Aliens who have seen the Back to the Future movies literally don't realise that Doc Brown is meant to be funny.
Except Q. Q gets it, that's why he's the best.
Unfortunately for this headcanon, it's kind of refuted by the Cardassian monstrosity that is the Deep Space 9 stationIt actually addresses DS9
It actually addresses DS9well it's just wrong. Like there aren't so many episodes that are like "the station shut down lol" but that's not really that true of TNG either.