I think its a great idea for a show, but the "scientist" wasn't making much of an impression on what he had to say....Wormkid_64 comments on this were pretty much what I was going for...Im also not a physicist, but assuming that the speed of light is the fastest way to travel and nothing can go faster than that is a bit old...even if its currently only theoretical, wormholes can bypass that issue, bending and warping space anyone...and as for a more advanced race of aliens inventing it....populating the entire universe isn't what I call a ADVANCED thought! No intelligent race needs to occupy an entire universe, this is how primitive species ensure their existence. Intelligent beings would probably have access to extended life time, maby tens of thousands of years. Intelligent aliens would not need to number in their trillions to survive. Even if we talk about conflict, their capabilities would ensure no one in their right mind would attack them, nor would they need to attack others, as they would probably posses energy gathering tech that they can sustain them self for eons...

As for our strive for achieving AI, I think that its something that will happen in a manner as follows: instead of programmed and fully silicon based AI, a combination neural and silicon based AI will be the way to get a human like intelligence...since neural computers have the ability to learn and understand stimuli, anyone seen the rat neuron powered computer fling a flight sim....

All Im saying is whats sci-fi today is science fact tomorrow....