Where are you, fellow enthusiasts?

Yeah, it's actually pretty cool in the long run. Although, again, in 95% of cases, this crew is thawed out by their descendants:
- Hey, Captain, there's some weird thing flying around!
- Maybe it's alien?
- Nah, there are letters on its hull, and even an American flag!
- Wow. Hey, who's our history expert?
- Me.
- Look out the window.
- Wow, it's that very ship that our primitive ancestors sent to explore the vastness of the universe hundreds of years ago! And there's probably a frozen crew on board!
- Let's thaw them out! What could possibly go wrong?
- Exactly! And we'll have fun watching them adapt to modern realities!

By the way, something similar happened in Babylon.