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World Enough and Time

  • Episode aired Aug 23, 2007

George Takei, James Cawley, and John M. Kelley in Star Trek Phase II (2004)

During an emergency transport, Sulu returns 30 years older than when he left and with his daughter. During an emergency transport, Sulu returns 30 years older than when he left and with his daughter. During an emergency transport, Sulu returns 30 years older than when he left and with his daughter.

  • Marc Scott Zicree
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  • Michael Reaves
  • James Cawley
  • Jeffery Quinn
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World Enough and Time (2007)

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George Takei

  • Yeoman Janice Rand

Majel Barrett

  • The Computer
  • (as Majel Barrett Roddenberry)

Christina Moses

  • Dr. Chandris
  • Demora Sulu
  • Ensign Mallory
  • Sulu's Granddaughter

Kurt Carley

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  • Trivia First role for Grace Lee Whitney, who plays Yeoman Janice Rand, since 1998.
  • Goofs When Sulu is seen as captain on the U.S.S. Excelsior, the master systems display (MSD) at the rear of the bridge is for the modified Excelsior class starship (like the Enterprise-B) and not the original, which the Excelsior is.

Janice Rand : Don't look so worried.

Sulu : Say that one more time, and I swear, I'll bust you back to Yeoman.

  • Crazy credits "For Ray Bradbury ...with love" at the start of the episode
  • Connections References Star Trek: The City on the Edge of Forever (1967)

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  • Nov 8, 2007
  • August 23, 2007 (United States)
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John cho shares some star trek beyond details about sulu’s daughter.

Did you know that Commander Sulu has a daughter? We might learn a little bit more about her in Star Trek Beyond , according to this ET interview with John Cho and his cast-mates. While operating his command station, Sulu keeps a small picture of his daughter close at hand. Cho admits that it’s “unprofessional,” since the small picture gets in the way of the buttons on his console, but the picture provides him some comfort in his “heartache” of being away from home.

Some may be surprised to learn that Sulu has a daughter at all, but longtime Star Trek fans will remember  Ensign Demora Sulu . Even when Jacqueline Kim played her on Star Trek: Generations , her appearance had not been foreshadowed, really, since her character got created after George Takei turned down the movie. Takei later admitted that her inclusion was a surprise to him as well:  “It’s intriguing. I’d like to know how I had her. Who her mother is. That’s the thing about doing a long-lasting serialized film or TV series. You really are in the hands of the writers …”

Some of Demora’s story has been filled out in the extended universe, but she definitely hasn’t appeared in the latter-day Star Trek movies as yet. Indeed, we don’t know whether Sulu’s daughter in this timeline is named Demora — nor has she even been cast! Who’s the girl in the picture that John Cho has? Apparently, they “got it out of a picture frame at Walgreen’s.” Heh.

Still, this doesn’t sound like it’s going to just be a throwaway character moment for Sulu. John Cho promises, “there is another revelation that you’ll find out in regards to this baby, but you’ll have to wait to see the movie.” Perhaps we’ll meet Demora’s mother, then? Innnnteresting.

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Named after the city where she was conceived, Demora was portrayed by Jacqueline Kim.

A chance encounter between her father and mother Susan Ling led while her father was visiting the town of Demora on Earth led to her conception. Sulu's father was unaware that her mother had become pregnant from the encounter. Ling had not told Sulu's father about her, and it was only after her mother's death from Sukaro's disease that her father became aware of her existence.

Once while visiting the academy the younger while her father was teaching a class Sulu wandered away and wound up in the bridge simulator while pyrotechnic tests were being done. Running out of the simulator she bumped into then Admiral James T. Kirk . Kirk took notice of her with wry amusement, but her father was less than pleased about Sulu's antics in the simulator.

By the 2290s the younger Sulu had decided to follow in her father's footsteps by entering Starfleet. She graduated from Starfleet Academy in 2293 and was posted to the newly commissioned Enterprise-B with the rank of Ensign under the command of Captain John Harriman . Retired Captain James T. Kirk was pleased that the new Enterprise would have a Sulu at the helm.

Sulu was briefly considered dead when she was kidnapped and replaced with a crazed clone that Harriman was forced to shoot and kill. However Sulu's father was determined to investigate why she had apparently gone berzerk and discovered that she was still alive, and rescued her. A short time later Sulu was promoted to Lieutenant by Harriman.

In 2295 Demora survived an assassination attempt by the Klingon pirate Qagh (aka The Albino). This was in large part due to her father having visited Omega IV and gaining an immunity to viruses from that planet, which he had passed on to her.

Sulu continued her rise through the ranks on the Enterprise , and by 2311 was the ship's first officer.

