Trivia and Quotes
Quotes
 STAR TREK is a show that had a vision about a future that was positive. You know, I grew up in two American internment camps, and at that time I was very young.
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Well, the whole history of Star Trek is the market demand.
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And it seems to me important for a country, for a nation to certainly know about its glorious achievements but also to know where its ideals failed, in order to keep that from happening again.
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Then that did very well at the box office, so before you knew it, we were in a string of feature motion pictures. Then they announced that they were going to do some spinoffs of us.
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The world has changed from when I was a young teen feeling ashamed for being gay. The issue of gay marriage is now a political issue. That would have been unthinkable when I was young. (2005)
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So the history of Star Trek is one directed, guided and determined by the Star Trek fans, and here they are again, asserting themselves.
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Well, it gives, certainly to my father, who is the one that suffered the most in our family, and understanding of how the ideals of a country are only as good as the people who give it flesh and blood.
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But when we came out of camp, that`s when I first realized that being in camp, that being Japanese-American, was something shameful.
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My memories of camp - I was four years old to eight years old - they`re fond memories.
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I`ve run the marathon several times, so I definitely don`t look like the Great Ancestor!
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I thought this convention phenomenon was very flattering, but that`s about the extent of it.
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I`m an anglophile. I visit England regularly, sometimes three or four times a year, at least once a year.
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So I`ve been a political activist all my life and I think in a large measure it`s because of the internment that we experienced 50 years ago.
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As you know, when Star Trek was canceled after the second season, it was the activism of the fans that revived it for a third season.
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[Talking about William Shatner]: "He`s just a wonderful actor who created a singular character. No one could have done Kirk the way Bill did. His energy and his determination, that`s Bill. And that`s also Captain Kirk."
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I spent my boyhood behind the barbed wire fences of American internment camps and that part of my life is something that I wanted to share with more people.
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I`m also serving as a commissioner on the Japan-U.S. Commission, appointed by President Clinton, which will be taking me to Tokyo in June.
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Plays close, movies wrap and TV series eventually get cancelled, and we were cancelled in three season.
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I love the show, and I`m proud of my association with the show, and certainly the character is one that is very much a part of me.
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To do theater you need to block off a hunk of time.
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This is supposed to be a participatory democracy and if we`re not in there participating then the people that will manipulate and exploit the system will step in there.
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Yes, I remember the barbed wire and the guard towers and the machine guns, but they became part of my normal landscape. What would be abnormal in normal times became my normality in camp.
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I went to school in a black tar-paper barrack [as a child in internment camps] and began the day seeing the barbed-wire fence, and thank god those barbed-wire fences are now long gone for Japanese Americans. But I still see an invisible, legalistic barbed-wire that keeps me, my partner of 19 years, Brad Altman, and another group of Americans separated from a normal life. That`s what I`ve been advocating on the Human Rights Campaign Equality Tour--I call it the Equality Trek." [during a 2006 interview with Scott Simon on National Public Radio]
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Every time we had a hot war going on in Asia, it was difficult for Asian Americans here.
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I`m a civic busybody and I`ve been blessed with an active career.
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I marched back then - I was in a civil-rights musical, Fly Blackbird, and we met Martin Luther King.
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Trivia
When he met with Gene Roddenberry about a role on Star Trek, Roddenberry called him Takei (pronouncing it "Ta-kai"), which translates from Japanese to "expensive" (his name is pronounced "Ta-kay". It rhymes with "OK"). This is how Roddenberry remembered his name.
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Has stated that his favourite Star Trek episode is "The Naked Time".
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His father was an Anglophile, and named him George after King George VI of the United Kingdom, whose coronation took place in 1937.
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For the 1988 television special "The Star Trek Saga: From One Generation to the Next", Takei explains how he once rode an L.A. plane with Patrick Stewart. They talked immediately after recognizing one another, but there was complications during final approach. Unknown to either actor until landing. He joked to the pilots that the helmsman of the original Enterprise and captain of Enterprise-D could have offered assistance.
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He initially declined to appear in Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan (1982), but William Shatner personally called him and persuaded him to star in the film.
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Reprised his Hikaru Sulu role for the 2006 Internet-only "Star Trek: New Voyages" series, after the suggestion of co-star Walter Koenig.
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Along with Robert Duncan McNeill and Robert Picardo, he is one of only three "Star Trek" regulars to wear all three uniform colours. He wore blue (medical/science) uniform in the second "Star Trek" (1966) pilot "Where No Man Has Gone Before", the gold (command) uniform in every subsequent episode of the series in which he appeared and the red (security) uniform in "Mirror, Mirror".
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A favorite of the Howard Stern audience.
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His character Kaito Nakamura's last name is his mother's maiden name.
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Graduate of UCLA
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Has been a jogger for many years, and runs marathons.
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Has appeared in episodes of three different series with Grace Lee Whitney: "Star Trek" (1966), "Star Trek: Voyager" (1995) and "Diagnosis Murder" (1993).
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His family was incarcerated at an internment camp in Arkansas when he was 4 to 8 years old. He learned to recite The Pledge of Allegiance while surrounded by guard towers and barbed-wire fences.
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Among his first acting jobs was as a voice artist. Although he was only a teenager, he dubbed English dialog for adult characters in Japanese films being released in the United States.
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During WWII, lived with his family in several government internment camps for people of Japanese descent.
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Son of Takekuma Norman Takei, who worked in real estate, and wife Fumiko Emily Nakamura.
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In 1996, Takei became the first Star Trek actor to go to a South American convention, in Sćo Paulo, Brazil.
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He initially objected to the scene in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984) where the big Starfleet guard calls him "tiny." When the scene was screened for audiences, the audiences cheered Sulu (Takei) when he defeated the big guard, and Takei later apologized to writer Harve Bennett for it.
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An asteroid between Mars and Jupiter has been renamed 7307 Takei in his honor.
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Has appeared in episodes of three different series with Walter Koenig: "Star Trek" (1966), "Diagnosis Murder" (1993) and "Futurama" (1999).
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Has appeared in episodes of three different series with William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy and Nichelle Nichols: "Star Trek" (1966), "Star Trek" (1973) and "Futurama" (1999).
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