Or what is as somebody said, "Gaia is pregnant," and really wants to have this "baby?"
No, that's the wrong metaphor, and a reason we need to have more pronatalist in the world, to get people's thinking back on track.
Human life is much more beautiful and humans are such agreeable docile creatures, much of the time at least, compared to cancer cells, rats, mice, roachs, locusts, or any of the other inappropriate metaphors. One of the best metaphors I see as useful, is that of a progressing pregnancy itself? Pregnant women have a strange beauty about them, I think because both babies and pregnancy are obvious symbols of the natural subconscious and conscious natural human drive to reproduce. In a pregnancy, all parts grow together, towards a collective and good outcome, similarly, all nations may enjoy growing all at the same time, and help each other out somewhat in their collect goal to ENLARGE the entire human race, so that all the more people may experience life, and there may be more people to worship God and populate heaven. Pregnancy doesn't naturally lead to disaster, but to some sort of wondrous "birth." Humans are "progressing" towards something interesting, surely. More people to populate heaven, or more people to populate more worlds.
I don't like that
Star Trek is so overly humanistic, but I do like some of the optimism, of suggesting at some point in the future, poverty and hunger have vanished, and people work, not for money, which has also largely vanished, but for love of working. While obviously the actors have to be paid, isn't it interesting in the story, how the characters are so eager to help one another out, all without pay or a paycheck, apparently. There's probably not much to actually "buy" with houses and spacecraft probably build largely by automatic robots, and food coming from "food replicators." There apparently isn't much interest in population "control," as in the future there's little perceived need for it, but didn't one episode mention something about some Atlantis project, or trying to raise more land out of the ocean floor? Suggests possible a rather "crowded" planet perhaps? Maybe not a lot of land left not already heavily populated by humans? Yeah,
Star Trek's a fantasy, but isn't it just possible, the future could become a bit more like that?