 Welcome to strange new worlds. Thank you for having me. Yeah, welcome to my ready room It's a wonderful ready room. I've seen it multiple times on your astro vlog that you have. That's right. No fish tank No fish tank, right? That's okay. We can draw a fish on the board. You could have drawn because I'm not Here, there's my fish. That's a beautiful fish. Thank you I'm with Jim Davenport who is actually I want to make sure I get this right. So you are a research Scientist. I'm a research scientist here at the University of Washington Department of Astronomy Also before we dive too far into things I just also want to know what is the official name of your astro blog that I should Oh, this is a fascinating question. It is just called astro blog. Okay. Um, which is a terrible title Like I should actually give it a name Uh people ask me like what's the name of your youtube channel and it's like, um, this is my name Or astro blog. I don't know. It's I mean, I really believe strongly in branding So like On websites on projects I'm not a big fan of acronyms, but I get it and the thing that I've done the worst job branding Is my poor vlog, which I'm like now that's the thing that I'm working on a lot Yeah, and I've done a terrible job branding it astro vlog astro blog And we are and we are filming The astro blog version of the podcast at the same time right now. So yes, so we'll compare whose microphone is better Spoiler years is gonna win Favorite captain the knee-jerk reaction Picard. Okay favorite series Uh ds9 Yeah, gosh, I had to got to say that. Yeah ds9 starship enterprise d planet I guess earth in the next gen slash ds9 series Interesting. Yeah, I want to dig a little bit more on that Why why earth because star trek is all about going beyond earth and going to strange new worlds Yeah, use it earth. I like you're curious. Yeah, I like I mean, I don't know a we live here. So there's hometown pride Um, as a lot of people have said Well, how did how did freaks put it when he was quoting roddenberry that Every kid could read nobody was hungry. Nobody was wanting right where it says post scarcity economy Since I love this idea of like what our planet could be And it took a long time for star trek to like visit earth And give it like a more serious look like After picard's incident with the borg he goes home to what and but home is this transient thing for me lives on On a ship. So he goes home to his brothers and his family's wine estate And I love that I love that He goes home to this like agricultural community This rural place or just kind of like where I grew up and then sort of went to the big city And that really resonated with me and I really liked I always liked how san francisco was portrayed and I love that star fleet headquarters was a waste treatment facility That's the set they used was a waste treatment facility Um, just because it had a cool sort of sci-fi look and probably was cheap to film there That's an awesome answer. Wow. Yeah did not expect that out of a lightning round, but that's not very lightning I'm fairly you're going. No, that's all good. It's a it's a giant thunderstorm. That's under thought