we are talking to george takei, and i want to get into "star trek" a bit.ean rotenbury, the producer - i believe you said he wanted a multicultural cast. how did it happen, and how did you get there? >> gene wanted to use "star trek" as a metaphor about so many things about our times then and today. she said the starship "enterprise" was a metaphor for starship earth, and it was about coming together, working as a team. we were all contributing our unique vantage point or history or talent to the workings of that team to meet the common college that we have. so he - it was very intentional to cast the way he did. the captain was a north american, played by a canadian. the european representation was by scotty, scotland, played by an irish canadian - another canned aidan, and -- canadian, who efl were representing africa, and i represented asia, and mccoy represented the south of the u.s. >> how did you get the job? >> my agent called. rather in the common normal way in hollywood. i went to a meeting with a man named gene rottenbury - i didn't know him from

that's one reason maybe why people haven't heard much about this star trek convention. they didn't need to advertise because it sold out. you've got maybe 100 people here already. william shattner will be here this weekend. jeremy ryan will be doing autographs. william shattner is charging $90 for a photo op and $90 for an autograph. i don't know how much this guy charges for an autograph. come over here. scottie, how are you? been a while. how are you doing? how far did you have to travel to get here? >> 3,000. >> 3,000 miles? >> close to that. >> from vermont. >> from vermont. i had some real ones in my lab. >> you do? >> yeah. >> what do you want to do when you're here this weekend? what's your main goal? >> my main goal is to talk to the people. we're making a fan film. we're in post production right now. of course, i play the old scottie talking to the young cadets and telling them a story about what happened in the past. >> well, live long and prosper. nice seeing you, scottie. have fun this weekend. let's see if we can find someone else. this guy over here is a t

. >>> i'm at the star trek convention. it hit town this week. >>> a gorgeous weekend coming our way. details on that and our next best chance of showers coming up in just a few minutes. >>> the fight to keep san francisco city college open is growing tonight. four months ago, the regional commission ruled city college failed to clean up its finances and fix other problems and said the college must close by next summer. a coalition of students and employees is suing the commission. this new lawsuit is the third filed against the commission calling for its decision to be invalidated. 21 schools have agreed to accept city college students if it is not reversed. >>> despite last month's government shutdown, the united states economy added 204,000 jobs. some of the industries with the biggest gains hospitality. the unemployment rate also rose slightly. furloughed federal workers were temporarily counted as unemployed. >>> city police are trying to find out who was behind the account that identified witnesses to violent crimes a

the end came quickly. >> right here. >> jon: star wars trek. >> we have a star wars theme this year. i just said it. kandellorisian. >> jon: you say you like the twist. >> we have a landeau clarisian. >> jon: people do you do a hilarious president anger translator. has the president, do you ever from them, the president go up and go gentlemen, i'm not that angry. is there anything -- >> we met him. we got to meet him which i'm sure you have many times. >> jon: i have met him a couple of times on the show. and he always has never spoke tone me off air. (laughter) >> jon: i will be like thank you mr. president. >> i'm out. >> he stiff arms -- >> so. >> first of all he said i had to this cavalcade that took him around, a bunch of quite guys, he goes very nice meeting you and he comes and gives us bro hugs. he got rit in there and we were like i hope there's not a red dot on my forehead. he's -- >> and then the real awesome he said its anger translator, he goes, you know, i need luther, i need him. first thing out of his mouth. so it literally con termed what we were writing. because we

but we are not missing the "star trek" convention.ter a stressful day. >> i would prefer to reserve judgment on that part of the story, sir. >> what do you do for a living? >> belly dancer. >> the physiological reading on whatever that is. >> what about shatner? is he an idol of yours? >> he's a solid actor. >> do you have a crush on shatner? >> big crush. >> only superman or moses but captain kirk is real. >> your career is identified with "star trek." how do you feel? >> i feel good about it. how do you feel? >> fantastic. >> there you go. we both feel good about my career with "star trek." >> i wanted to do an interview, but you said he was an a-hole. i don't know if that was kind. >> that man was an [ bleep ] to me. >> don't you think everyone is jumping the gun. >> i'm 56 years old. i recognize patronizing when i encounter it. >> the eye patch. what power does it give you? >> i am honestly blind in that eyele. >> okay. do you ever watch bill o'reilly on fox news channel? >> he shoots it straight as he can see. >> anything you wan

