If the present technology is any indication, that is of little surprise. We're from well outside the Sol galaxy. I'm an alien basically, but I least I can promise you that I'm generally less pretentious than a hanar and a whiz with technology -- which probably is not a very convincing argument and..
Oh. So your Father is part Elf? And is this were the model of pretentious comes from? I can understand that. To a degree at least. Father's are very...complicated things.