By Romeo San Vicente
George Takei Beams into NBC's Heroes
From Carol
Burnett on Mad About You to Dixie Carter on
Desperate Housewives, nothing livens up a series like the addition
of a TV giant.
This time, Heroes - one of the only new TV shows to rouse the
attention of the ever-shrinking network audience - has announced the
casting of openly gay Star Trek veteran George Takei as
the father of time-bender Hiro (Masi Oka).
 The fact that Hiro is himself a Trek fanboy just makes the
casting all the more delicious.
Coming out seems to have done wonders for Takei's career - he's also
wrapped The Great Buck Howard with Tom Hanks, and is the
announcer on Howard Stern's Sirius satellite radio show.
No date has yet been set for Takei's premiere on Heroes, but look
for the Internet to be ablaze with Trek-geek excitement.
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