Takei says it’s ‘really unfortunate’ that Sulu is gay since he wasn’t gay in Roddenberry’s original conception of the character. Ignoring climate change in weather reporting is anti-scientific by omission, and it’s irresponsible. Every meteorologist who is in the business of communicating weather information has an obligation to explain why the weather does what it does, and climate change is playing an ever-increasing role in this story. Of course he wasn’t anything very much, in Roddenberry’s original conception of the character, which is part of the reason why Pegg, Lin and Jung felt able to out him in ‘Star Trek Beyond. “The idea that some of the Enterprise crew would be LGBT is so uncontentious, so obvious,” Roberts said, “that I have some sympathy with Simon Pegg’s bafflement at the fuss — he ‘respectfully disagrees’ with George Takei’s disapproval.

Source: Mid-Day July 13, 2016 19:03 UTC