George Takei takes aim at his fellow Star Trek alum William Shatner To take a historic space trip at the age of 90 – to undo the decades-long feud that began on the set of a 1960s sci-fi show.
When asked about his thoughts on William Shatner’s journey to 62 miles above Earth’s surface on Wednesday, Takei said: ‘He is boldly going where others have gone before,’ of Shatner as Captain Kirk. making fun of popular phrases
“He’s a guinea pig, 90 years old and it’s important to find out what happens,” Takei added during the Broadway opening of Thoughts of a Colored Man on Wednesday night, according to page six.
‘So a 90 year old man is going to show a lot on wear and tear on the human body, so he would be a good specimen to study. Although he is not the fittest specimen at the age of 90, he would be a specimen that is unfit!’
Shatner and newly minted astronauts Chris Boshuizen, Glenn de Vries and Audrey Powers spent three minutes in weightlessness on Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket earlier that day.
George Takei, 84, criticized his former co-star William Shatner as an ‘unsuitable specimen’
Shatner (second from left) on Wednesday became the oldest person in space after three minutes of weightlessness on a Blue Origin rocket.
Eight years after the previous record was set by 82-year-old Wally Funk on a similar jaundice aboard the Jeff Bezos-owned spacecraft in July, Shatner became the oldest person in space.
The 84-year-old techie has hit out at Shatner before.
Their feud apparently began during the filming of the 79-episode show, with Takei accusing Shatner of ignoring him on set.
According to Page Six, he also accused him of changing the script of the 1989 film Star Trek V so that Takei’s character, Hikaru Sulu, would not command the spacecraft.
The pair have co-starred in the iconic TV show as well as six theatrical releases, culminating in 1991 with Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.
Shatner (center) and Takei (right) appeared in 79 Star Trek episodes and six movies together
In an interview on David Tennant’s Celebrity podcast last year, Takei made the Star Trek set feel like “William Shatner vs. the rest of the world.”
He said Shatner was insecure because co-star Leonard Nimoy, who played Spock, received more fan letters from him.
Shatner replied on Twitter, saying, ‘George needs a new hobby. Now he’s making things up. We never saw fan letters. That’s why so many secretaries have signed the photo.
‘We barely saw George. That was at least once a week – how would he know anything? The only person to be jealous is George.’
In 2008, after being dropped from Takei’s wedding guest list, Shatner examined Takei’s mental health.
Shatner shed tears on the ground to Bezos, saying, ‘I’m very emotional about what just happened. “I hope I never recover from this,” he said.
“Poor man,” Shatner said in a YouTube interview posted to his official page.
‘There is such a disease out there. It is so clear that there is a psychosis. I don’t know what his original point about me was. I don’t know.’
Shatner felt a different kind of emotion Wednesday when he burst into tears after landing back on Earth.
‘I am very emotional about what just happened. I hope I never recover from this,’ he told Amazon founder Bezos, who owns Blue Origin.
‘It is much bigger than me and life, and it has nothing to do with the little green hand or the little blue sphere.’
He said, ‘Everyone in the world needs to do this. ‘To see the blue whip and now you’re staring into the blackness, that’s it.
The blue cover, this sheath, this blanket, this blue comforter that surrounds us, we say, “Oh, that blue sky.” And then suddenly you kill everything, and you are seeing blackness, in black ugliness.’
‘As you look down, there’s your blue down there and there’s black. Earth is mother and rest is and is – what is death? I don’t know Is death like this?’
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