“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.”
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