xhonzi said:

Ah-hah, but he brought up the Original Star Trek... Where man travels from planet to planet in their fancy spaceship and mostly visit non-space-faring peoples. He also brought up Babylon 5 where they are middle of the road or slightly higher.

I, of course, fell back on every alien invasion story where they come to Earth.

I was going to bring up the original Star Trek also, but in the sense that its all about the morality. Kirk went to several planets where it wasn't the tech, but his morality that changed them. The one that sticks out in my mind is "The Apple" where he introduces both love and murder to a culture, but you have to take the bad with the good because that's the human way!

IMO, most of sci-fi comes down to moral humans > any alien. Of course, no one goes to a movie and roots for the aliens to win (unless it's Aliens vs Predator, of course. Or District 9).