She knows what a pony is, yes. "A silicon-based rock slug... how do you know that it's sentient? How does it communicate?" She's mentally itching for a pen and paper to write down all these fascinating alien facts. Antennae! Four sexes! Arguing pigs! The last description actually makes her giggle. "They can't argue that much or they wouldn't have helped found the Federation, I'm assuming. All the same, I think I'd rather spend time with a Horta. I hate arguing."

"The Sacred Scrolls are over two thousand years old, so obviously some things got lost in the translation. But in it is a description of the Eye of Jupiter, which we found in the Temple of Five on a planet orbiting a dying star. It turns out it's a beacon, full of navigational information that is pointing us towards Earth."