First rule of Aliens: Forget anything and everything that ever came out of Hollywood. Get real about the realities of space travel, gravity, speed of light limitations, and basic physics.
“Get real about the realities of space travel, gravity, speed of light limitations, and basic physics.”
Of which our current knowledge and understanding is primitive and infantile...
H.P. Lovecraft has a more believable scenario than Star Trek does.
In the Star Trek universe we encounter aliens who are at about the same level of technology as us. This is incredibly unlikely.
Much more likely would be that they were millions of years more advanced, with technology and motivations that we would find totally incomprehensible.