{"id":13574,"date":"2011-12-12T11:48:50","date_gmt":"2011-12-12T19:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=13574"},"modified":"2011-12-12T11:48:50","modified_gmt":"2011-12-12T19:48:50","slug":"takei-trek-and-war-fans-unite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2011\/12\/takei-trek-and-war-fans-unite\/","title":{"rendered":"Takei: Trek And War Fans, Unite!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <strong>George Takei<\/strong>, <em>Star Trek<\/em> and <em>Star Wars<\/em> fans shouldn&#8217;t be fighting each other, but instead should be uniting against another fandom.<\/p>\n<p>After the recent online exchange between<em> Star Trek<\/em>&#8216;s <strong>William Shatner<\/strong> and <em>Star Wars<\/em>&#8216; <strong>Carrie Fisher<\/strong>, Takei decided to jump in with his own opinion on the fandom war, with a three minute video,\u00a0<em>George Takei is the Broker of Star Peace<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Takei080210.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-13576\" title=\"Takei080210\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Takei080210.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"118\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>&#8220;No More Hope,&#8221; begins the video. &#8220;William Shatner went where no man had gone before, risking a civil war that pitted two fan worlds against each other.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The video shows what happened when Shatner called <em>Star Wars<\/em> &#8220;derivative of <em>Star Trek.<\/em>&#8221; Fisher fired back, claiming that <em>Star Trek<\/em> wasn&#8217;t even in &#8220;the same league&#8221; as <em>Star Wars<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Fellow Star folks,&#8221; said Takei. &#8220;Cool it down! And shut your big wormholes. Each is wonderful in its own special way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Takei goes on to encourage both sides to aim at a more worthy target, <em>Twilight<\/em>. &#8220;It is really, really bad,&#8221; said Takei. &#8220;Gone is any sense of heroism, camaraderie or epic battles. In its place, we have vampires that sparkle, and moan and go to high school&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But sci-fi fans, be warned. There are no great stories, characters, or profound life lessons to be had in <em>Twilight<\/em>. Noooo&#8230;in <em>Twilight<\/em>, the only message that rings through loud and clear, is &#8216;does my boyfriend like me?&#8217; Let us band together to combat this mutual threat.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While <em>TrekToday<\/em> certainly doesn&#8217;t encourage fandom wars, it&#8217;s hard to approve of a series where vampires, instead of bursting into flames when exposed to the sun as they&#8217;re supposed to do, sparkle instead. DIAMONDS sparkle. Vampires blaze.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"George Takei is the Broker of Star Peace\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mvTCr5Z-0lA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to George Takei, Star Trek and Star Wars fans shouldn&#8217;t be fighting each other,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413,2421],"tags":[3875,2414,2415],"class_list":["post-13574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","category-star-trek-tos","tag-fisher","tag-shatner","tag-takei"],"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":"7","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13574","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=13574"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13577,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13574\/revisions\/13577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}