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George Takei To Play Star Trek's Sulu Again
Tycoon Guy writes "TrekToday reports that George Takei has agreed to play Hikaru Sulu in an upcoming episode of the fan series Star Trek: New Voyages. He's the second actor from the original Star Trek series to come onboard; another episode will feature Walter Koenig as Pavel Chekov. And here's what really makes this news great: Takei's episode will be written by none other than David Gerrold, the SF writer who also brought us Star Trek's Tribbles."
So what you are saying is, that the original Star Trek series was actually a show about a really loysy reality TV show from the future. Wow, communicators, red jumpsuits, teleportation, warpdrives.... They really WERE ahead of their times!
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The Final Fun Queer!
Sorry, that's bad. But I couldn't help meself.
I'll get me coat.
I've got terrible images of the Enterprise causing multiple pile-up driving at half the speed limit the wrong way down a space-highrway, as Sulu misses the one way signs due to his cataracts ...
A gay man... acting?
I mean, ya, so what if the gay actor stereotype has been around since man invented fire... Star Trek was the first show to beam a gay man.
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Tell ME about it.
There are no loopholes. It's either legal or it's not.
Yeah, I'm still waiting for the reality series but it never seems to get off the ground. GWB is talked about Mars, but he went to Iraq instead. We were supposed to have used nuclear rockets to colonize Mars by now but the projects keep getting shut down and all we are left with is fantasy.
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Shatner said this on Jimmy Kimmel's show (which is why nobody heard it) when asked if he had known, back in the '60s, that Takei was gay:
"Of course I knew... he kept setting his phaser on fabulous!"
He was also very forthright and VERY open about his personal life.
You mean like when he said that he swallows on the Howard Stern show? Yeah, I'd call that forthright.
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"Mr. Sulu! Set a course for Uranus!"
That's all I've got....=)
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When Roddenberry died, the franchise lost its soul, and became an imitation of itself.
Oh, hell, here I was warming up for a good old fashioned Kirk vs. Picard/ST:TOS vs. ST:TNG flamewar, sharpening the standard set of knives, but my boss just e.mailed me that he needs the project summary reports and '06 projections by 4:00 today, rather than next Thursday, so I just don't have time for it today. Too bad... that argument is always fun.
Slashdot editors, could you please repost this story on Monday, so we can have this argument next week? Thanks.
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Exactly. Worse yet, it's possible Gene Roddenberry was merely a producer *from* the future, where his overacting contestants on a future reality tv show didn't make enough money, so he traveled back through time with them, using extremely advanced computer graphics to make it look like an ancient American SciFi TV show (you know, powerful Cell24 processors to make bad hair appear atop their heads). This way, they knew they'd at least gather a cult following and live off geek groupies' fandom and bad sex for decades!
Ex nihilo nihil fit.
The new episode will be called "Brokeback Planet" after the awarding movie movie. Commander Sulu returns to Star Fleet HQ in San Francisco (some things dont change in three centuries) for his annual fling with an old classmate.
They wanted to get James Doohan to play Scotty until Leonard Nimoy told them, "He's dead Jim."
(For those who don't get it "He's dead Jim" is supposedly the most frequently used line of dialog in the original series.)
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DS9 was the only Trek series where I thought I might be looking at real human beings. Other Trek series treated their characters as if they were greedless, religionless, sexless robots incapable of even the slightest moral failing or ambiguity.
And it was also the only Trek series to acknowledge what holodecks would REALLY be used for.
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Sexless robots?
Dr Soong would remind you that Data was "Fully Functional".
As would Tasha Yar.
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The next time I have a long block of spare time, I intend to make a visit to Mr. Gerrold. I plan on lashing him to his word processor until the Chtorr series is complete. I've been watching "Misery" for inspiration and recommended technique.
Talk about stuff you'd do with a time machine: I have a stop to 1984 planned where I track myself down and say "that series you're about to start? You won't find out how it ends for over 20 years; don't read it yet".
What do you expect, I'm stuck in the Amazon...
There are no loopholes. It's either legal or it's not.
Just kidding, hes a great actor and I was a big fan TOS in my childhood.
As people mentioned, TOS was revolutionary in the 60's. It featured the first inter-racial (black/white) kiss seen on TV.
Where else can you find a planet-eating space monster that looks like a roach (half smoked marijuana cigarette). I imagine the writers sitting around the table passing a doobie when they came up wuth that one ;).
he needs the project summary reports
Don't you hate TPS reports?
Presumably, things would go this way:
(Sulu walks onto the bridge.)
Kirk: Sulu! Oh my god. It's ancient Sulu from the future! Gods, man! Sulu, what happened. WHAT HAPPENED?!?!? (grabbing upper arms and shaking him)
Sulu: Captain, I bring you a warning. You're gonna die a stupid death. On the positive side, it'll be climbing around on Wile-e-Coyote-style rock formations in California just like you always loved doing, like with the Gorn and that Plato guy and your old girlfriend or whoever the hell that ghosty chick was.
(Kirk looks as Spock. Spock raises an eyebrow.)
Sulu: Did you know you have a son? By the way, the Klingon's moon Praxis is going to explode in about 20 years. You might want to subtly encourage them via clandestine CIA manipulation to dump even more antimatter waste and neutronium. Perhaps it can take out their entire starsystem.
Kirk: You're kidding!
Sulu: I wish I were! (Suddenly looks woozy.)
Kirk: (catches him as he starts to fall.) Kirk to sickbay. Medical emergency on the bridge!
Sulu: Also...
Kirk: Also, what?
Sulu: Also...you must, you must destroy the Crusher family line. Just hand out some condoms to the ones currently alive should be sufficient. You need to...you need to....agk!
Kirk: Need to what? To WHAT? (shakes him gently again)
(McCoy runs in and waves the medical tricorder saltshaker thingie over him.) His career is dead, Jim.
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