After the Tomed Incident Captain Harriman gave up command of the Enterprise , and named Sulu as his successor. Promoted to the rank of Captain, Sulu served as the commanding officer of the Enterprise for many years.

  • Initially Demora was intended to be the daughter of Pavel Chekov . It was only in later versions of the script that she became the daughter of Hikaru Sulu.
  • The short story Seduction identified Demora as the Starfleet Captain who sponsored Chakotay for Starfleet Academy. The novel Pathways stated it was Demora's son Hiromi who sponsored the young man's entry into Starfleet.
  • Hikaru Sulu's daughter in Star Trek Beyond may have been Demora's alternate reality counterpart.
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INTERVIEW: John Cho Talks Sulu’s Journey, Cut Scene in Star Trek Beyond

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| July 19, 2016 | By: Aaron Harvey 42 comments so far

TrekMovie sat down with John Cho to talk Sulu, his family (including a scene cut from the script for Star Trek Beyond ), and his hopes for the character of Sulu in ‘Star Trek 4’.

Beware of light spoilers (nothing we haven’t seen in trailers, clips, or learned from interviews).

You can also listen to the interview in a supplemental edition of the Shuttle Pod podcast in the player below.

Throughout the film, the main crew of the Enterprise are paired off into teams of two that have to find their way back to one another. Sulu ends up traveling with Uhura, and the two get the chance to reveal a lot about their lives to each other.

But, as John Cho revealed to us, there was a scene written into the script, that was later cut before filming, which let us understand Sulu’s turmoil over putting his husband and daughter into harms way.

“There was a scene that is not in the film but was written which is very revealing, where Sulu makes a confession to Uhura and says that his husband didn’t want to move out to [starbase] Yorktown, which is this remote outpost, but he made that sacrifice for Sulu’s career. Sulu felt a very heavy sense of guilt about having made that move and now had inadvertently endangered is family, and then Uhura comforts him. You know, that was a color that wouldn’t have come out if we hadn’t been paired off, and I thought that was cool. You see little moments, here and there, holding one another back or this ‘looking out for one another’ thing that happens throughout the cast in different ways. Caring for each other in these pairing that comes out a little bit more than if we were on the bridge, where our relationships are primarily with Kirk, so you see different things. I found that to be a fun color to add to a Trek movie.”

The character of Sulu is being portrayed for the first time in Beyond as gay in a simple, really lovely no-big-deal scene. This is a huge boon for the LGBTQ community, and many people say it’s been a long time coming in Trek, which has historically been ahead of the social curve. Cho says that he thinks Sulu’s sexuality, but especially the way in which it was portrayed, is in keeping with Gene Roddenberry’s vision.

“I feel like it’s in keeping with – this is my personal opinion, because obviously Roddenberry isn’t here to say yea or nay, but I personally think it’s in keeping with the goals he laid out. It feels of a piece with all the progressive things that he did. Also, our treatment of it is progressive. You know, it’s news today, but it’s not news in the film, which I like, and in 10 years it won’t play like news, and that would’ve aged our film.”

Fans going back and watching The Original Series through a modern lens will get a similar sense, where certain aspects that were, at the time, extremely progressive and even unheard of are seen as no big deal or even go unnoticed in 2016.

“I mean, that’s another thing we’re not bringing up in all this talk of diversity, that it was the middle of the Cold War, and there’s a Russian – ‘we’re trusting this guy?’ I just watched Trumbo , and I was just reminded of how fervent the anti-Communist thing was in this country and anti-Russian thing and we destroyed people over this. Absolutely destroyed people’s lives over this fear.”

John Cho has also helped spur progress for the Asian community. He was recently the subject of a twitter hashtag #StarringJohnCho, which sparked a conversation about Asian Americans in popular culture and their perception. Twitter users photoshopped Cho into leading roles of popular films. We asked him what movie he would most like to see himself star in retroactively.

“We, the Star Trek cast, saw The Martian in Dubai. You know, maybe because it’s kind of near-future space movie, you know maybe it was about bringing a member of the team home, that familial camaraderie thing, was very moving for us as a cast, and I remember, to a man, each of us being emotionally effected by that film, so I’ll pick that one because it’s so fresh in my mind and so meaningful to this group I’m with in this hotel today.

Now that a fourth film has been officially announced , where does John Cho see the character of Sulu going from here?

“I could go for a lot of stuff. I could go for some action, return to the action we had in the first one. I could go for a personal crisis, an existential crisis. I would go further into [the story of Sulu and his family], too. You know, the conversation I talked about that’s not in the movie – THAT conversation. “I[Sulu] want to move to Yorktown, I want to chase this commission, come with me.” “No I don’t want to go that far, I don’t want to take the kid out…”. That kind of scene would be great.”

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In Beyond co-writer Doug Jung plays Ben, Sulu’s husband. According to John Cho, it was his idea to cast an Asian man in that particular role.

