{"id":43938,"date":"2016-07-13T10:24:36","date_gmt":"2016-07-13T17:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=43938"},"modified":"2016-07-13T10:24:36","modified_gmt":"2016-07-13T17:24:36","slug":"trek-family-support-for-gay-character","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2016\/07\/trek-family-support-for-gay-character\/","title":{"rendered":"Trek Family Support For Gay Character"},"content":{"rendered":"

Although George Takei<\/strong> may not have been thrilled at the news that the character originally portrayed by him would be gay in Star Trek Beyond<\/em>, others in the Trek family are just fine with that, including Gene Roddenberry<\/strong>‘s son Rod Roddenberry<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

According to Rod, his father would have been totally supportive. “I think he would be one hundred percent in favor of a gay character in Star Trek<\/em>,” he said. “There’s so much going on in the world today. I think he would love any sort of social issue being brought into Star Trek.<\/em>”<\/p>\n

But he understands Takei’s position on the issue. “In a way, it’s George’s character,” he said. “I can understand why he feels strongly about it. I don’t see why everyone is bickering about it. It’s about fucking time. Let’s just do it.”<\/p>\n

Other cast members chimed in on the matter. “It is definitely high time for an LGBT character to be included in the Star Trek<\/em> universe,” said Zachary Quinto<\/strong>. “We’ve been really excited by the response, particularly from young people, who have been inspired and motivated by this turn toward progress.”<\/p>\n

“[I’m] a little stunned there’s been so much attention given to it,” said Chris Pine<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Although George Takei may not have been thrilled at the news that the character originally…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43939,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413],"tags":[2419,2475,2561,2511,2415],"class_list":["post-43938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cast-crew","tag-pine","tag-quinto","tag-rod-roddenberry","tag-sulu","tag-takei"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/RoddenberrySulu071316.png",580,225,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/RoddenberrySulu071316-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/RoddenberrySulu071316.png",580,225,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/RoddenberrySulu071316.png",580,225,false],"large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/RoddenberrySulu071316.png",580,225,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/RoddenberrySulu071316.png",580,225,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/RoddenberrySulu071316.png",580,225,false],"newsphere-slider-full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/RoddenberrySulu071316.png",580,225,false],"newsphere-featured":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/RoddenberrySulu071316.png",580,225,false],"newsphere-medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/RoddenberrySulu071316.png",580,225,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"T'Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"Cast & Crew<\/a>","tag_info":"Cast & Crew","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43938","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=43938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43940,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43938\/revisions\/43940"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}