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George Takei To Play Star Trek's Sulu Again

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the back-in-the-saddle dept.

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."

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  1. Takei on Stern's Show by putko · · Score: 2, Informative

    George Takei is amazing. Now he's on Stern, where he came out of the closet.

    Stern asked him what positions he likes, and Takei went into it. Here's some proof: http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/stern-age-begi ns/2006/01/13/1137118970418.html

    Really funny. Takei sounds like a very earnest guy though -- it is great he gets to work on this stuff.

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    1. Re:Takei on Stern's Show by Ardeocalidus · · Score: 2, Informative

      He's great. He also described his (now former according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Takei#Star_Tre k) loathing for Shatner on Stern. On Jan. 9th, Stern announced that Takei would be the official announcer for his show. Even more of a reason to get Sirius.

    2. Re:Takei on Stern's Show by putko · · Score: 2, Informative

      Oh Man! That is amazing. He actually publicly accused Shatner. That's great.

      I think Takei was the best on Stern when they have the Schwarzenegger impersonator, and Takei was trying to get him to agree to sign the gay marriage bill. It was so amazing to see how cool he stayed, how nice he was, even as the Arnold impersonator insulted and degraded him so much -- because he really wanted the governor to sign that bill.

      Takei seems like a very, very nice and decent guy. I simply couldn't believe the mocking and abuse he put up with -- esp. the cracks about the internment camps that the impersonator made.

      Stern's show is amazing!

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  2. _PLEASE_ hire real actors!! by bani · · Score: 2, Informative

    I tried to watch this. I really tried. But the acting was just so horrible...

    Please please please, hire real actors for this thing. No more fans-as-armchair-actors, please....

  3. Re:I wonder... by UrLordMafiu · · Score: 4, Informative

    I've heard from other sources that Paramount let them do this as long as they make no money from it. No Money period. Thats not just a profit, thats no income. As soon as they could be taking money from paramount, they get a call from the lawyers. I think thats why they dont even offer the episodes on dvd, because they would get have to charge, and then be stopped. So its costing them money probably. Which is why theres no money to hire other actors. It appears it's all just for love..

  4. Re:Takei is gay by Ardeocalidus · · Score: 2, Informative
    Apparantly, there was some persecution with the producers of the series because of his orientation. He never officially, and publicly, came out, but to some it was obvious.

    He should be applauded for persuing his career in a time when Gay men weren't openly favored in Hollywood. He never came out, but he never let it stop him.

  5. Re:No kids == Instant win by Rothron+the+Wise · · Score: 2, Informative

    It won't be the next big thing but I seen far worse. That norwegian star trek/babylon 5 "comedy" for one.

    If you're referring to http://www.starwreck.com/, it's Finnish, not Norwegian.

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  6. Re:I wonder... by Ardeocalidus · · Score: 4, Informative
    Apparantly, Paramount has a rather symbiote relationship with fan-based creations.

    Paramount provided the original blueprints of TOS' sets.

    In return, Paramount has borrowed a number of props from NY, including the Helmsman's pop-up console.

    All in all, I think it could be profitable for Paramount.

  7. Is Sulu still the Captain of the Excelsior? by digitaldc · · Score: 2, Informative

    Last I heard Sulu was still patrolling the Cardassian border in the U.S.S. Excelsior.
    Maybe he has moved on to seek out new worlds, but he is definitely still kicking butt at 113+ years old!

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  8. Re:Oh my! by sgant · · Score: 2, Informative

    hehe, exactly. That's what I mean. Howard asked all these really dirty, personal questions and George didn't even flinch and answered everything Howard dished out. Now, maybe he was a little TOO open and forthright really, but he was a good sport about it all.

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  9. Re:Production and Distribution, what distribution? by denis-The-menace · · Score: 2, Informative

    What distribution? Their mirrors have ignored them.
    -The BitTorrent page doesn't work.
    -The Official site decided to renumber the episodes by making their pilot episode 0. Meanwhile their mirrors still use the original numbering scheme.
    -You can only get the latest episode ("To Serve All My Day's") from ONE site: Official site. And yes, it's crawling.

    The kicker is that I told the webmaster about all this a week ago.

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  10. Re:John Lim was pissed! by shirai · · Score: 4, Informative

    Gee, now I feel really bad.

    I tried to make that post so ridiculous that it would never be mistaken for anything but a joke. I was hoping for +4 funny but got +4 interesting instead.

    My apologies to Mr. Lim and Mr. Takei who never said any of those things.

    You see, the joke was, Lim was pissed he lost his role as Mr. Sulu to Takei. Of course, he lost it because Takei IS Mr. Sulu (more or less). Why would Lim be pissed? The irony was supposed be funny (obviously not if you have to explain the joke). The thing about the worm hole was supposed to add to the ridiculousness of the post but I guess in Star Trek, it came across as dead serious.

    Ah well, there goes my mod points...

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