Note: Any astronomer can tell you that the only ways to see a starless (or galaxy-less) sky from space is to have something in your way, or something wrong with your camera. As there's nothing in the way here, we must assume that some fault of the camera has been exploited as a feature to help sell the idea of how far these people are from anybody else.
NARRATOR: Half a million light years away (and still fifty-four million years ago), in the local group's intergalactic void...
Unnamed velociraptor (inside ship): Hey, guys! I heard that the probe in our home system woke up.
Unknown Boloceadean (inside ship): We've decided to ignore it.
Unnamed velociraptor: You didn't ignore it when we called.
Blue Boloceadean: You “called” with a weak trickle of primitive radio.
Pink Boloceadean: These people have technology to rival or surpass our own.
Unnamed velociraptor: So? They're probably too far away to shoot us.
Pink Boloceadean: They probably want us to think that.