Bring on the Aliens

Interesting that two TV shows in the last year involve the arrival of an alien species to Earth: V and now The Event. It's also interesting to note that the president in The Event is black, and he has not been told about the aliens until the last moment. I'm not much of a conspiracy theorist, and I know how terrible the government is at keeping anything quiet, but there does seem to be an increasing amount of alien-related media popping up.

I would love to hear of such an announcement. Any modern scientist would be very cautious to say that we are alone in the universe, especially as time progresses and the recipe for life seems simpler and simpler. At the same time, they'd be cautious to admit that extraterrestrial intelligence is here on earth given the distance of travel and the sheer size of the universe. (obviously they assume both that these aliens have a long way to go, and that the speed of light is a universal speed limit; neither of which we can say for sure)

We need antigravity! I want my own starship, dammit. I want a Star Trek world. It's funny about Star Trek -- Gene Roddenberry a long time ago was worried that humans would fail to recognize that a Star Trek world isn't terribly tough to achieve:

"I have a great fear that our human leaders will fail to understand that a world such as Star Trek is possible, that all the glorious things- not that Star Trek represents but the human being represents- will fall on deaf ears. That frightens me. There is always the chance that not enough humans will understand and appreciate themselves enough to make a great change in the human equation."