Yes, I assume you’ve met him? [He might be a little bit overprotective of Data right now but none of that shows through yet. Where Jean-Luc is from, Data is gone, after all.]
Vampires and talking animals. [It’s said as a statement more than a question. He’s going to assume that these creatures are a certain kind of alien species for now. It seems a healthy deduction that one who wasn’t used to alien encounters, as it seemed most people here were, wouldn’t jump to the conclusion that they were an alien species.] It sounds as if I’ve quite a bit of learning to do here as far as the inhabitants of the prison go. May I as where and when you are from?