"It is strange that it happened to begin with, we were all forced through decontamination when we arrived." Though maybe a shower isn't enough to eradicate space flu. He's not a doctor, he doesn't know.

The reference is lost on him, but he presumes it's a bad thing from his world that involves robots, "Can you actually reprogram them and fix them? They may appreciate that, some of them seem to be malfunctioning."