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Remember when Noah Bennett (aka HRG) asked Mohinder Suresh "Are you on the list?" In the latest issue of Entertainment Weekly, "Heroes" Hayden Panettiere, Masi Oka, and George Takei made the 100 List in their "The TV Stars We Love Right Now" category.

Why were they chosen?

Panettiere is best know as indestructible high school cheerleader Claire (Bear) Bennett. The character became a central focal point for the series when future Hiro Nakamura (Masi Oka) time travels to the past to find superpower-sponge Peter Petrelli on a New York subway and leaves Peter with the cryptic message that has become the pop culture catchphrase of the new millennium: "Save the cheerleader. Save the world."

"I think it was very clever," Panettiere said. One side effect of the fame that comes with the slogan is that she often hears someone calling "Hey, cheerleader!"

"But it’s fun. It's not an obnoxious thing."

George Takei and Masi Oka play fictional father and son on the show.

As Sulu in the original "Star Trek" series, Takei, 70, blazed trails for Asian-American actors. His best moment is arguably in the episode "The Naked Time" where Sulu took the title almost literally.

"It was the one where I whipped off my shirt and accosted everyone on the Enterprise with my fencing abilities."

The training for his swordsmanship paid off again in the "Heroes" episode "Landslide" where Takei's character teaches son Hiro to use a sword, and gives him the courage to stop creepy supervillain Sylar.

Takei, a life-long political activist, recently came out of the closet and declared that he is gay. His priority in life is working for equal rights for gays and lesbians. But he has other goals in mind as well.

"I want an Oscar," he said.

What's interesting even more is that his 33-year-old on-screen son is not even a Trekkie. In fact, he's a Warsie.

"My allegiance is to Star Wars," Oka said. On top of his duties on "Heroes," Oka works as a special effects consultant at George Lucas' Industrial Light and Magic. "But I was a huge George Takei fan growing up. He was the only person I could look up to in terms of Asians in the media."

"Heroes" returns in the fall with its second season on NBC.