Star Trek, and you, have been a part of my life since my earliest memories.

Both are treasured.

Thank you... @georgetakei

For the entertainment and the thought-provoking questions raised throughout. In short, thank you for your service, not just to the US, but to global human values worth their weight in gold!

The hope in humanity that Star Trek displayed was ahead of its time.

It showed "we don't have to live this way" to millions of people.

We don't have to accept corruption.

We don't have apathetically sit by & watch as the planet fries.

We don't have to tolerate dictatorship.

We don't have to live with an economy rigged against the very premise of "Live Long & Prosper" by selfish billionaires.

This turned out to be a very special project for a lot of people.

I know you've heard a million of these stories, so I won't imagine you'll make time to indulge mine, but I'll share it anyway: dad had (on Betamax) every episode of the original series except one, which he meticulously recorded from the Harrisburg airwaves over a summer or so, then re-recorded to drop the commercials. I was born in the '80s and it was one of the first shows I was ever familiar with; I don't know if Dad watched it with me at first or if I found the tapes in the collection and started putting them in, but it was on-background for most of my childhood from 3 to 12 at least. Next Generation then hit at just the right time to catch me, and dad and I watched it together for years. It didn't hurt that the character of Wesley Crusher was just a touch older than me and sort of became the fictional big brother I didn't have.

Thank you for making something that ended up very important in my life. It's a series I've come back to again and again as I've gotten older, and it's meant something different every time. You and your co-stars got the ball rolling on something very special, and I'm grateful for it.

thank you for boldly going where no one has gone before and for continuing to go boldly!

I am immensely grateful to you and and the whole Star Trek Universe - to bring it to The Next Generation for a minute, "Hmmm... Well... maybe... it's worth giving up cigars for, after all." -- Samuel Clemens

#OTD #StarTrek began shaping the 7 yo grrrl I was into the #Nonbinary #AntiRacist person I've become

Each series opened new frontiers and pushed back against social straight-jackets by envisioning a future Free Of Them

That vision is still needed, perhaps more now than ever, as oligarchic autocracy spreads around the globe.

Thank you, @georgetakei , for representing that vision on #Mastodon with compassion, humor, & 🌈🔥 🖖🏽

thanks for all of it! Star Trek gave me a place in my childhood where no bullies would follow because all of the ideals in Star Trek are too alien to them.

My childhood was a lonely one because I liked tech, the nerdy new computers and I got bullied a lot, hurt, attacked. Star Trek gave me hope for a better tomorrow 😊

"The Naked Time"

Episode 4

September 29, 1966

A virus removes inhibitions, leading Sulu to display his desire to be a swashbuckler, and so he runs around the Enterprise, challenging crew members to duels

We love it

Thank you George

Thank you George Takei and all the rest of the cast and crew of the USS Enterprise for imagining a future to work for.

And thank you for all your activism then,
And your continued activism today.
You are an inspiration and an example.

Im happy to say I had to pleasure of meeting you once at a convention.
I might have been 6, and I asked you how to pronounce your name.
You said "Takei, like Oh kay".
I still remember it.

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Ich danke für die schönen Stunden, die ich mit euren Filme geschenkt bekam.

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Thank you for the nice hours I got with your films.