Status Updates From The Infinity Link

I could not find myself in the story.

I could not find myself in the story.

I just can't do it, I'm sorry.

You know what I really want to see? Humanity/The Committee making all these plans and intrigue, going through all this trouble to ready themselves for First Contact, and then in the final chapter, the aliens just blow right by them without so much as a wave, to get to the whales who were the ones they've been trying to contact all along.