abrahams who could created "lost" and directed the last two "star trek" films. he's teaming up with the author of the empire strikes back and return of the jedi. >>> fairfax is disclosing its investment partners. a filing details the pay package for the new blackberry chairman, john chen. he's getting $1 million in base salary, could earn a $2 million performance bonus and is getting 13 million restricted shares. currently worth around $85 million based on blackberry's current share price. blackberry stock, speaking of which in frankfurt, down about 1%. also in the telecom sector, geoff cutmore is speak to go telecom italia's marco patulona

he directed "mission impossible 3", "star trek" and scripted by abrams and lawrence kasdan who scripted "raiders of the lost ark," "return of the jedi." in good company. there you have it, everybody. it is coming on out. >> i hope it is good. >> it's going to be excellent. disney is behind it. >> disney is the parent company so if it is not good we will say it is good any way. >> it will be great. >> jay-z getting him in legal hot water any way. he is being sued. manhattan record label wants to drag him in to court. i guess they haven't done it yet. this is courtesy of "the daily news." they socked the brooklyn rapper and his record company with a copyright infringement lawsuit. saying he copied a '60s jam and he will have to defend himself. the track "run this town" features rihanna and kanye west and samples hook and sling dozens of times allegedly according to the suit.

you're doing the ""star trek"" movies and you're doing "star wars" now.which group of fans seems the most frightening when they approach you? which group of them makes you feel like you're in a room without any doors slowly filling with someone else's needs? >> no, i'm grateful to all -- >> stephen: all of them, really? all of them. >> stephen: really, okay? >> sure. i feel incredibly lucky to be involved with these things and the fans are why we're doing the movie. >> stephen: i understand. is there going to be another "star trek" movie? >> there is going to be a third, and they're working on it now, and there will be someone else directing it. >> stephen: are you looking for a sexy romulan? a dancy lady? the guy with the big butt forehead? >> are you going to help us out. >> stephen: of course, of course, you kidding? >> i'm in, if you're in. >> stephen: i'm in, baby doll. j.j. abrams. the book is "s."

the star trek convention is finally here.yesterday and it continues through the weekend at the hyatt regency in burlingame. william shatner, who played the legendary captain kirk, is set to make an appearance. there will also be appearance by the stars of "deep space 9" and "star trek, the next generation." the convention will feature a special exhibit hall. both star trek collectibles and autographs and photo ops there. lisa argen can't wait to get there. >> we are looking at some nice conditions this afternoon if you like it sunny and mild. 70 oakland, 72 in fremont with 74 in morgan hill. but we could see maybe a sprinkle come monday night into tuesday. that's the holiday. the abc news weather seven-day forecast shows partly cloudy skies, a little cooler tomorrow and we will look for the coolest day monday and tuesday. then we are back to an offshore flow and the ridge rebuilds. our only chance of rain coming in monday night, tuesday. >> lisa, thank you. thanks all of you for joining us on the abc7 saturday morning news. a

so you've got a--you're just obsessed with star trek. >> yes, my husband got me into it.e's been a trekkie ever since birth, and when we started dating, he got me watching it,

