I tried to lookup a Star Trek episode of this premise and found a Voyager episode: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendship_One_(Star_Trek:_Voyager) https://en.

I tried to lookup a Star Trek episode of this premise and found a Voyager episode: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendship_One_(Star_Trek:_Voyager) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendship_One_(Star_Trek:_Voy... This is a likely scenario of misinterpretation between species haha.