Via George Takei, who adds: "Overheard: 'Not all heroes wear capes. Or tops, it seems.'"
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I think it is very important for new Star Trek fans, especially new TOS fans to know that in 2008, George Takei, who played Sulu, got married to his partner of 23 years, Brad Altman, and at their wedding, Nichelle Nichols, who played Uhura, and Walter Koenig, who played Chekov, served as Best Lady and Best Man.
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When I was a little boy, the Japanese military attacked Pearl Harbor. It was a surprise attack, and thousands of U.S. servicemembers perished. As a nation, we were stunned. And we vowed to strike back. Revenge was understandably on everyone’s mind, including many Americans of Japanese descent who opposed the emperor and were peaceful and law-abiding U.S. citizens and residents.
In its zeal to exact that revenge, however, the U.S. government overreacted, out of fear and bigotry. They targeted everyone who happened to look like the people who had carried out the attack. Those of us who had done nothing wrong were forced to pay the consequences for the decisions of others far away and disconnected from us. We were interned for years, in open-air prisons, while America went off to fight Japan, Germany and Italy.
It’s so important that we carry the lessons of the past through to today. Merely because one group commits atrocities and acts with depravity does not mean vast hundreds of thousands or even millions of others should be lumped together with them and made to suffer. We must never paint with the brush of justice and retaliation too broadly, or the toll of human suffering will rise immeasurably.
—George Takei
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I cant believe he fucking said this im dead 😂
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I'm trying to listen to a star trek audiobook but fuck man this is hard
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Between that one post about Leonard Nimoy pushing for a better scene with Spock's breakdown, and now this one about George Takei directly lying to the producers to avoid Sulu getting saddled with a dumb stereotype...
I really do feel like half the reason Star Trek became as beloved as it was, was thanks to the cast not just understanding their characters better than the writers, but actively taking the reins and creating them to some degree.
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George Takei as Hikaru Sulu
STAR TREK - THE ORIGINAL SERIES
Season One, Episode Five: The Enemy Within
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I'm losing my mind over this (from the filming of TOS episode "The Naked Time"):
"The Half-Naked Crazy George Takei Time" indeed!
Taken from "Star Trek Memories" (Shatner, William, 1993)
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