George Takei stuck around after Thursday’s show to give us his own Very Last Word (and kindly pose for a few photos with some of the “Star Trek” fans here on staff). Takei talked about his meeting with Donald Trump this week and his views on marriage equality.

When we were promoting [“The Celebrity Apprentice”] I said I’d like to have lunch with [Trump] and discuss [his] concern about marriage equality, and I expected him to demur. But he said ‘you know something George, I think I can learn something from you.’ So he agreed to it. I was a little taken aback by it, I must say… He is a good business man. We have marriage equality in New York… There are going to be more marriages here, more celebration of their marriages. People coming from other states, like New Jersey, that don’t have marriage equality and coming to New York to celebrate and legalize their union.



And his thoughts on marriage equality: