Indeed, don't get your hopes up.

On the one hand, that'd be really cool if it was aliens.

On the other, it's really going to suck if it doesn't give us a clue about how to get an FTL drive of some kind working.

The story would gain some credibility if it described the kind of modulations observed, how they matche those predicted, and why such modulation would be suggestive of artificial solar manipulation. "Hey, these stars are doing something somebody else said might mean aliens" doesn't cut the mustard.

Are you the kind of guy that would watch the gummy bears and actually expect them to show an episode with other gummybears?

Because that was a metaphor for finding extra terrestrial intelligent life and it didn't happen on the show and it didn't happen here!!!

*slams door and sobs quietly*

I'm not quite sure I get what you mean. Are you saying other Gummi Bears apart from the main cast weren't in the Disney cartoon, ever? Because there were others. I mean, I loved any cartoon show with Lorenzo Music doing a voice, so I had to watch it.

They had a sub-plot about finding other colonies of gummiebears "across the sea". In hindsite it was (1) the only plot line I cared about (2) an obvious metaphor for the difficulties space exploration and trying to find intelligent life.

Edit:
(From TV tropes)
Last of His Kind: The Gummi Glen Gummis believe they are the last remaining Gummis. They're wrong, but not by much.
Most of the Gummi Bears set off in ships to find new land where they wouldn't be persecuted by humans. A small number remained in Gummi Glen, to watch and wait for the day it was safe for the other Gummis to return. Five hundred years later, there are six left. However, by the end of Season One it's made clear that there's a thriving Gummi society across the ocean.
On a slightly smaller scale, in Season Two the group come across another Gummi Bear called Chummi, who's really desperate to find other bears. The small bits he mentions about his past indicate he was from another warren that stayed behind but, like Gummi Glen, their numbers dwindled until there was only him.

That leaves out two Gummi knights they run across, the Gummi adventurer in his airship, a village of "barbarian" Gummis, and the magical Gummi city of Gummadoon:
Gummi Bears 3x12 - The Knights Of Gummadoon


You do get to see the ships in the two-part "King Igthorn," but they're told to turn back.

Be sure to drink your Ovaltine.

What a completely asinine statement. That and this are the only words I can muster.