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Aug 29 - Retro Review: Hero Worship
A young boy who is the sole survivor of a disaster that killed his parents decides to emulate Data.

Aug 21 - Retro Review: New Ground
Worf's human mother brings his son Alexander on board, insisting that she can no longer raise the boy.

Aug 14 - Retro Review: A Matter of Time
When a visitor from a future era arrives on the ship, Picard asks for assistance about how to save a dying planet.

July 31 - Retro Review: Unification, Part Two
Picard learns the reason for Spock's visit to Romulus: an attempted reunification of the Vulcan and Romulan races.

July 17 - Retro Review: Unification, Part One
Shocked to learn that Spock may have defected to the Romulans, Picard and Data cross the Neutral Zone in to find him.

July 10 - Retro Review: The Game
When an interactive game becomes addictive to the crew, Wesley Crusher and his new girlfriend must save the day.

June 20 - Retro Review: Disaster
Troi must take command of the ship while Picard struggles to work with three children and Worf delivers Keiko's baby.

June 6 - Retro Review: Silicon Avatar
A scientist pursuing the Crystalline Entity discovers that Data's brain holds her son's memories.

May 30 - Retro Review: Ensign Ro
A court-martialed Starfleet officer from occupied Bajor is sent to help locate a terrorist leader.

May 23 - Retro Review: Darmok
Picard is exiled with the leader of an alien race who speaks in incomprehensible metaphors.

May 15 - Retro Review: Redemption, Part Two
Picard discovers that Tasha Yar's Romulan daughter is influencing the Klingon civil war.

May 9 - Retro Review: Redemption, Part One
When Picard is asked as Arbiter of Succession to oversee Gowron's installation, Worf resigns from Starfleet to fight against the Duras family.

May 2 - Retro Review: In Theory
Data creates a romantic subroutine to experiment with love.

Apr 24 - Retro Review: The Mind's Eye
LaForge is kidnapped and altered by Romulans to take part in an assassination plot against a Klingon governor.

 
By Michelle
December 11, 2005 - 12:46 AM

George Takei and his longtime love Brad Altman talked about coming out to the world as gay men and their desire to get married in California, where they live.

Perhaps the greatest revelation has been the fact that Altman - who is Takei's business manager as well as his partner - has never been a Trekkie. "I wasn't a 'Star Trek' fan; I'm still not a 'Star Trek' fan," Altman told ETonline's Jann Carl. "This relationship has survived that! He likes that about me."

Takei said that coming out wasn't really a scary thing - and he knows what "scary" is, after having been taken with his family at gunpoint from their home to be escorted to an internment camp during World War II. "I was four years old at the time," Takei explained. "Soldiers with bayonet guns came to our home to order us out...we were in an American internment camp with no due process, because we happened to look like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor."

Takei said that even before his adolescence he knew that he was more interested in boys than girls, but as a teen, he hid his sexual orientation: "At that time, the issue of homosexuality was peripheral - and in denial - and you kept quiet." Now that "the world has changed", he is lobbying for the legalization of same sex marriage in his home state. "We could [get married] in Canada, we could do it in Massachusetts, but this is California...we want it to happen where our life is," he insisted.

The original aritcle is at ETonline.

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