It seems that Star Trek celebs doing Funny or Die viral videos is the in thing. This week it is John Cho, Star Trek’s new Sulu, in a satirical PSA about the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy. Check it out below.
John Cho in Funny or Die DADT satire
John Cho kicks off this satiral PSA against repealing the militaries Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy, along with other actors including Sarah Silverman (who appeared in Star Trek Voyager).
I forgot Sarah Silverman was in Voyager.
Hopefully, I’ll forget again.
He is already following in Takei’s footsteps.
Good for them, it’s about time this stupid policy is overturned!
I have not formed an opinion on this, but here we go again with a bunch of Hollywood types, most of whom never finished college or served in the military, trying to educate us on social and government policy. I really prefer my favorite stars and sports heroes to just shut their mouths concerning politics and religion — be they Susan Sarandon on one end to Mel Gibson on the other end –but that is just me.
I’ll second that thought MJ! I can form my own opinion and educate myself without the aid of self proclaimed expert celebrities!
I’m with you as well, MJ. Well said.
No issue with the PSA, but was that supposed to be funny?
Thanks for deleting my comment Anthony. I think I’m beginning to detect a political bias on your website now and it’s unfortunate that you have to have one. You have stated that you don’t want to be political and yet time and time again you have posted political articles that are clearly pro left. I do not wish to start a political argument, but your hypocrisy warrants exposure. So what if some of us engage in political discussion, it’s our first amendment right to do so.
#4
Well put, MJ.
I don’t want celebrities telling the military how to do its business any more than I want politicians or military leaders telling artists how to do theirs.
#8. I would prefer we both not have political articles like this on this website as well as not allowing political postings like the one you reference which was deleted. So I think you are both wrong, and two wrongs don’t make a right.
7 – ditto. nailed it.
Just curious, are there any celebrities who actually are against homosexuality. I’d like to see that. I hate that all our popluar people are so stupid.
Probably going to delete this, huh?
@4 MJ “I have not formed an opinion on this, but here we go again with a bunch of Hollywood types, most of whom never finished college or served in the military, trying to educate us on social and government policy. I really prefer my favorite stars and sports heroes to just shut their mouths concerning politics and religion.”
They have as much right to an opinion as you do. Unlike you, at least they’re thoughtful enough to form one. You obviously never learned to think in college.
4,5,6
Totally agreed! Celebrities usually get political when they think its cool to do so, not realizing that they live in a different world (not physically, just culturally and economically) than the rest of us. Celebrities who issue political PSAs end up talking down to regular folks making them out to be morons (though I suppose a lot of today’s television and film audiences are idiots, but that is another topic for another day). The stars end up putting themselves on a pedestal. And we see what happens to them when they do, i.e celebs who tell normal people to quit driving because it contributes to global warming while flying all over the world in their private jets and driving gas guzzling Hummers and Lambourghinis.
When good men and women with essential skills, such as fluency in Arabic, are dismissed because of their sexual preference, we’re all less safe. The military in our republic must answer to civilians: our elected federal officials. So in effect, all voters, through our representatives, have a say in military policy on who should be in its ranks. It is our military so it should mirror our nation. Only the intolerant would want to exclude gays who are otherwise physically and mentally qualified to serve.
How can bigots be Star Trek fans? Some one explain it to me.
#15
Well, technically the military doesn’t have an outwardly, aggressive policy of excluding homosexuals; it’s only when someone asks or someone tells that it becomes an issue. But, having said that, the military does have (and presumably always had) a macho, hetero-centric culture within its ranks. Doing away with don’t ask, don’t tell could cause more problems than it prevents. Wasn’t that the Clinton administration’s original intent? To essentially force it into being a non-issue?
#13: “They have as much right to an opinion as you do.”
Sure they do. I would just prefer not to here their opinion.
“Unlike you, at least they’re thoughtful enough to form one. You obviously never learned to think in college.”
Perhaps I do have an opinion on this, but I have enough class and common sense not to bring it up on a Star Trek fan website. Thanks so much for the personal attack.