former "star trek" next generation actor doing so. the stock has been in warp drive since the beginning nearly doubling in value after starting out at $26 a share raising $1.8 billion. right now twitter's shares are up by 85%. and the company has a market value right now of more than $25 billion. this all happening even though the market is down. a lot of social media stocks have been selling off, facebook, yelp, groupon, linkedin, some of that money going out from them into twitter. after a record close for the dow yesterday it's down more than 100. >> thank you, jason brooks. >>> cate caugiran is live at twitter headquarters here in san francisco and cate, i guess not everyone is excited about the launch today. right? >> reporter: right. inside the building, inside twitter headquarters, there are a lot of happy twitter employees watching the market but outside the building, take a look the people here outside care about a different market, and that's the housing market. >> what do we want? >> affordable housing! >> this used to be a

and the membership of aarp are now made up of a lot of star trek fans.nted to make sure that the demographics widen. star trek's children are now fast approaching aarp age and they have grandchildren. we play to that large audience. but, the star trek generation as visionary as they are, aren't quite into social media as their grandchildren are or their children are. and so, with that my hosting of this show called takei's take we can talk about google glass or as we discovered, on-line dating is not something that just the young people are into. because aarp members are now getting divorced, or widowed and are longevity is extended and they want a life with a partner or a spouse. and we tell them about on-line dating. and we are broadening the horwoohorizon for a larger democ of people. >> you can see the interview right here tonight on al jazeera america. >> and stay with us rebecca is back with the forecast. on inside story, we bring together unexpected voices closest to the story, invite hard-hitting debate and desenting views and always explore issu

get your "star trek" on. >> get the ears going. a berkeley native andy sandberg talked to jay leno and ended up on the topic of uc santa cruz. >> have a listen. >> you know, in college i worked at a movie theater, i went to santa cruz for two years, i worked at a movie theater. >> the only college that never got applause in the history of this show. any college you no online phoenix. they applaud. that's the only college, nothing. it got nothing. >> everyone here that went there was like what? did i go there? >> not a murmur. >> i went there for seven years. forgot. >> that was pretty good. >> from my college experience many people i went to school with in nebraska even what? that's how college is supposed to be. >> that's not what your parents say. >> we've got an update on the economic recovery. it's due out. we'll bring you the latest jobs numbers. >> we'll tell you about a politician returning to court, this time to officially be sentenced. when our little girl was born, we got a subaru. it's where she said her first word. (lit

the star trek convention is finally here.h the weekend at the hyatt regency in burlingame. william shatner, who played the legendary captain kirk, is set to make an appearance. there will also be appearance by the stars of "deep space 9" and "star trek, the next generation." the convention will feature a special exhibit hall. that will have star trek collectibles, as well as autographs and photo ops. so pretty much everything a trekkie could ever want to see. what do you have for us weather-wise? >> a nice day today with temperatures in the upper 60s in san francisco. 70 oakland. 74 morgan hill. and the accuweather seven-day forecast maybe a few degrees cooler tomorrow with some extra clouds and fog for your sunday. monday look for increasing clouds. and here comes our slight chance of showers late monday into tuesday. mainly in the north bay. maybe you can see a sprinkle over in berkeley, but notice slightly cooler numbers. after that it's the pop sit. wednesday, thursday, friday, sunny and milder. >> hopefully we will get a

my job was to star trek or allegation of abuse going back to the beginning of the camp. no matter how they characterized the conflict. where to treat detainees or those we detain. humane. what i observed that we were still not complying with the law of war. the name diane beaver came up because she wrote the original memo to request these enhanced interrogation to each one of the interrogators was concerned about the techniques that were authorized and so to know what center for reference. people that were there clearly were not the worst of the worst and not everybody should have been there clearly they were just at the wrong place at the wrong time . and sold to the u.s. turned over to the u.s. . and iraq was one of them. you know my job is to. comport with the law make sure my commanders and my chain of command complies with the law so on that professional level of course i got to care because that's my job but on a personal level i mean i'm a human being and i don't i don't get joy out of seeing other human being suffer. the more i looked into it the more i realized

