George Takei vows never to discuss Star Trek co-star William Shatner again

George Takei has vowed never to speak about former Star Trek co-star William Shatner again as he tried to end their longstanding feud.

During an appearance on The Graham Norton Show on Friday, the 85-year-old actor told the host “this is the last time I talk about him” and commented that questions about his fights are “boring”.

In the interview, George also called the 91-year-old William an “old curmudgeon”, telling how William used their fight as publicity.

While discussing his musical loyalty, which draws on his childhood experience and family history, Graham, 59, asked George about his feud with William.

Clearly fed up with the narrative, he said: ‘You’re the last chat show host who’s allowed to ask that question, as it’s gotten so boring talking about it.

‘When Bill has a book to sell, he needs publicity and accuses us of using it. My theme is more substantial and important.

George then added one last taunt before attempting to end the ongoing tensions once and for all.

And he added: ‘He’s an old curmudgeon and I’m not going to talk about him anymore. I swear this is the last time I talk about him.

And while George apparently wanted to end their fight on Friday, just a few days earlier he couldn’t help but take a jab at William when he once again called him “an old curmudgeon” in a new interview.

The TV personality said The Guardian on Monday that he did not want to continue interacting with Shatner after actor Captain Kirk said his former Star Trek co-stars criticized him in a publicity interview in a scathing interview earlier this month.

“I know you came to London to promote your book and said you wanted publicity using your name,” said Takei, who played Lt. Hikaru Sulu on Star Trek. So I decided I don’t need his name to get publicity.

Takei, who reprized the role of Sulu in several films and shows in the Star Trek franchise, told the outlet that he had a “much more substantial theme” for which he had sought publicity.

‘I’m not going to refer to Bill in this interview at all…although I just did. He’s just an old curmudgeon and I’m going to leave it up to him. I’m not going to play his game.

When asked if Shatner was a “curmudgeon” in his youth, Takei said that Shatner “was selfish,” “enjoyed being the center of attention,” and “wanted everyone to bow down to him.”

Shatner, earlier this month made headlines when he said The times he feels his former co-stars on the 1960s sci-fi series criticized him in order to make headlines for themselves.

‘Sixty years after some incident, they are still on that path. Don’t you think that’s a bit weird? It’s like a disease,” said Shatner, who played Captain James T. Kirk on the hit series and in seven movies. “I started to understand that they were doing it for publicity.”

Even as Shatner recently went into space thanks to billionaire Jeff Bezos, Takei said he was being sent as a “guinea pig” to assess the impact of space on an “unfit” specimen.

‘Jorge [Takei] it has never stopped blackening my name,’ he said. ‘These people are bitter and bitter. I have run out of patience with them. Why give credit to people consumed by envy and hate?

In his memoir Boldly Go: Reflections on a Life of Awe and Wonder, Shatner said he was heartbroken when the late co-star Nichelle Nichols, who played Lt. Uhura, accused him of being “cold and arrogant.”

He wrote: “I was horrified to find out about this, ashamed that I didn’t realize it.”

Shatner was also close friends with Leonard Nimoy, who played Spock, however their relationship was strained before his death in 2015, for reasons unknown to the Kirk actor.

According to giant geek robot, Friction started between the two when William made a Star Trek documentary in 2011 and interviewed many actors who were part of the franchise, but did not include Nimoy.

It comes after William said He said that seeing Earth from space aboard Jeff Bezo’s Blue Origin rocket was a deeply painful experience, but one that inspired him to appreciate the beauty of our planet.

In an excerpt from his memoirs, he writes that he was struck by one of the “strongest feelings of pain” he had ever experienced.

He went on to say that instead of being filled with awe, as he had expected, the sight of Earth’s warm blue glow surrounded by the cold black of space left him feeling like he was at “a funeral.”

The excerpt was published by Variety journalist Marianne Williamson and offered a deeper insight into Shatner’s reaction to his spaceflight with Blue Origin than he had previously revealed.

The revelations come a year after Shatner was seen to be visibly shaken immediately after exiting the Blue Origin capsule in October 2021, when he broke down in tears, telling Bezos: “Everyone in the world needs to do this.” .

William wrote that he never realized how precious life on Earth was until he left it behind.

“I discovered that beauty is not out there, it’s down here, with all of us,” she said. “Leaving that behind made my connection to our little planet even deeper,” she wrote in his memoir.

He said that seeing the Earth so fragile filled him with sadness at the thought of how man is so frivolous about its destruction.