science-officer-spock:George Hosato Takei (born April 20, 1937) I spent my boyhood behind the barbed
science-officer-spock:George Hosato Takei (born April 20, 1937) I spent my boyhood behind the barbed wire fences of American internment camps and when we came out of camp, that’s when I first realized that being in camp, that being Japanese-American, was something shameful. Star Trek is a show that had a vision about a future that was positive. The starship Enterprise was a metaphor starship Earth, and the vision was that the strength of this starship lay in its diversity -- source link