2005, really. He wonders if they had met aliens in his home universe at that point, and he just didn't know about it. He wonders if they have here -- well, obviously, with the help of the rift, but that's different. That's not so much exploration and diplomacy so much as the universe randomly throwing aliens at them, much to both Earth's and the aliens' discontent.

"Not on my version of Earth, no. At least not to my knowledge," he answers. "But they sure are here, and I've been here a while, so." He shrugs. "You've got some current events to catch up though, I suppose. The Rift actually moved me backwards in time, but only by like, a week."