NHPR: Star Trek’s George Takei shares his journey ‘From Internment to Stardom’
Actor, writer and activist George Takei is known for his role as Hikaru Sulu in the original Star Trek series, and has also spoken openly about his experience in an internment camp as a Japanese American during World War II.
He was recently in New Hampshire as a visiting fellow at Dartmouth College, where he gave a talk called "From Internment to Stardom."
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George Takei is a social justice activist, social media superstar, Grammy-nominated recording artist, New York Times bestselling author, and pioneering actor. He has appeared in more than 40 feature films and hundreds of television roles, most famously as Hikaru Sulu in Star Trek.