and "star trek" or "star wars."okay, my final thoughts come from early's twitter response, why are manhole covers round? legend has it tech companies like microsoft or google used that as a job question. it's more about creative problem solving and as an applicant approaches the question with more than one correct answer and there are several logical answers to this one. one is a round manhole cover can't full through a circular covering. a square cover could. and a round ma manhole cover is easier to move, by rolling. and one answer was, because the hole is round ? but in new hampshire manhole covers are triangle . where is all the money that is being pumped into the economy to keep interest rates low is actually going. that's next time. this is "real money." i'm ali velshi. . >>> welcome to al jazeera america. here are the top stories at this hour: the uss "george washington" aircraft carrier is expected to arrive in the philippines wednesday night - filled with food and water. president obama ordered two more mil

on the left actor patrick stewart of star trek. next generation fame.t is boston police public information officer cheryl dabing who used 20th tore keep the community informed during the boston marathon bombing and in the middle 9-year-old vivian har fourth grader from marin county. why was she there? carolyn tyler has more on vivian and why she's such a twitter star. >> rippinging the bell at the new york stock exchange is an honor not many people 7. vivian har is in the select few and only nine years old. we first met her last year fighting to end child slavery one glass of lemonade at a tim time. >> honey that's a lot of lemonade. >> already donated over 100,000 dollars and now her stand has gone into a bona fide business. twitter offers her bottle organic product to employees and now sold in 150 stores including this market in her marin county hometown of fairfax. 5 percent of all gross sales go to her cause. >> we can't keep it on the shelf seem see the truck outside sometimes they come in is she here they want to meet her. >> today the fourth grad

the return of the official star trek convention. we found plenty of trekkies arriving early. snatching up merchandise while they get ready to meet william shatner and other stars throughout the weekend. >> i'm so excited for this. i've been to star trek conventions before, and it's great because you get to be here with all the fellow trekkies which is, you know, absolutely amazing plus you get to meet with the stars, you know, people that i literally grew up watching and pretending to be in my everyday life. >> i have been planning for two years to come out here, and this is better than i could have expected. >> what are you looking forward to? >> just meeting william shatner, getting my picture taken with him, jerry ryan as well. >> this is serious business. hotel rooms are sold out on the peninsula. restaurants will be packed. it's a big weekend. the convention runs through sunday at the burlingame hyatt. a photo op with mr. shatner will run you 90 bucks. >> good god, bones. >> good reference. >> beam us up, jeffy. >> yes, we've got that weekend forecast. take it away. all r

the star trek convention is finally here.the hyatt regency in burlingame. william shatner, who played the legendary captain kirk, is set to make an appearance. there will also be appearance by the stars of deep space 9 and star trek, the next generation. the convention will feature a special exhibit hall. they will have autographs and special photo ops. next saturday morning news at six, the death toll continuing to grow by leaps and bounds in the philippines in the wake of the supper storm haiyan. it's heading toward vietnam. and a 13-year-old robbed another gunpoint in the east bay. ♪ dry hair needs a daily dose of effective moisture. new dove daily moisture with our most effective conditioner ever. it gives you up to 5 times smoother hair in one wash. new dove daily moisture. body washes with paper that reacts like skin. if others can strip this paper, imagine how harsh they can be to your skin. oh my gosh. [ female announcer ] dove is different. its breakthrough formula changes everything. dove. this is care. >> good morn

on the left is actor patrick stewart of "star trek: the next generation" fame. on the right, boston police public information officer cheryl feandaka who used twitter to keep the community informed during the boston marathon bombings. and right this in t-- right in middle is vivian har, a fourth grader from marin county. we have more on vivian and why she is such a twitter star. she is. >> reporter: she is. everyone was asking who she is. vivian harr was chosen to share twitter's big day because company executives are impressed with her efforts to help end the modern day slavery of children her age. ringing the bell at the new york stock exchange is an honor not many people receive. vivian harr is among that select few. and she's only 9 years old. [ applause ] [ bell ] >> reporter: we first met vivian last year fighting to end child slavery one glass of lemonade at a time. >> honey, that's a lot of lemonade. >> reporter: she's already donated over $100,000, and now the young girl's lemonade stand has morphed into a bona fide business. twitter offers her bottles

