In an interview with Star Trek reboot star Zachary Quinto, TIME magazine's Sam Lansky couldn't resist the opportunity to somehow lump Donald Trump's vice president choice of Mike Pence with the ISIS-inspired massacre in Orlando.

Speaking to the openly gay actor, Lansky asked:

"In the wake of the attacks in Orlando and Trump picking Mike Pence as his running mate, does it feel like a frightening moment to be a gay American? It does for me."

Quinto responded:

"There are indicators of the pendulum swinging the other way right now in terms of the political temperature and the landscape of Trump. It’s absurd to me, but I have to have faith that we’ll endure and triumph. I have to feel like people will look at these two old white men, who represent everything that is negative in history, and say there are more people who want to go a different direction. I hope so. I am scared. I don’t take anything for granted. I have a lot of people in my life that think there’s no way Trump will win. I don’t believe that for a second. We have to fight with everything we have to continue the path that we’ve been able to gain such ground on in the last five to ten years. It’s just a bleak and dangerous moment in our geopolitical landscape right now. It’s unprecedented in our lifetime how precariously we’re all perched—not just here in this country but around the world."

The actor also said the new film, Star Trek Beyond, features an adversary in the Federation, which represents a parallel to the current climate around the world. Both Quinto and Lansky feel this movie is "timely" to all the division in the country. Quinto said:

"Our adversary in this movie is a being who’s diametrically opposed to the Federation. He wants to destroy a place that’s a hub for different species and races—people from all over the galaxy coming together and inhabiting this one place. It’s weirdly parallel to what’s going on all over the world right now. There’s waves of nationalism and xenophobia and fear-based thinking and intolerance. It’s alarming. At the end of the day, this is a blockbuster summer popcorn movie—we’re not trying to delve into any of these themes explicitly—but what Star Trek represents is the idea that unity will always overcome hatred."

Sure, there's no agenda to the movie, just pure Hollywood entertainment. Got it.