Hawaii Five-0 Books Star Trek Icon George Takei

Vlada Gelman

October 17, 2012 at 7:14 PM

Hawaii Five-0 Books Star Trek Icon George Takei

Hawaii Five-0 is beaming up quite the guest star.

Star Trek vet George Takei will appear on an upcoming Season 3 episode of the CBS drama, TVLine has confirmed.

Takei will play the uncle of Daniel Dae Kim’s Chin Ho Kelly, as announced by CBS via Twitter. He will provide the team with information that helps them with a case.

The guest spot marks a potential mini-Heroes reunion. In addition to his legendary role as Star Trek‘s Sulu and his recent voice work on Adventure Time, Archer and Community, Takei appeared on the NBC sci-fier as the father of Hiro (played by Masi Oka, who now costars on Hawaii Five-0).

Takei’s episode is slated to air in December.

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