He was a visitor star on the final episode of Star Trek: Enterprise along with fellow astronaut Terry W. Virts. He pointed out in an episode of StarTalk Radio, even though conversing to Wil Wheaton, that he types his sideburns in a stage as an homage to Star Trek. The blurb to the Uk edition of her novel Noughts and Crosses suggests that she is a massive fan of Star Trek and her desire task would be to captain the USS Enterprise.