You know, I grew up in two American internment camps, and at that time I was very young. George Takei Read Quote
I was four years old when Pearl Harbor was bombed on December 7, 1941 by Japan, and overnight, the world was plunged into a world war. America suddenly was swept up by hysteria. George Takei Read Quote
I may not have trekked through the galaxies in reality. But I have trekked all over this planet: Australia, Asia, Latin America, Europe. George Takei Read Quote
One of the gifts of ‘Star Trek’ is my professional work colleagues have become my lifelong friends. George Takei Read Quote
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. George Takei Read Quote
I’m particularly impressed by the creation of the character of Spock, which really was Leonard Nimoy’s singular creation. He used everything he had. George Takei Read Quote
Every time we had a hot war going on in Asia, it was difficult for Asian Americans here. George Takei Read Quote
What is important is the reliability of my posts being there to greet my fans with a smile or a giggle every morning. That’s how we keep on growing. George Takei Read Quote
You know what the lowest rated episode we ever had was? Where Captain Kirk kissed Uhuru – a white man kissing an African-American woman. All the stations in the American South – in Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana – refused to air it. And so our ratings plummeted. George Takei Read Quote
Happily, the days when overt racial discrimination and segregation were championed by social conservatives are long past. George Takei Read Quote