#16. I agree completely. Logically, ST fans and bigots should be mutually exclusive. Maybe just some trolls here me thinks.
They should just replace “don’t ask, don’t tell” with a policy of “shut up about your personal life, only discuss Star Trek.”
Seems to work around here. Most of the time….
:D
#20 — WELL SAID VULTAN !!!!! :-))
Vultan, this is a Star Trek site. You want politics, there are plenty of political sites. (I’d say the same to Funny or Die.)
“So in effect, all voters, through our representatives, have a say in military policy on who should be in its ranks.”
Indeed. And the voters, through their representatives, haven’t seen fit to repeal the policy, stupid or not.
I’d wonder if you’d say the same about Prop. 8.
Oh great, a Prop 8 debate now. Thanks so much Anthony for posing this great “Star Trek News” article…Scotty, beam me out of here…
I did laugh at the vid though. Very amusing. Cos its true. Or it isn’t. To be honest I’m not sure if they were being satirical of being serious.
(hows that for fence sitting? :-D )
#22
Funny how you single me out for making this site political (which gives us an article about a very political topic no less), then you proceed in opining about Prop 8.
With hypocrisy like that you’d fit right in with the Washington crowd.
25 posts and no one had done it yet, so…
Kirk: Spock, this whole “Don’t ask, don’t tell policy” Starfleet has certainly puts us in a difficult spot. What do you, with your logical mind, think we should do?
Spock: mfffmmwermffmfsrc-kk-omff-wuzz-fferrrrff!
Kirk: Brilliant, as always, Spock. Now, are you going to spit or swallow?
#16 Yes, let’s ban the Bigots and all who disagree with us.
Who made actors experts on social issues and politics? Let them do what they do incredibly well, act, and not use their celebrity status as a forum unless they are subject to the same scrutiny and labels as “bigots” (your mean spirited label, not mine) Star Trek is about tolerance not name calling.
8:
The First Amendment doesn’t apply here. This is a voluntary forum on a for profit website for the expression of ideas within certain agreed-upon guidelines, one of which is to keep blatantly partisan opinions to one’s self, and off the boards.
Well, as a veteran I can tell you that DADT has done nothing but harm to the U.S. military.
When faced with going to war, you don’t care who the guy next you is attracted to. You care about whether or not he knows his job.
All that stuff about gays undermining unit cohesion and destroying trust is crap.
Vultan, I don’t think I was responding to you, but to the guy who said the people should decide. I was simply pointing out the hypocrisy.
Ugh, Sarah Silverman… the epitome of the vapid, unintelligent, talentless D-Listers who think they are “with it”. What’s really amusing is that Democrats enacted this policy to begin with, starting with Woodrow Wilson’s “blue discharges” in the 1910’s. Gosh, facts are such a drag!
Good Job Bill Clinton! *rolls eyes*
This comment will probably be deleted.
great stuff, mister cho. personally, i think straight male soldiers who sleep with ugly women should be banned from the military. i can’t stand the thought of fighting alongside someone who would mate with a butt ugly slag.
To #31.
Totally agreed! I also cannot stand Sarah Silverman.
@ 29. D.Chris
Thank you for the well-informed comment and for your service to the country.
@16 Jackson Lake “How can bigots be Star Trek fans? Some one explain it to me.”
The inclusive message of Star Trek is the antithesis to the beliefs these posters espouse.
@16 So yeah, I don’t understand it either. So many TOS episodes dealt with controversial topics. So do they have a problem with those episodes too because they expressed a point of view? Or maybe these posters only absorb Star Trek on a very basic level, then continue with their uninformed, intolerant, and self-absorbed existence.
@ 2. MJ – “He is already following in Takei’s footsteps.”
That’s a thinly disguised snide remark verging homophobia.
@27 I’d like to ban the bigots because they’re just about hate and intolerance. Different opinions are welcome if they can remain civil, something we’re rapidly losing in the good ol’ US of A.
