Post your questions for George Takei

We’re taking questions for George Takei ahead of his appearance in Beam Me Up, Sulu, a documentary about a long-lost 1985 Star Trek fan film that opens up conversation about representation in Hollywood, the evolution of fandom and science fiction’s role in social progress.

Please post your questions by 6pm on Thursday 12 February — via subspace radio, flip‑phone communicator, patching through to Lieutenant Uhura, or preferably in the comments below — and we’ll print his answers in Film&Music. Born Hosato Takei in Los Angeles and renamed George after King George VI’s coronation, he and his family were forced to live in US Japanese concentration camps during the second world war.

He later studied architecture and theatre, including time at the Shakespeare Institute at Stratford‑upon‑Avon. Takei’s early acting work included English dubbing for 1950s Japanese monster films such as Rodan and Godzilla Raids Again, and small roles in war films including Never So Few and Hell to Eternity.

United States, Los Angeles

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