George Takei explores the 2014 South by Southwest Interactive Conference in Austin, Texas and chats with one of the festival organizers, Christine Auten.

George Takei visits the renowned Cathedral of Junk in Austin, Texas, and punches a shark in the face through Oculus Rift at Chaotic Moon Studios.

George Takei meets with Atlas Wearables at the Pure Austin Gym, visits Filament Labs to chat patient engagement and learns about aging in place with Frog Design.

George Takei talks with Matthew Segal, founder of OurTime.org (http://OurTime.org) at SXSW about the power that social media, technology and Star Trek have to bring people together, affect change, and connect across generations.

George Takei visits Beantown, the birthplace of American innovation, to find out how this city of firsts continues to shape our future

George Takei visits the MIT Media Lab and the MIT AgeLab, where he takes a test drive in Miss Daisy, a car designed to respond to the needs of aging drivers.

George Takei learns about Boston advances in hardware, robotics and fabrication, through visits to hotbeds of innovation and collaboration, like Greentown Labs, Artisan's Asylum, Bolt, and Rethink Robotics.

George Takei visits AARP's Innovation@50+ Health Expo, receives a cutting-edge check-up from a smartphone, and gets a lesson on gene therapy at bluebird bio.

George Takei visits Hiroshima, Japan—a city where he has roots, a city with a tragic past, and a city now devoted to peace.

George Takei continues his visit to Hiroshima, Japan. After paying his respects at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, George journeys to the Radiation Effects Research Foundation where learns about the new technologies being used to treat and measure the after effects of the atomic bomb.

George Takei continues his visit to Hiroshima, reconnecting with his cousin Masataka Nakamura. George pays a visit to the site of of his Grandmother's former home. He also pays his respects to his Aunt's gravesite.

George Takei meets students using drama and journalism to keep the legacy of Hiroshima alive. In addition, Takei visits The Hiroshima Archive in Tokyo, where Google Earth is used to pinpoint Hiroshima survivors.

George Takei takes his quest for technology to Tokyo, the origin of global tech trends. There he meets tech journalist, Nobuyuki Hayshi, to discover the Akihabara district (once known as Electric Town after WWII), which has transformed into a place that inspires imagination, entrepreneurship and high-tech innovation.

In Tokyo, George experiences a traditional Japanese tea ceremony and meets with a new guard of entrepreneurs, who are changing the tech game throughout Japan. Fresh start-ups are forging a new path of technology innovation that is revolutionary, but still distinctly Japanese.