Name the occurrence in the history of our planet where the much-more advanced/capable species did not displace and diminish the indiginent one. In many cases, the more advanced or aggressive species completely wiped out the existing one.
There's a lot more that's extremely unlikely in the Star Trek universe besides just transporter beams and faster-than-light travel.
A sufficiently advanced species might not feel any more compunction about eradicating the human race than I would feel about eradicating mosquitoes.
Humans and buffalo. Humans and passenger pigeons. Humans and mastodons. Humans and elephants. Humans and tigers. Humans and smallpox. Humans and dodos. Etc.
No, I just wanted to make sure you weren't conflating what happens to species with what happened with Columbus and Hispaniola. I'm not so sure we know in enough detail exactly what happened to Neanderthals for that to be a good example, especially since the conversation is about the meeting of different civilizations, not just different species.
Name the occurrence in the history of our planet where the much-more advanced/capable species did not displace and diminish the indiginent one. In many cases, the more advanced or aggressive species completely wiped out the existing one.
There's a lot more that's extremely unlikely in the Star Trek universe besides just transporter beams and faster-than-light travel.
A sufficiently advanced species might not feel any more compunction about eradicating the human race than I would feel about eradicating mosquitoes.