I think Tucker is trying to figure out a way to slowly edge his audience bit by bit into the rabbit hole—before introducing them to the Queen.
Queen on interstellar navigation:
“Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!”
Queen on metaphysics:
“Take a bone from a dog: what remains?” [asked the Red Queen] Alice considered. “The bone wouldn’t remain, of course, if I took it-and the dog wouldn’t remain; it would come to bite me-and I’m sure I shouldn’t remain!” “Then you think nothing would remain?” said the Red Queen. “I think that’s the answer.” “Wrong, as usual,” said the Red Queen, “the dog’s temper would remain.””
Queen on alien technology:
“”I could have done it in a much more complicated way,” said the Red Queen, immensely proud.”
;-)
I see: a fairy tale.