October 12, 2025 - New York
The 68th New York Emmy Awards were held at the Marriott Marquis in Times Square. MyLITV’s Waldo Cabrera secured his third Emmy Award for a feature interview with Star Trek’s George Takei at the Cinema Arts Centre. George Takei is best known as “Mr. Sulu” in the legendary Star Trek series. But Mr. Takei is also a human rights activist who, as a child, was held in a U.S. internment camp during World War II.
Mr. Takei took part in the Cinema Arts Centre celebrity interview series, curated by Dr. Jud Newborn who also shared in the Emmy Award win. At this special event the audience is treated to a film featuring the actor, a Q&A session and a meet and greet at the end of the evening.
Over 185,000 Japanese-Americans living in he west coast were ordered into concentration camps. Even though he was only 6 years old at the time it happened, the 87-year old Star Trek star retells the events as if it happened yesterday.
The biggest surprise is that Mr. Takei wrote a children’s book about this dark moment in US history. His hope is two-fold: “little Johnny” and the adult reading he story to him get to learn about these difficult events.
In his closing remarks to the sold-out crowd, Mr. Takei pointed out that he is concerned about the current state of race relations. He sees the same racist jargon against immigrants in 2024 that he did against Japanese-Americans during World War II.
