Takei is asteroid #7307 and also known as 1994 GT9. Takei was discovered by Shimizu Yoshisada (清水 義定) and Urata Takeshi (浦田 武) at the Nachi-Katsuura Observatory. Takei’s orbit is characterized by a semi-major axis of 2.74 Astronomical Units, an eccentricity of 0.09, a period of revolution of 1 655 days, and an inclination of 7.0 degrees.

Takei is named after George Takei, who is a Japanese American actor and known for playing the role of Hikaru Sulu (in the Japanese dub: Kato Hikaru) in the original Star Trek series. Gene Roddenberry wanted Lieutenant Sulu to represent all of Asia, so he didn’t choose a Japanese name. He chose a name, which Japanese people can’t pronounce, for the Japanese character instead. Thus he did a terrible job and there are different speculations how the name Sulu was chosen. According to George Takei the name was adopted from the Sulu Sea because it borders Malaysia as well as the Philippines and could thus represent different Asians.

1994 GT9 has other designations too. Although the official discovery date is April, 13th, in 1994, it must have been known since latest 1978. But 1994 GT9 got the name Takei in 2007. George Takei was born in 1937 and is still alive. Meanings of the asteroid #7307 can hence be derived from George Takei’s life between 1937 and 2007. The role of Hikaru Sulu however seems to have been the main reason for naming 1994 GT9 after this actor.

George Takei (b. 1937) is an actor best known for his role as Mr. Sulu in the original Star Trek television series. He also has a lengthy record of public service through his involvement with organizations such as the Japanese American Citizens League and the Human Rights Campaign. The name was suggested by T. H. Burbine. [Ref: Minor Planet Circ. 60728]

http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/db_search/show_object?object_id=7307

Upon learning of the decision to name the asteroid after him, he said, “I am now a heavenly body. I found out about it yesterday. … I was blown away. It came out of the clear, blue sky—just like an asteroid.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Takei#Awards_and_recognition

Robert Justman, co-producer of the original Star Trek series, noted that Takei had previously played bad guys, but through Star Trek had become one of the first Asian actors to portray an Asian character in a positive light. Justman described him as “the antithesis of the so-called expressionless-unemotional-inscrutable Asian.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hikaru_Sulu#Reception

Another likely reason is that George Takei had an official coming out as gay in 2005. He lived together with his manager and partner Brad Altman already since 1987. His name is now Brad Takei because they married in 2008. They had a Buddhist wedding ceremony because George Takei is Buddhist. Both of his parents had already been Buddhists. George Takei’s Star Trek co-actors Nichelle Nichols (born Grace Dell Nichols) and Walter Marvin Koenig (Lieutenant Commander Nyota Uhura and Ensign Pavel Andreievich Chekov) were George Takei’s and Brad Altman’s witnesses. George Takei has been besides an actor also active as an author and as a country music singer.

During the Second World War belonged George Takei and his family to the Japanese Americans, who were labelled Enemy Aliens and incarcerated in American concentration camps. (I’m glad that Americans themselves use these terms because I as a German would never dare to do this on my own!) Many of George Takei’s relatives died of the American nuclear bomb on Hiroshima. George Takei however is very anglophile and loves everything British.

Takei’s name isn’t telling much. He prefers to be written with katakana as George Takei (ジョージ・タケイ) in Japanese too. His Japanese personal name is Hosato, but he again prefers this name to be written as Hosato Takei (ホサト・タケイ). So the Japanese Wikipedia authors probably guess when they give his name also as Takei Hosato (武井 穂郷). While Hosato (穂郷) isn’t a common name and means something like crest home, Takei (武井) is a common family-name and means something like warrior water well. I guess this name is derived from a fortress or a bulwark, emphasizing that it could withstand long sieges because never running short of water.

If the asteroid Takei represents mainly playing the role of Lieutenant Hikaru Sulu, then George Takei’s absence in half a season must be emphasized too! This was when Walter Marvin Koenig came on board of Star Trek. George Takei had then already feared that Ensign Pavel Andreievich Chekov (Павел Андреевич Чехов) would replace Lieutenant Hikaru Sulu completely. But George Takei made, with respect to the meaning of Takei, himself an interesting suggestion:

In May 2011, in response to a Tennessee State Legislature bill that prohibited school teachers or students from using any language that alludes to the existence of homosexuality (the “Don’t Say Gay” bill), Takei released another PSA in which he offered up his name, suggesting that people could just substitute that for ‘gay’. For example, they could support Takei Marriage or watch Takei Pride Parades; or even use slurs such as That’s so Takei.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Takei#Politics

So the meaning of Takei is clear and obvious. The astrological force Takei hints to (at least) male homosexuality and to gay people. Astrologers wonder since many decades whether anything in an astrological chart could reveal male homosexuality or hint to a person, who is gay. The solution to this mystery could be right here!