1. Discuss the Fermi Paradox.
Things just are not looking good for the Star Trek universe, with colorful aliens on every stellar corner.
As many planetary systems as we've been able to detect, not one is much like ours. "We've found an earthlike planet!" tends to mean "we've found a rocky body that's outside the 'Roasting in the Flames' zone."
I noticed a long time ago, how much of serious science fiction involved excuses to get around the Fermi Paradox. They're "hiding". They're "resting". They're snooty, they don't like us. They're "pining for the fjords", or something.
Maybe, they're just not there.
6. Have Lots of Children. Atheists love humanity as long as there is less of it.
Or, as I think of it "far to many of you, not near enough of me."
We only found our first extra-solar planet orbiting a regular star about 15 years ago. Most of those we didn't actually see, only calculated the existence of based on things like the wobbling of the star. We actually saw our first extra-solar planet in visible light a couple of years ago. Also, we've only found planets in our own tiny little neighborhood of our own galaxy.
It's as if you looked through a telescope at Earth and decided it was a water planet based on observation of a square-foot of water in the middle of the pacific.