Alec isn't very good at giving adoration to people - unless he's crushing on them. He is not crushing on SHODAN. She's not his type. And it's not his fault that he's been around the mulitverse enough times to get a store worth of tee-shirts.

"I would be! It's pretty hard to impress a being like myself," he said. "So. What else do you need to know? I'd be careful about trying to get into the computer systems here."