I’m screaming in 10 different languages

Keptin….inwented by Russians…cossacks…wick-tor-wick-tor-two…

George Takei was so excited to do this shirtless episode. He spent all his free time doing push-ups for a week before they shot this.

they were going to give him a katana and have him be a samurai, but he didn’t want to be stereotypical, so he told the execs that he could fence and they wrote in references to the three musketeers instead

he could not, in fact, fence

he spent the weekend before shooting learning how

Not only that, but he found he liked fencing, kept it up, and became a master fencer.

When I had the privilege to hear him talk at AwesomeCon 2015, he informed us he is a master fencer. It was a very clear implication that he is still fencing at his advanced age. No wonder he’s so healthy.

He had far too much fun with this episode and it shows.

Hikaru Sulu, our first Space Pirate.

Reblogging for all this cool trivia

And also for George Takei running through the Starship Enterprise with a sword and cackling sinisterly

Reblogging for ALL of this, and for the coolness of George Takei still kicking butt with a sword to this day!

Reblog if you trust George Takei with a sword to protect you

Today marks the 50th anniversary of Star Trek. Actor George Takei spoke to Terry Gross in 2014 about how he didn’t think the show would last: 

When we were filming the pilot for Star Trek back in 1965, I said to Jimmy Doohan [the actor who played Scotty in the series], “I smell quality with this series.”

Well, the scripts were intelligent, well-written scripts and the actors were very fine, professional actors. And I told Jimmy, “We’re going to be proud of what we did, but this means we’re in trouble.”

Because all the TV series that I loved — all the ones that I thought had some substance — were immediately canceled.

And I said, “We won’t last a season.”

Well, I was wrong on that — we lasted three seasons. But nevertheless, we were canceled, so I had no idea in reruns we would finally find our audience and become enormously popular.

Check out the full interview.

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George Takei with husband Brad Altman, Rod Roddenberry, and lucky fans aboard a Zero-G flight on Aug. 17, 2016.

This is so sweet

when george takei literally creates a callout post video for trump to go see allegiance on broadway