George takei

I'm a civic busybody and I've been blessed with an active career.

I'm an anglophile. I visit England regularly, sometimes three or four times a year, at least once a year.

Well, the whole history of Star Trek is the market demand.

I spent my boyhood behind the barbed wire fences of American internment camps and that part of my life is something that I wanted to share with more people.

But when we came out of camp, that's when I first realized that being in camp, that being Japanese-American, was something shameful.

Then that did very well at the box office, so before you knew it, we were in a string of feature motion pictures. Then they announced that they were going to do some spinoffs of us.

Well, it gives, certainly to my father, who is the one that suffered the most in our family, and understanding of how the ideals of a country are only as good as the people who give it flesh and...

STAR TREK is a show that had a vision about a future that was positive.

This is supposed to be a participatory democracy and if we're not in there participating then the people that will manipulate and exploit the system will step in there.

You know, I grew up in two American internment camps, and at that time I was very young.