He was a visitor star on the remaining episode of Star Trek: Enterprise along with fellow astronaut Terry W. Virts. He described in an episode of StarTalk Radio, when chatting to Wil Wheaton, that he types his sideburns in a stage as an homage to Star Trek. The blurb to the Uk version of her novel Noughts and Crosses says that she is a enormous supporter of Star Trek and her dream work would be to captain the USS Enterprise.