Good for them. If someone has celebrity that doesn’t mean they have to zip their lips. We do have the ability to turn off, not read, not click.
If one doesn’t want to hear an opinion, don’t. But they certainly have the right to express it in any form they choose.
37 — WOW!!! Hey Einstein, read what I said. Takei is a supporter of Gay rights, and now Cho is. Duh! Do not drag me into your Crossfire style debate here.
i’d still fornicate with Sarah Silverman regardless of her percieved intellect.
Im not sure that video was ‘funny’ but it certainly nails the political point…
but the few gay/lesbian/T-girls i’ve met in my travels as friends, uh, they weren’t into pink tutu’s (more like Transam’s and other fast sh*t)
and again, it would serve you well to know how your senators & reps voted… cause id be more than happy to vote for his/her replacement in Nov…
Wow! I think #29 said it best. A lot of the people I know who are enlisted in the military as well have no problem with their fellow soldier being gay – they’re more concerned about having someone there who is well-trained, intelligent, and who is going to watch their back.
I don’t have any problem with this being posted on Trekmovie.com – this site posts anything that is Star Trek relevant – I don’t think they have any agenda beyond that. If some of you believe this site is left leaning, maybe it’s because Star Trek itself is left leaning. Clearly the show, in all of its incarnations, has said again and again that judging people based on their lifestyles/cultures/appearance is wrong.
Why are the elderly so hateful?
39. And I have a right to take lightly and ignore movie stars and sports heroes, many of whom have never finished college, try to lecture me on politics, be they on the left or on the right. I also have the right to point out their lack of qualifications to be taken seriously in the public forum on major issues. I prefer to develop my views based on reading in detail on the issues…and I recommend reading credible newspapers (I read the LA Times and WSJ daily) to get the real details that those “news entertainment” shows on Fox, CNN and MSNBC, as well as nearly all political web blogs, leave out. Heaven help us, but we are seeing an entire generation of people who get their understanding of the world primarily from TV news and web blogs. Sorry, but I refuse to accept fast food news and fast food celebrity opinions on important issues of the day.
Your “preference” does not supersede the rights of others. Actors – whether it is John Cho, Mel Gibson, or anybody else – retain all of their rights as citizens. Like the rest of us, they do have lives outside of their job. And despite your protestations to the contrary, nobody’s forcing you to watch the PSA. Anthony didn’t hold you hostage, did he?
You clicked on the link of your own free will. You watch television of your own free will too. If you don’t like what’s being said on TV, there’s one sure way you won’t hear any of it:
Turn it off.
Cho should work on his acting skills.
His same mopey frown just wears on my nerves.
hahahahaha so many people are arguing about this on a Star Trek fan website! Heaven forbid they put up videos opposing this one on here… That wouldn’t be fair I guess.
XD
People (whatever their profession may be) standing up to be a voice for those who have done nothing wrong but have been restricted for it is not a political issue.
It’s a basic moral one. It’s an issue of empathy.
It amazes me that so many of the posters, Trekkies even, can so easily empathize with fictional aliens but can’t do the same for their real-life fellow human beings.
Sorry to say, for may soldiers “not telling” doesn’t work. :-/ Many have been kicked out regardless of “not telling”.
Even if it did, why should any soldier who has enough stress on his/her plate keeping this country safe, have to have the additional stress of keeping something he/she should be happy about a secret, lest they lose their job, when others don’t?
Anyone who has a problem with repealing “don’t ask, don’t tell” or hearing about it and calls himself a Trekkie is a hypocrite.
John Cho and others who participated in this video are awesome for doing this. :)
You tell ’em Harold.
#45. Wouldn’t you agree that I have an equal right to comment on it and point our their qualification or lack thereof, don’t I? It sounds like you would prefer a world when no one challenged a media star’s opinion and everybody just turned off or avoid media links that contained information that they didn’t like? If an actor or sports hero had a massive public forum to spout their political or religious beliefs, then is is certainly disingenuous for you to tell me, on single citizen on these message boards, to “go away”. What a hypocrite!