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George Takei Disses William Shatner & Leonard Nimoy

Takie sure knows how to take the moral high ground dosnt he?

So are we still pretending he finds all these internet memes himself then?

Or celebrating how he bravely came out as gay, after his acting career was long since dead?
 
Childhood spent in Japanese Relocation Camps during WW2. Spent half of Star Trek sharing a dressing room (and a script!) with Koenig. Spent a lidetime in the closet, since being an Asian actor was limiting enough let alone a gay one.

I'd be kind of a loudmouth at his age too.
 
Shatner never locked his family up in the war.
Shatner wasnt in charge of dressing rooms or scripts.
Shatner never kept him in the closet.

All Shatner (and Nimoy) did was star (and they were the stars) in the show that he had a supporting role in, the show that is the only reason people had even heard of him.

Most of what he has now, he has because of Shatner, and maybe its that thought that fuels most of his misplaced anger towards him.
 
Funny, I would think most people would say that what he has now, he has because of Roddenberry.

I must have missed the Shatner Trek novel where Shatner went back in time and replaced Roddenberry as creator of the franchise.

Shatner and Nimoy had the time of their lives and got to be the Trek Divas; everyone else got scraps. Takei isn't the only supporting player possessing this attitude.
 
Roddenberry made one star trek pilot with Nimoy, it didn't go to series, he filmed another one with Shatner, it went to series.

Most of us know that series well, and we remember whose name was at the start of the show, and whose names showed up at the end.

They got scraps because they were meant to get scraps, the stars have to carry the show, the later shows that followed were proper ensembles with all the cast names in the opening credits, the sixties were a different time.

Shatner and Nimoy where only characters to appear in all the episodes (excluding the original pilot) there were plenty of episodes that didn't have the others, did any episode truly suffer from not having Sulu in?

Were any episodes ruined because there was no Scotty that week?

Chekov didnt even start till season two, and it was season three before Deforest even got his name in the opening credits.

Roddonberry might have come up with the idea, but it was other writers and producers that came up with many of the best episodes and concepts.

Shatner did not write some lyrics to the star trek theme (lyrics that were never even used) so that he could claim half the ownership of the tune, and get half the residuals every time it was played rather than the whole thing going to Alexander Courage, that was Rod.
 
Yeah DAMN that Roddenberry for being delusional enough to think he actually created the entire Trekverse! When we all know it was just scribbles on a matchbook before Shatner touched it to his holy cheek, and lo! Out sprang the Enterprise!

Let us turn in our hymnals to #45, "Redshirts...Go...Where...I...Send...Thee".
 
We can do both!

DS9 was my favourite, and I still feel annoyed it was denied a feature film spin off.
 
Yup - no DS9, no Voyager. But BBC America plays the hell out of TNG. Reruns the same 5 episodes for a week.

Thank God I have all of DS9 on DVD. And have "acquired" most of VOY by other means...
 
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