He's gay, Jim...
Posted on 10/22/2008 10:47:37 AM PDT by gridlock
"Hogged the limelight". It is called playing a supporting role when someone else has the lead, drama queen.
Since the Uranus/Klingons joke has already been made several times, yes, it is a ‘shop. Not mine; it’s been floating around the web for a while.
P.S. You know why Sulu preferred first-timers as his “catchers”?
He wanted to boldly go where no man had gone before.
If, forty years from now, at the age of eighty, I have as my best man somebody I am working with now, but have not had anything to do with between now and then, will somebody please hold a pillow over my face until I stop struggling?
You gotta move on, man!
Hardly fighting words. Pretty much sums up my attitude about the whole thing.
Me, I don't care about anyone's sex life unless they're living under my roof. That's just me, the wife, and my eight year old daughter. The dog is there too but she's fixed (and she's a dog) so she has my permission to do whatever she likes.
He's gay, Jim...
Yattah!
Sulu was a Lieutenant in the show.
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Beebers on stune!
Lmao!
Hellllooooo
Excellent video clip!
Phasers on PHABULOUS!
LOL!
The creativity of people here on FR never ceases to amaze me, very very clever...
Shatner wrote a couple of books about his experiences on the original Start Trek tv series and the movie franchise. I have them both. He and Leonard Nimoy had a fascinating contractual link. They had their contracts written in such a way so that neither could gain anything financially from their star status on the series unless the other was granted the exact same benefits. So if Spock's star was rising, Kirk got pulled along and vice versa. Very smart.
Shatner was aware that although it was an ensemble cast, he and Nimoy were the "stars" and they were pretty aggressive in making certain they got the lion's share of screen time. This caused a lot of ill will among the other cast members, who wisely kept their mouths shut to keep their jobs. After the series was cancelled, all the others came out with caustic remarks. Jimmy Doohan (the late "Scotty") said the same crap as Takei. Still it seems like sour grapes and jealousy to me. What has any of them done? The exception was the late Deforrest Kelly who was a champion of the "B" Western from the 60's. I almost remember him as much for those as for Star Trek.
Takei was always more than a screaming liberal. In fact he's an American hating communist. I think he wrote a book that was more autobiographical than expository on Star Trek. He was always ranting about how evil this country was and how he suffered in a Japanese internment camp during WWII. You know, come to think of it, when I was an army officer stationed at Fort Lewis Washington, I used to party quite a bit in Seattle. One night I was riding an elevator to the top of the famed Space Needle for dinner and a drink with some of my buddies, and I noticed that the other passengers in the elevator were George Takei and Walter Koenig (Chekov). I remember recognizing them because they were wearing polo shirts with the Starfleet logo. Both of them seemed to be quite a bit shorter in person than they seemed on TV. I thought not much about it and didn't ask for an autograph or anything, which I think was a relief to them. This was in 1983 and Sulu was still in the closet about his sexuality. They were alone, just the two of them. Hmmmmmmm. I wonder.....
Georgia on his mind?
I was stationed at Ft. Lewis from 1980-1982, C Company, 9th Med Bat. You?
LOL. This is all about a washed up actor (Takei, not Shattner, who is inexplicably still very popular) screaming for attention.
A homosexual attention hound? What will they think of next?
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