He was a visitor star on the final episode of Star Trek: Enterprise together with fellow astronaut Terry W. Virts. He described in an episode of StarTalk Radio, while talking to Wil Wheaton, that he variations his sideburns in a level as an homage to Star Trek. The blurb to the Uk version of her novel Noughts and Crosses says that she is a massive enthusiast of Star Trek and her aspiration task would be to captain the USS Enterprise.