Barack Obama, geek sympathizer?

“I think Obama, being a generation where ‘Star Trek’ was influential on people growing up as kids, one shouldn’t be surprised that he would stand proud and say he’s of this influence,” said Tyson. “I don’t know if he’s a full up geek — full up geek, those folk can cite digits of Pi and solve the Rubik’s Cube and all of this. But we’ll certainly take him as a geek sympathizer.”

But don’t forget about Bill Clinton. “Consider that President Clinton, he might have been the first president to wear a digital watch,” said Tyson. “It wasn’t even an expensive watch! … It wasn’t even a good one!”