"it did not understand them as it ran its scanners over them. The Sounds Of Earth"

A Planet-of-the-Apes this-is-not-the-civilisation-you-thought-it-was type twist, congrats! You got me.

Chills on it meeting Voyager 1. Every sci-fi geek in the world loves Voyager 1, and to have it both achieve it's objective of meeting alien life, as well as to realize that the naysayers might just be right about the consequences of so-doing is mind-expanding for the storyline! :)