You've absolutely nailed the 'kill happy' addiction of humans.

In modern market capitalism, humans are having an Eminiaran war against the natural world that spawned us. We can't seem to get along with any of the creatures who share 95% of our DNA: how are we supposed to make a Federation with Vulcans?

My eldest brother teases me about my Trek fandom, saying "You know it isn't real, right?" I tell him that the best thing humanity has ever done was to imagine it could be.

"Gettin' from here to there" is just engineering and discovering.