Humans in funny suits are more meaningful to humans.
I’m rather baffled by the “failure of imagination” line about Star Trek. That only applies if the purpose is to tell a story about how actual alien contact would go, as opposed to telling a series of stories about humanity. The author of that line is suffering a failure of imagination about the purpose of science fiction, which is rather different than the purpose of an exercise in pure imagination.
Humans in funny suits are more meaningful to humans.
I’m rather baffled by the “failure of imagination” line about Star Trek. That only applies if the purpose is to tell a story about how actual alien contact would go, as opposed to telling a series of stories about humanity. The author of that line is suffering a failure of imagination about the purpose of science fiction, which is rather different than the purpose of an exercise in pure imagination.