{"id":12004,"date":"2011-05-13T12:06:38","date_gmt":"2011-05-13T19:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=12004"},"modified":"2011-05-13T12:06:38","modified_gmt":"2011-05-13T19:06:38","slug":"takei-change-the-name-abrams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2011\/05\/takei-change-the-name-abrams\/","title":{"rendered":"Takei: Change The Name, Abrams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although <strong>George Takei<\/strong> is a fan of <strong>J.J. Abrams<\/strong>&#8216; <em>Star Trek<\/em>, he would prefer that the next movie in the series <em>not<\/em> be called <em>Star Trek<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>According to Takei, there was nothing wrong with the movie, including <strong>John Cho<\/strong>&#8216;s portrayal of Sulu. &#8220;[Cho] did a terrific job,&#8221; said Takei. &#8220;J.J. Abrams&#8217; <em>Star Trek<\/em> was a terrific movie.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Takei080210.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-12005\" title=\"Takei080210\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Takei080210.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"118\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>But it wasn&#8217;t Takei&#8217;s <em>Star Trek<\/em> and he feels that there should be a line drawn separating the two different Treks. &#8220;I think there should be a more distinguishing label to it than<em> Star Trek<\/em>,&#8221; he explained. &#8220;I hope the next one will have some sort of a number or label. I take umbrage with it being called <em>Star Trek<\/em>. We were <em>Star Trek<\/em>. This <em>Star Trek<\/em> is a progeny of our <em>Star Trek<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Proud of his association with <em>Star Trek<\/em>, Takei never felt that <em>Star Trek<\/em> was a burden which hindered his later career. &#8220;I prefer to see it as a great asset than can be parlayed,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I&#8217;ve done plays totally unrelated to<em> Star Trek<\/em> up and down Great Britain. I&#8217;ve played Japanese soldiers, Chinese emperors, a wizard. But when I come out of the stage door, there are all these <em>Star Trek<\/em> fans with their books, their action figures &#8211; all that memorabilia. My fans are very loyal. It&#8217;s been a great professional asset, as well as a source of personal pride.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although George Takei is a fan of J.J. Abrams&#8216; Star Trek, he would prefer that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413,2421],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","category-star-trek-tos"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/star-trek-tos\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Star Trek: TOS<\/a>","tag_info":"Star Trek: TOS","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12004"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12007,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12004\/revisions\/12007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}