I never figured that every person labeled a 'pirate' had to be bad.
That's like saying everyone that calls themselves a 'comedian' is funny! 🙂
And, more seriously, I have for years seen aliens depicted in books and films as unfathomable, and so different from us, and so far beyond us, as to be nearly impenetrable (when they're not here to eat us or rape our planet, that is).
I tend to think that people are much the same all over. Differences in evolution aside, it will require a certain sameness of mind to gaze skyward, contemplate the cosmos, and then decide, "I gotta see this up close!"