those people who follow star trek. -- fellow star trek geeks will recognize that reference. or harry potter's cloak of invisibility. which is both trust rating and an interesting privilege. when i am wearing a sanitation worker's uniform, i can observe people in ways that they do not realize i'm observing them. i am not part of their world at all. >> even though you were a woman? >> i had my hat on and my hair up. no, it's just the uniform. once in a while, people would be startled because i'm too old, i'm a girl, i was wearing glasses. i do not look the part. although that points to the stereotype. there are plenty of people on this job, if you saw them in their street clothes, you would never think in a million years, oh, you are a sanitation worker. there is this theory that we are all supposed to talk like this and have a cigarette hanging out of our mouth and a three-day beard. that is a cartoon. >> do the guys -- i assume mostly guys -- smoke anymore? >> yes, sometimes i would work with guys who would smoke while loading up truck, but you are not technically allowed to

my job was to star trek or allegation of abuse going back to the beginning of the camp. no matter how they characterize the conflict. we're to treat detainees or those we detain. humane. what i observed that we were still not complying with the law of war. the name diane beaver came up because she wrote the original memo to request these enhanced interrogation to each one of the interrogators was concerned about the techniques that were authorized and so to know what sentence for reference. people that were there clearly were not the worst the worst and not everybody should have been there clearly they were just at the wrong place at the wrong time . and sold to the u.s. or turned over to the u.s. for about it. was one of them. you know my job is to a comport with the law make sure my commanders i'm a chain of command complies with the law so on that professional level of course i got to care because it's my job but on a personal level i mean i'm a human being and i don't i don't get joy out of seeing other human being suffer. the more i looked into it the more i realize

up a $50 million bill for their conferences because nothing helps explain tax fraud better than "star trek" and "gilligan's island." now the department of veterans affairs is embroiled in its own scandal. spending more than $6 million on two conferences in orlando in 2011. and of course, they had to produce a video featuring v.a. employees dancing. but while the irs prefers the cupid shuffle, folks at the v.a. like sister sledge. today on the hill, lawmakers weren't happy. >> veterans affairs is a large agency with deep pockets. yes, it's a large agency with deep pockets. but those pockets were not intended to be picked by either contractors that were likely unnecessary or, in fact, people who we held accountable and paid to be accountable to the taxpayers. >> reporter: and what was the v.a. poduction budget for this video? well, they had $50,000 to make this spoof of patton. that at a time when the v.a. had a backlog of more than 700,000 disability claims, more than 125 days overdue. another obama care contractor under fire for its questionable track record. the british firm charged with

on the left is actor patrick stewart of "star trek: the next generation" fame. on the right, boston police public information officer cheryl feandaka who used twitter to keep the community informed during the boston marathon bombings. and right this in t-- right in middle is vivian har, a fourth grader from marin county. we have more on vivian and why she is such a twitter star. she is. >> reporter: she is. everyone was asking who she is. vivian harr was chosen to share twitter's big day because company executives are impressed with her efforts to help end the modern day slavery of children her age. ringing the bell at the new york stock exchange is an honor not many people receive. vivian harr is among that select few. and she's only 9 years old. [ applause ] [ bell ] >> reporter: we first met vivian last year fighting to end child slavery one glass of lemonade at a time. >> honey, that's a lot of lemonade. >> reporter: she's already donated over $100,000, and now the young girl's lemonade stand has morphed into a bona fide business. twitter offers her bottles

