{"id":31337,"date":"2013-12-12T13:03:24","date_gmt":"2013-12-12T21:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=31337"},"modified":"2013-12-12T13:03:24","modified_gmt":"2013-12-12T21:03:24","slug":"takei-twits-shatner-on-conan-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2013\/12\/takei-twits-shatner-on-conan-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Takei Twits Shatner On Conan Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-31340\" alt=\"TakeiConan121213\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/TakeiConan121213.gif\" width=\"580\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Another<em> Star Trek<\/em> actor appeared on last night&#8217;s Conan show; <strong>George Take<\/strong>i.<\/p>\n<p>Takei spoke about the new <em>Star Trek<\/em> reboot, explaining what if any roles were appropriate for the original series actors. He then gave Conan a demonstration of the exercise routine he does daily to keep in shape.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->In explaining that the original series actors for the most part are a bit past it to be appearing in an action movie, Takei took a swipe at <strong>William Shatner<\/strong>. &#8220;We were no longer relevant to the new audience,&#8221; he explained. &#8220;Can you imagine Bill Shatner running down those corridors like <strong>Chris Pine<\/strong> did? That&#8217;s not a pretty sight!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You&#8217;re never afraid to go after old Bill Shatner,&#8221; said Conan, laughing.<\/p>\n<p>Conan wanted to know why the seventy-six-year old Takei was still in such good shape and Takei explained that he did daily sit-ups and push-ups. When asked, he proceeded to give an on-air demonstration of his push-up technique.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/teamcoco.com\/embed\/v\/74715\" height=\"415\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/teamcoco.com\/embed\/v\/74716\" height=\"415\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another Star Trek actor appeared on last night&#8217;s Conan show; George Takei. Takei spoke about&#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],"tags":[3101,2415],"class_list":["post-31337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","tag-conan","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>","tag_info":"Cast &amp; Crew","comment_count":"22","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31337","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=31337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31343,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31337\/revisions\/31343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}