I don’t think Trelane was supposed to be Q’s son, just a Q, with different parents (Q and Q, I guess, though what’s with Trelane having an actual name?). It’s a reasonable bit of revisionism, really. As for Q and Picard…well, the subtext is screamingly obvious. I wouldn’t blame Q for having a thing for Picard at all. Mmm.
Takei is a really nice man, and while I’ve figured he was gay for years, it’s nice that he feels safe enough to officially come out. Not that it really matters otherwise. I must agree, he was a hottie back then, horrible 60s haircut or not.
Followed by James Doohan and Nichelle Nichols. Nimoy seems to have some affection for Shatner, but even that I think is latter-day (since they’re the two highest paid alumni) but I think he’s unique among the cast. Apparently the man is just an pompous ass’s pompous ass.
Gay Klingons- an entire race of tops. That could explain their agression.
I think the nadir of Takei’s career, incidentally, has to be his guest appearance on Murder She Wrote. He played a Japanese janitor and literally spoke in the “Lookee what I find in t-l-ash can” stock voice. I was surprised he did it, but then it was probably 2 days work and $30,000 or whatever, and I’d definitely play a redneck stereotype for a lot less than that.
One of my favorite of his acting jobs was when he played himself as a pissed off hotel guest on an episode of Third Rock From the Sun. I’m glad that theater allows him to actually still take challenging roles, though he admits he doesn’t do much of it because the Cons pay so much more. (He’ll probably make a few thousand dollars per week tops for EQUUS and can make the same amount for one appearance at a YourTownHereCon and get first class accomodations.)
And he met the love of his life at 50. Maybe there’s hope for me yet… I just need to become a runner and a typecast SciFi icon.
I had thought that Takei was one of the officers on the bridge in the 70s moviextravaganza Midway. It turns out I was mentally putting him in there, since every English-speaking Japanese actor anybody ever heard of was on that bridge, including Arnold from Happy Days. (IN SEN-SUR-ROUUUNNNDDD!!1!)
Well, while I know “it doesn’t prove anything”, Sulu is the only non-Kirk cast member to have a child. We met his daughter in ST VI, I believe. No mention of a mother or partner, and Kirk said something like, “When did Sulu find the time to have a family?” meaning it wasn’t just a surrogate womb or something.
Of course, he and a male partner could have adopted, but the girl looked Japanese-American too. I dunno.
George Takei was in John Wayne’s “The Green Berets” He was a south Vietnamese soldier.
A couple days ago on a local entertainment show they were talking about his coming out. The only clip they showed of him in Star Trek (which they showed twice) was one were he leaned in close to some other guy and said “Let’s you and I go to the gym”
I read the article/interview yesterday. Takei has not been “officially” out, though he was not trying to keep it secret either. For years, he treated it as pretty much a non-issue for the most part. If gays want a representative, they could do a whole lot worse. He is intelligent, literate, well spoken, dignified, and for his age he is still damn good looking. As far as Chekhov being the cute one on the original show, well shit. Sulu was way better looking.
And Agnes Moorehead for a mother to boot (The Conqueror). Though I think the Kevin Bacon of gay is, in fact, the Redgrave clan (all of whom have been married to or sired by a gay man, it would seem).
Incidentally, I always thought George would be the ideal candidate for a revival of The King & I. While far from a dead ringer, he looks a lot more like Mongkut than Yul Brynner or Lou Diamond Phillips did and is a lot closer to the real man’s age than Chow Yun Phat was, and he’s believable as somebody who has spent most of his adult life in a monastery.
