Do you have any favourite technical lines that you had to repeat quite often?

Oh, you mean little ones like, �Red alert!� Or - �Take us out. Take us in.� �Go to impulse.� �Is that a temporal anomaly we�re approaching?� �Slow down. Get out. Get up.�

�Red alert!� is, I think my trade mark expression.

It does sound cool, doesn�t it? Whenever there�s a fluency or a fluidity coming from someone else, it�s very foreignness is compelling. That�s why we love to listen to a lot of people from different countries sitting and having a drink, right? �What are they saying? Isn�t it marvellous?� Well, to them it�s not marvellous, but to us it�s brand new.

And for these viewers who are hard core fans, it�s not brand new. So they�re watching how well you speak French, or Japanese, and they�re judging it, and as you gain in fluency I think they�re with you, they become more supportive. It�s almost like watching a sport.