and who also achieved science fiction immortality with his pivotal roll in the star trek episode where no man has gone before. >> ah! >> the challenge of making movies, the joy of making a masterpiece. the iconic actors who starred in one of the greatest movies of all time tonight, "up late." ♪ >>> i work with the new york philharmonic, i'm on the board of the philharmonic, and they wanted to, this year, we talked about it a year ago, they wanted to do some motion picture-related music programs. like john mocherry would do, he's doing "gone with the wind" and so forth, john williams, "star wars," we talked to him about certain program that is come in that are packaged, like a package of hitchcock films with the score already written, like a preconceived package, but the key element to this package was how can we get allen gilbert, the music director of the philharmonic to want to conduct himself, which allen is pretty pure and wants to do the classic repertory. so they said, what film? i said, it will have to be a coopert film. and i said, probably 2001, and allen agreed. they showed 2

. >> jimmy: plus, you loved him as spock in "star trek."way debut, zachary quinto is stopping by! [ cheers and applause ] >> steve: delight! >> jimmy: also joining us tonight, she's a superstar chef, and she has a new cookbook out. we're cooking with giada de laurentiis on the show this evening. [ cheers and applause ] >> steve: come on. >> jimmy: and we're playing a game of catch phrase with lucy, zachary and giada. it's going to be a great show tonight. you're here on a good night. a great night. thank you for being here, everybody. hey, guys, it's time to take a look at the stories making headlines today. and weigh the good with the bad. it's time for "pros and cons." here we go. ♪ pros and cons and pros and cons and pros ♪ >> jimmy: tonight we'll be taking a look at the pros and cons of being a zombie. [ laughter ] any "walking dead" fans out there? [ cheers and applause ] great show. yep, zombies are bigger than ever right now. so let's take a look at the pros and cons of being a zombie. here we go. pro, they communicate by moaning and

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my job was to star trek relegation of abuse going back to the beginning of the camp. no matter how they characterize the conflict. we're to treat detainees or those we detain. humane. what i observed that we were still not complying with the law of war. in the name diane beaver came up because she wrote the original memo to request these enhanced interrogation to each one of the interrogators was concerned about the techniques that were authorized and so to know what sentence for reference. people that were there clearly were not the worst the worst and not everybody should have been there clearly they were just at the wrong place at the wrong time . and sold to the u.s. or turned over to the u.s. for about it. was one of them. you know my job is to a comport with the law make sure my commanders much in a command complies with the law so on that professional level of course i got to care because that's my job but on a personal level i mean i'm a human being i don't i don't get joy out of seeing other human being suffer. the more i looked into it the more i realized th

my job was to star trek relegation of abuse going back to the beginning of the camp. no matter how they characterize the conflict. we're to treat detainees or those we detain. humane. what i observed that we were still not complying with the law of war. in the name diane beaver came up because she wrote the original memo to request these enhanced interrogation to each one of the interrogators was concerned about the techniques that were authorized and so to the extent to for reference. people that were there clearly were not the worst the worst and not everybody should have been there clearly they were just at the wrong place at the wrong time . and sold to the u.s. or turned over to the u.s. for about eight. or nine was one of them. you know my job is to a comport with a lot make sure my commanders much in a command complies with the law so on that professional level of course i got to care because that's my job but on a personal level i mean i'm a human being i don't i don't get joy out of seeing other human being suffer. the more i looked into it the more i realize

my job was to star trek relegation of abuse going back to the beginning of the camp. no matter how they characterize the conflict. we're to treat detainees or those we detain. humane. what i observed that we were still not complying with the law of war. the name diane beaver came up because she wrote the original. to request these enhanced interrogation to each one of the interrogators was concerned about the techniques that were authorized and so to know what sentence for reference. people that were there clearly were not the worst of the worst and not everybody should have been there clearly they were just at the wrong place at the wrong time . and sold to the us turned over to the u.s. . and iraq was one of them. you know my job is to. comport with the law makes sure my commanders and my chain of command complies with the law so on that professional level of course i got to care because that's my job but on a personal level i mean i'm a human being i don't i don't get joy out of seeing other human being suffer. the more i looked into it the more i realized that it