George Takei’s Star Trek Legacy Was Almost Ruined By A John Wayne Movie

Before landing, actor George Taki, actor George Taki, actor George Taki, fell to a few jobs that led to the provision of English language sounds for Japanese films such as “Rodan” and “Ghadzella” again. His first role was in the 1958 movie “Ice Palace” for the 1958 Flickne Flick “Ice Palace” with Richard Burton. For the early 1960s, he continued to play small roles in producing large Hollywood films, although his career began to flourish on TV screens, with Takei Landing guests in some of the most important shows today. In fact, it ended up with episodes of “Perry Masson”, “Al -Shafak Zone”, “My Three Sons”, “The Days of the Valley of Death”, and “I Spy”.

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“Star Trek” was a three -year support game for Takei, and it was not initially a very successful offer, as he finished in 1969. After that, Takei returned to another shot in shows such as “flirting with Eddie’s father” and “Ironside”. Thanks to the restarts, “Star Trek” continued to consciously pop it in the 1970s, and Solo quickly appeared as the most famous role. By the middle of the contract, the “Star Trek” agreements began to become a pop phenomenon, with Takei to talk about SULU. He continued to participate in the franchise in the contracts that followed, until Solo played in an episode of “Star Trek: the lower floors”.

But before all, Takei was also closely associated with John Wayne Military Reiller, which he received badly and who struck theaters in the middle of his work on “Star Trek”. The 1968 “Green Berets” war appeared, which was directed by John Wayne and Roy Kelog and supported by the United States government, Takei as a Vietnamese investigator named Captain Nghiem. “The Green Berets” was a high -level production, as it cost $ 7 million at the time and made it “the old men still get it” from Wayne. It was also easy to control the attempt to apply Rah-Rah in the Second World War War in the 1940s on the depression of the Vietnam War. This, in turn, almost caused a big problem for Vikiko and its legacy.

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I remember that “Star Trek” requires a campaign to write messages just to stay on the air for a third season. She had emotional followers of science lovers and mortaries from the beginning, but the classifications remained moderate to low. As a result, he saw much larger people “green hats” when she first came out of “Star Trek”, making it disturbed Takei the most obvious at that point. In fact, Taki had to stay away from several episodes of “Star Trek” so that he could shoot “The Green Berets”.

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However, I also remember that “The Green Berets” got terrible reviews and still, to this day, is considered one of the worst films Win (at least according to users on Letterboxd). Roger Ebert went further to give Zero Stars.

Takei once spoke with The Valley Tribune (as it was copied by Metv), and he expressed a note of the contradiction towards his involvement in John Wayne, mostly because he was preventing him from his usual job on “Star Trek”. As it put it:

“I have mixed feelings about” green hats “. We had a break during” Star Trek “, and this show came, so I thought” wonderful! […] It was fine until we got some bad weather, then he was late. I think it was like a two -month schedule, and it became similar to three and a half months. It was very important that this image was on the specified date, so that I could return to Hollywood before the start of the “Star Trek” new season. But because of the delay, I missed the entire second season of “Star Trek”. So I have remorse for it. “

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Takei said elsewhere that a lot of “The Green Berets” was improvised due to the delay of the shooting, but also that Wayne was friendly enough to him. All the same, it’s a good thing “The Green Berets” quickly faded from public awareness, providing room for the reputation of Takei “Star Trek” for growth. It was definitely the best scenario for the actor.