WELCOME BACK!
FOR THOSE OF YOU JUST JOINING THE SHOW, JESSICA ALBA DID
SOMETHING UNPRECEDENTED TO MY HAIR, AND WE'RE GOING TO LEAVE
IT THIS WAY FOR THE REST OF THE SHOW.
( LAUGHTER ) MY NEXT GUEST TONIGHT IS A STAR
OF STAGE AND SCREEN, A HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST AND A
SOCIAL MEDIA SUPERSTAR.
BUT HE'LL ALWAYS BE SULU TO ME.
PLEASE WELCOME GEORGE TAKEI.
( BAND PLAYING ) ( CHEERS AND APPLAUSE )
COME ON OUT!
>> FANTASTIC AUDIENCE.
>> Stephen: AMAZING.
WELCOME BACK TO BROADWAY.
>> ALLEGIANCE WAS MY DEBUT.
>> Stephen: YOU'VE DONE BROADWAY, STAR TREK.
BEFORE WE GET TO ANYTHING ELSE, WHO HAS THE NERDIER FANS,
BROADWAY OR STAR TREK IS THIS.
>> I WOULD SAY THEY'RE BOTH NERDY IN DIFFERENT WAYS.
SCI-FI FANS ARE NERDY TECHIES, AND BROADWAY FANS ARE
STAR-ORIENTED, FROM GOING WAY BACK, TO TODAY.
THE BROADWAY FANS ARE ACTOR-ORIENTED.
SCI-FI FANS ARE TECHY ORIENTED.
>> Stephen: OKAY.
THEY WANT TO SEE THE SPECIAL EFFECTS.
>> THAT'S RIGHT.
>> Stephen: OKAY.
OME OF THE ACTORS ARE SPECIAL EFFECTS, TOO.
>> Stephen: WHILE I ENJOY BROADWAY, I HAVE TO SAY THAT I
AM SUCH A STAR TREK FAN, THAT TO BE HERE,ETH SUCH A PLEASURE AND
HONOR FOR ME TO BE HERE WITH YOU, WHOSE WORK I HAVE ENJOYED
SINCE I WAS KNEE HIGH TO A GRASSHOPPER, TO TALK ABOUT THE
50th ANNIVERSARY OF STAR TREK, ONE OF THE GREATEST SHOWS EVER
ON TELEVISION.
A GROUNDBREAKING SHOW.
SUCH A PLEASURE TO HAVE YOU HERE ( CHEERS AND APPLAUSE )
>> FOR A GUY PUSHING 80, IT'S WONDERFUL TO BE ABLE TO SAY,
TODAY WE'RE 50!
( CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ) >> Stephen: SO WHAT WAS IT
LIKE?
IT WAS, LIKE, DAY ONE ON THE SET WITH GENE ROANBURY, THE CREATOR,
HOW WAS THE SHOW DESCRIBED TO YOU?
>> I CAN'T FORGET THAT DAY.
IT WAS VERY SPECIAL.
WE ALL MET FOR A COLD READ IN A CONFERENCE ROOM, AND GENE
RODENBURY AND THE EXECUTIVE HERB SOLO WERE ALL SEATED UP FRONT.
WE WERE ALL INTRODUCED AND GENE EXPLAINED TO US WHAT STAR TREK
WAS ALL ABOUT.
HE SAID THE STARSHIP ENTERPRISE WAS A METAPHOR FOR STARSHIP
EARTH, AND THE STRENGTH OF THIS STARSHIP LAY IN ITS DIVERSITY
COMING TOGETHER.
THE ACRONYM WAS INFINITE DIVERSITY.
WE WERE REPRESENTING DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE PLANET, SEEING THE
COMMON CHALLENGE WE HAVE, CONFIDENT OF OUR PROBLEM-SOLVING
CAPABILITIES, OUR GENIUS FOR INVENTION, INNOVATION, WE WERE
GOING TO BOLDLY GO WHERE NO ONE HAD GONE BEFORE.
( CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ) >> Stephen: SO IF THE
DIFFERENT CHARACTERS, THE CAST AND THE GUESTS EVERY WEEK
REPRESENTED THE DIVERSITY OF THE EARTH AND HOW THEY CAN SOLVE
PROBLEMS TOGETHER, WHAT DIVERSE PART OF EARTH'S POPULATION DID
THE SEXY, GREEN-SKINNED ALIEN BABES IN THE BIKINIS REPRESENT?
>> THEY WERE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE EARTHLINGS, ALTHOUGH THEY HAD
TWO LEGS, TWO ARMS, TWO BREASTS AND, YOU KNOW, THEIR BODIES ARE
GREEN, AND, SO, THEREFORE, THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO BE ALIENS.
BUT WE ALSO HAD, AS A MEMBER OF THE STAR FLEET TEAM, A PERSON
THAT WAS HALF ALIEN, SPOCK.
HE HAD GREEN BLOOD, POINTY EARS -- OH, SPOCK FANS HERE.
>> Stephen: OF COURSE, RIGHT.
HIS MOTHER WAS AN EARTH WOMAN AND HIS FATHER WAS A VULCAN.
>> Stephen: SO IT WAS AN INTERRACIAL MARRIAGE.
>> INTERGALACTIC, INTERGLOBAL.
>> Stephen: BUT STILL RACY FOR THE 1960s.
>> IT WAS.
BUT VOL CANS MATE EVERY SEVEN YEARS.
SO THEY WEREN'T VERY SEXY FOR SIX AND A HALF YEARS AND THEN
THEY START RAGING.
>> THEY GO INTO HEAT.
DO.
>> Stephen: IT'S TRUE.
AMOC TIME!
YOU HAVE TO GO SEE TAPAU.
>> OH, YOU KNOW YOUR STUFF.
>> Stephen: AT SOME POINT I WOULD LOVE THE STUDIO TO COME
UNDER ATTACK SO WE CAN SHAKE BACK AND FORTH AND --
>> OH, LIKE WE DID ON THE ENTERPRISE.
>> Stephen: EXACTLY.
WHICH WAY WOULD YOU GO FIRST, ALWAYS LEFT OR RIGHT FIRST?
>> WELL, WE HAD A DIRECTOR OUT THERE, AND HE WOULD SAY LEFT,
AND WE WOULD GO LIKE THIS.
YOUR RIGHT.
>> Stephen: OKAY, LEFT.
AND HE WOULD SAY RIGHT, AND IN UNISON, WE WOULD GO LIKE
THIS.
>> Stephen: YOU DIRECT US.
JIM, YOU PUT US ON A CAMERA.
I'LL CRY RED ALERT AND YOU TELL US WHICH WAY TO GO AND YOU SHAKE
THE CAMERA, OKAY, JOHN?
OKAY.
WELL, GEORGE, LET ME ASK YOU THIS -- WHAT!
RED ALERT!
(SIREN) >> LEFT, RIGHT!
!
(SIREN) ( CHEERS AND APPLAUSE )
>> WE HAVE A GREAT AUDIENCE.
>> Stephen: I CAN'T WAIT TO GO BACK IN TIME AND TELL MY
CHILDHOOD SELF I GOT TO DO THAT WITH YOU.
( LAUGHTER ) GEORGE TAKEI, THANK YOU SO MUCH
FOR BEING HERE.
>> GREAT TO BE HERE.
>> Stephen: THANK YOU FOR YOUR WHOLE CAREER AND STAR TREK!
GEORGE TAKEI, EVERYBODY!
WE'LL BE RIGHT BACK!
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