light and thst they’d hace to travel faster than our broadcasts could reach em…not the worst idea
It would be really cool if their faster than light space ship was some Jules Verne-ass steampunk contraption
Aliens “we thought youd be more comfortable with a design based on your own ideas of what a spaceship looks like. Really it can be any shape.”
I was thinking more of like a situation where somehow we had a spaceship that was meeting them in the near future, in the next couple of decades, so our guys make landfall in this planet expecting to see some
style things but it just looks like the Roaring Twenties.
Star Trek thr Original Series season 2 episode 17, A Piece of the Action is this literally