I was mindful of the role that I played because we didn’t have opportunities like that before - to play one in the leadership team and to be in a futuristic utopian vision of our future.” “That was an important statement that Dr. “There was no other person representing what she represented,” Takei said. Nichols planned to leave the show after the first season, but Martin Luther King Jr. The Starship Enterprise was a model of inclusion at the time, he said, with an African American communications officer played by Nichelle Nichols and even a bridge officer with a Russian accent at the height of the Cold War.Īn audience member asked Takei about Nichols, who played Lt. Sulu on “Star Trek” put a Japanese American actor in a leading role in prime time TV when the show first aired in 1966. Takei noted that his groundbreaking role as Mr. “We were incarcerated the stereotypes and the images that were sold to the American public by the media - radio shows, movies, stage shows, comic books.” That visibility on social media and in popular culture is important to Takei. He uses the networking platform to advocate for the LGBTQ community, refugees detained on the U.S. Takei attributes his 2.9 million followers on Twitter to his tongue-in-cheek approach to politics. Takei plays Yamato-san, the community’s elder statesman. The story takes place in a fishing village on Terminal Island near San Pedro, following Japanese immigrants and their U.S.-born children as a spirit haunts them through the war. You have to be more sophisticated than that,” he said, adding that the people who stayed home because they didn’t like Hillary Clinton allowed Donald Trump to get elected.Īt 82, Takei is reliving the World War II era in his role on “ The Terror: Infamy,” an AMC series set in a Japanese American community. “In 2016, we had an election where some people decided not to vote. When an audience member asked what it’s going to take for history to stop repeating itself, Takei echoed his father: participation. Stevenson lost the race, but his father said, “In a people’s democracy, you keep on keeping on.” So much so, he took teenage Takei to volunteer at Adlai Stevenson’s presidential campaign headquarters in downtown Los Angeles during the 1950s. Takei said his father maintained an unwavering faith in American democracy, despite the family’s imprisonment. My father said, ‘You have to actively participate.’ It was the internment and my father’s good guidance that made me the activist that I am.” “As a teenager I learned about the internment and the injustice. Watanabe asked him: How did you heal from this experience? Or have you healed? In his conversation with reporter Teresa Watanabe, Takei described the effect the camps had on his life and the importance of his role as helmsman Hikaru Sulu on the original “Star Trek” TV series.
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