Re: George Takei Discloses His Homosexuality

Pat Flannery wrote: 


John Savard wrote:

It says that he joined in 1973, but 1963 sounds more reasonable. 


That *is* ridiculous. But 1963 is wrong too. The TV series Star Trek
aired during the 1966-67, 1967-68 and 1968-69 television seasons.

As _almost_ everyone knows.




OH-OH! an Alternate Star Trek Timeline created by a Reverse Tachyon Field impacting the Borg Chronoton Emitter?
Q! It was you, Q! It was you all along! Now put it right and give Sulu his heterosexuality back! ;-)

Prichard



George Takei was definately hired by 1965 when they made the second
pilot for Star Trek after the first was rejected in late 1964. They
filmed the second pilot in the summer of 1965.

I am not sure, but I think that Takei might have signed onto the
original contract prior to the first pilot, but they were going
to introduce his character later. (Similar to how they introduced
Doctor McCoy in the series that was picked up). They had enough
trouble with gender politics in the initial pilot that they
dropped the interracial nature of the crew in the first pilot. That
would be very close to that 1963 date.

Sulu predates everyone in the series except Spock and Kirk and
was introduced in the same ep as Kirk.

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