He was a guest star on the last episode of Star Trek: Enterprise together with fellow astronaut Terry W. Virts. He mentioned in an episode of StarTalk Radio, whilst conversing to Wil Wheaton, that he types his sideburns in a issue as an homage to Star Trek. The blurb to the Uk version of her novel Noughts and Crosses suggests that she is a enormous fan of Star Trek and her desire work would be to captain the USS Enterprise.