He was a visitor star on the last episode of Star Trek: Enterprise along with fellow astronaut Terry W. Virts. He talked about in an episode of StarTalk Radio, though speaking to Wil Wheaton, that he kinds his sideburns in a level as an homage to Star Trek. The blurb to the Uk version of her novel Noughts and Crosses claims that she is a massive enthusiast of Star Trek and her aspiration position would be to captain the USS Enterprise.