I was reading a small portion of a book I purchased recently called Astrophysics For People In A Hurry by Neil Degrasse Tyson. This post is not sponsored or affiliated with him or the book in any way but if you enjoy learning about outer space and how the universe operates but maybe you are of the beginner variety or you don't have a lot of time to really swirl your brain into science, I strongly recommend this book. Scientific readings are very thick and it takes me a while to digest the information because there's so much to understand and marinate on in such a small section of text.
I'd like to believe that this book is detailed enough to give you an accurate source of information while also simplifying the information in a way anybody could pick up and understand right away.
Reading the book always gets my mind thinking and adds life to my imagination. It got me to thinking about foreign life forms and if they operate and function the same way humans do on Earth. Do they have verbal languages or is everything communicated telepathically? Things like that.
Those kind of questions gave me the idea for a movie or a tv show from the perspective of alien life and the moments leading up to meeting humans for the very first time and what kind of relationship they would have among each other. I had to blog this because I feel like this is something I could definitely build up on in the future. Or at least I can hope some genius will read this and make my wish come true with a movie/book/show etc... Sure, I could probably commit to it myself but any time I've tried to write a book I get bored and toss it.
There needs to be a new movie or tv show that takes place on a distant galaxy or star system. It would be through the perspective of alien life and society. Their own scientific or governmental affiliates receive an alert that something foreign is approaching the surface of their star system and the trajectory is headed for their planet. Assorted officials gather to determine if this foreign object is a threat to their lives and they make plans to divert the object away from their planet and/or destroy it with their technology. Upon further investigation through monitoring and physical space travel they realize that it is what we know as Voyager. They are able to avoid the object from making a dangerous/harmful impact on their planet via suspension and they slow it down enough to lower it into their atmosphere and land it safely.
The main characters are responsible for inspecting the craft and everything contained on it. It is something truly alien to them. They pull up references of legends they heard about humanity, Earth and other star systems but to them it ways always a myth or legend as they have not been successful at traveling to the Milky Way galaxy but simply observing it through astrophotography and their own space programs. While they are successful at traveling on various planets within their star system and neighboring star systems, they have not had the opportunity to depart far enough to reach the solar system that Earth is located in.
The movie/show would consist of the characters discovering and revealing all of the information contained on the gold plaque that was on Voyager. It contains the sounds, songs, information, and stories about Earth in our current millennium. They would de-bunk certain myths and discover things that they had no record of. With the information given to them from the plaque they come to figure out the final steps necessary to voyage to Earth for the first time.
But the military is hesitant to do so because they are unsure of the threat humans and Earth life poses to their own lifeforms and if the relationship would be peaceful or violent. But the characters volunteer to be the guinea pigs to go on the voyage alone. On their journey, they come across some hiccups and conflict. Perhaps there would also be a love interest and further character development.
Then finally they would approach the Earth's solar system and pick up communication signals from various governments around the world. Before approaching the planet they organize a meeting with the US government. The US government agrees to meet the alien life forms on the planet Mars but they inform the alien life forms that they are not as advanced and the trip will take 6 months to complete. The aliens offer information to them which revolutionizes space travel. The government on their home planet is furious because they fear they gave humans a way to weaponize and take control of them. So the humans and aliens meet finally and convince the aliens that they are not harmful. The aliens give them their trust and they agree to meet on Earth.
The aliens and humans work together to share their knowledge but other people on Earth catch word that aliens have arrived and due to their misguided illusions they fear that a war will break out and that the aliens are there to end human life. So they begin an attack on the aliens which cause the aliens to question the humans intent from the beginning and they realize coming to Earth was a mistake just like the government/scientists told them from the beginning. However, the main characters know that Earth had no intention of waging war against aliens, but more so there were many uninformed people in the world and had false ideas of how aliens are and their intentions for Earth and the relationship to be built for the future.
So the main characters join up with human characters and the team of 4 are determined to prove and convince Earth and the alien planet that this was all a big misunderstanding and to stop the war from starting but of course, people and aliens are stubborn (something in common woo!) so a war breaks out inevitably. Here it turns out that the US gov comes to realize that another gov on Earth started the war because they wanted to steal technology from the aliens to use against the other countries of the world and used the 'fear' of society as a front to hide their agenda.
So the US government and the aliens and the main characters team up to defeat the evil on Earth to protect the technology that the aliens have from being exploited and weaponized by corrupted humans. The conflict is brought to an end from the team of 4 and the organized and intelligent meeting is held once more. Because of their vigilance and devotion to protecting the values of humans and aliens together, a beautiful relationship is formed between the two races. The aliens agree to help the humans become more advanced while guiding them on further space travel and colonization etc... humans and aliens are now freely able to live in harmony and the main character aliens fall in love with the humans and together they launch their own airship to enjoy adventure.
But on their way back to alien planets they receive a communication that someone evil exists on the alien planet and they're corrupting their own governments by force and then the movie ends. BUT the sequel would be the team of 4 calling up on the aliens and humans in harmony to help aid them for eliminating the threat on their planets.
I think we have plenty of media that takes the human perspective and applies it to the fascination and dangers of space, time travel, technology, science, etc... but I wanted to flip it and see what kind of adventure could stem from that. I think Avatar has a similar concept where they are an alien life form that comes into contact with humans and has a love/hate relationship with them but they learn that within a race there is individuality and not everyone is savage.