when you’re going up for what could be a
running part in the series you have a
whole group a team of people
interviewing you Network people
advertising people stupid because you’re
not a one-off character right they’re
marrying you for exactly uh it’s the
marriage rabbuna and I was prepared for
that when I walked into Gene
Roddenberry’s office first of all he
mispronounced my a surname he called me
Takei but I corrected that I said my
name is pronounced Takei but I don’t
object to Kai because that’s a Japanese
word that means expensive and he said oh
my goodness and I told them but the K
doesn’t mean chief either Jim I’m very
creator of Star Trek creative Star Trek
producer Rider a visionary all-around
creative guy creative guy and with a
vision of what we could be but I think
they sent his ashes to the moon not to
the moon no to order two orbits yes he’s
made it into space he’s still out there
he’s still Jimmy doing that his ashes
sent out there too okay
but I guess he wasn’t quite in orbit
because he fell back down to New Mexico
Gene Roddenberry really deserves and and
should be up there because Star Trek was
more than just and he felt the
television you know it certainly needs
to entertain but it also needs to inform
and inspire did you know this at the
time at the time are you just doing
television or are you saying to yourself
this is some good going down here this
is whoa because the show did get
canceled all right right but I knew that
it was a Cardassians have been going
went longer than the original Star Trek
yeah but we on Star Trek we had the
Cardassians
we talked about books we had read movies
that we liked current events issues you
know we had a wonderful engaging
conversation and described the show and
it was thrilling that vision that he had
Starship Enterprise a metaphor of a
starship earth and the strength of the
starship lay in its diversity coming
together and working and nobody was
thinking that back then nobody was
thinking I mean you know minorities
weren’t in anything no no
running part in the series you have a
whole group a team of people
interviewing you Network people
advertising people stupid because you’re
not a one-off character right they’re
marrying you for exactly uh it’s the
marriage rabbuna and I was prepared for
that when I walked into Gene
Roddenberry’s office first of all he
mispronounced my a surname he called me
Takei but I corrected that I said my
name is pronounced Takei but I don’t
object to Kai because that’s a Japanese
word that means expensive and he said oh
my goodness and I told them but the K
doesn’t mean chief either Jim I’m very
creator of Star Trek creative Star Trek
producer Rider a visionary all-around
creative guy creative guy and with a
vision of what we could be but I think
they sent his ashes to the moon not to
the moon no to order two orbits yes he’s
made it into space he’s still out there
he’s still Jimmy doing that his ashes
sent out there too okay
but I guess he wasn’t quite in orbit
because he fell back down to New Mexico
Gene Roddenberry really deserves and and
should be up there because Star Trek was
more than just and he felt the
television you know it certainly needs
to entertain but it also needs to inform
and inspire did you know this at the
time at the time are you just doing
television or are you saying to yourself
this is some good going down here this
is whoa because the show did get
canceled all right right but I knew that
it was a Cardassians have been going
went longer than the original Star Trek
yeah but we on Star Trek we had the
Cardassians
we talked about books we had read movies
that we liked current events issues you
know we had a wonderful engaging
conversation and described the show and
it was thrilling that vision that he had
Starship Enterprise a metaphor of a
starship earth and the strength of the
starship lay in its diversity coming
together and working and nobody was
thinking that back then nobody was
thinking I mean you know minorities
weren’t in anything no no
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