{"id":1036,"date":"2008-06-27T11:32:06","date_gmt":"2008-06-27T17:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamingwithchildren.com\/?p=1036"},"modified":"2008-06-27T11:32:06","modified_gmt":"2008-06-27T17:32:06","slug":"live-long-prosper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/27\/live-long-prosper\/","title":{"rendered":"Live Long & Prosper"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Off topic: I’d like to congratulate George Takai and all of the California citizens taking advantage of this brief window of gay marriage acceptance in the Golden State. This issue is a family issue with me (my brother is gay) but also, for me, a human rights issue, and I’ve\u00a0wanted to write about this a little bit for years now. Why would I chose George Takai as an opportunity?<\/p>\n

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It’s not because my brother is Korean – though it’s easy to substitute his smiling face for Takai’s in this photograph.<\/p>\n

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I like Star Trek, but it’s more than that. I really like Sulu. I wrote a letter I wrote to Paramount before Star Trek: Deep Space Nine was released suggesting they follow up Next Generation with a series from the movie era featuring Captain Sulu and the USS Excalibur (I still think that would have been BRILLIANT and a much easier way to get old school alumni onto the TV show without using transporter buffer accidents or DeForest in horrid makeup). I sent that letter again before Voyager was announced. (Oh yes, I was a geek who felt he ought to be listened to then too.)\u00a0 (And yes, I know there’s at least one book and an audio play about this very idea.)<\/p>\n

Takai has a marvelously rich voice, which is why I chose to listen rather than read his late 90’s Star Trek memories book.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Oh and the State of California locked him and his family into internment camps during World War II.\u00a0 Yeah, really.<\/p>\n

I was happy for him when he came out. Didn’t matter to me either way but seeing him revel in his newfound freedom was fun. He makes fun of himself well – appearing on Howard Stern and stuff like Shatner’s Comedy Central Roast.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And now he gets to marry the guy he’s been with for over 20 years.\u00a0 Live long and prosper indeed!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Off topic: I’d like to congratulate George Takai and all of the California citizens taking advantage of this brief window of gay marriage acceptance in the Golden State. This issue is a family issue with me (my brother is gay) but also, for me, a human rights issue, and I’ve\u00a0wanted to write about this a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}