He was a visitor star on the closing episode of Star Trek: Enterprise along with fellow astronaut Terry W. Virts. He stated in an episode of StarTalk Radio, even though chatting to Wil Wheaton, that he kinds his sideburns in a position as an homage to Star Trek. The blurb to the Uk edition of her novel Noughts and Crosses says that she is a large admirer of Star Trek and her desire career would be to captain the USS Enterprise.