"Yeah, I guess." It is technically the name of the planet itself, as he correctly surmises, even if most people don't really think of it that way--space travel is the stuff of fairy tales, after all.

But not to this guy, obviously. She can't even be too surprised anymore, since he's not the first on this bucket to say so--but she does snort with a bit of derisive amusement. "You got lost out in space? Some things really never change."

As for the captain, though... "I'm not sure I'd call it a 'soft spot' so much as a creepy obsession. The guy's some Earth movie nut, apparently--enough that he goes around looking like some character he remembers, or something like that." Rita shrugs again, because it's not like she has any idea what movie or character it could possibly be.