“Doug [Jung] is in the movie, our screenwriter, as my husband. I think they were having trouble finding Asian actors in Dubai who were willing the play gay and I had requested an Asian husband as a sort of tribute to…I think it’s extra difficult for Asian men to come out of the closet. I have some friends, they take longer to come out of the closet… Asian men are very rarely with Asian men, and I always personally thought that it was because the family thing was a little extra heavy, and so they’re less likely to be with people that look like their family as a result. That was my personal pet theory about why my friends were never with Asian men. So in the future I thought it would be cool that it was totally normalized so that it kind of looked like a heterosexual couple. On the one hand it was very traditional, and on the other hand, from a gay politics side, it was kind of radical.”

Sulu and Ben’s daughter is assumed by many to be Demora Sulu, Hikaru Sulu’s daughter introduced in Star Trek: Generations . But, it’s not actually clear that this is the case in Beyond . When asked if the character’s name is explicitly Demora, Cho said, “I don’t think it is. I don’t remember whether there is a name.” So, who knows. We’ll have to wait until the next film to find out more about Sulu’s Kelvin daughter.

Editor’s note: Many thanks to Aaron Harvey and the team at trek.fm .

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I’m actually a huge fan of this decision to make Sulu gay. I just watched The Naked Time last night and Sulu grabbed Uhura as he was swashbuckling the bridge, but that did not mean he was straight.

I look forward to this movie more and more. And I’m getting stoked about the 4th one as well.

There was nothing “straight” about the way he grabbed Uhura. He was playing a part in his fantasy.

Exactly, that was him living out the swashbuckling fantasy and grabbing a “fair maiden.” It felt more like a kid playing pirate or something, not anything more serious than that.

Actually, it felt like a gay man playing Errol Flynn, in a staged number at La Cage aux Folles.

Yeah thats a stretch…if Sulu was gay he would have acted differently IMO. GT made it clear , Sulu was not gay, so any amount of doing the mind twist doesnt change it. Sulu is however gay in the new (as they call it) Kelvin verse. Those are the facts as are GT disappointment with the change and his reasons for it are public record.

ThePhaige, how would he have acted differently?

His character was NOT gay and that has been confirmed…those are the facts, I am not going to debate the issue because its a fallacious argument to do so. People tend to act in accordance with their perspective alignments is the main point I am making.

Good to know we have someone from TOS on this board, ThePhaige. Sulu was gay. Embrace it. Heck, embrace HIM. It wont rub off man…

He likely means Sulu would have been stereotypically flamboyant. And he can’t prove it by anything in canon. He has to rely on an off-camera explanation, by the actor. It’s just too bad it makes no difference what the actor says if it doesn’t show up on screen. And then he seems to be saying gay people see gay where it’s not true, and straight people see straight when it’s not necessarily true. So if we see Sulu’s performance in TOS as being “gay”, then we must be gay. There is a third option, which is that Takei himself is gay, and isn’t that good of an actor, so what we got was his personality on screen. Because whether the character is gay or straight, without displaying the defining characteristic, which is a relationship with someone of the same sex, the reality is there would otherwise not necessarily be any noticible difference in the way they behaved, regardless of the observers “perspective”.

GT would take any excuse to get his name out. He’s pathetic. And as far as him making anything clear, he doesnt get to make any decisions about characters he doesnt own. The idea Nero’s arrival made Sulu gay is idiotic. Sulu was gay in either universe. Maybe in the prime universe he was closeted. That sucks. Welcome to 2016 George. Please go away.

“I’m actually a huge fan of this decision to make Sulu gay. I just watched The Naked Time last night and Sulu grabbed Uhura as he was swashbuckling the bridge, but that did not mean he was straight. ”

Really? I assumed that’s what it meant, as well as when the showgirls in “Shore Leave” cozied up to him, or when he imagined that woman in “The Lorelei Signal,” or when he and Chekov were pursuing the Klingon woman (Vixis?) in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, or when Mirror Sulu was making aggressive passes at Uhura, or when we found out Sulu had a daughter in Star Trek: Generations, etc.

DrH, I’m gay and have done all those things. The thing with the Klingon woman was not oh, she’s hot, it was like two kids following around this Amazon of a woman. It felt like “oh my god she’s big” not “oh my god she’s hot.” Chekov says “she has wonderful muscles” which to play devil’s advocate could be construed in many different ways. Again, I’m gay, I’ve had girls flirt with me openly at bars and I was flattered. Mirror Sulu could be straight, he also came off as pervy which prime universe Sulu wasn’t. If you believe in alternate universes there are infinite derivatives of yourself out there. In DS9 we saw some characters who had lesbian counterparts in that universe. I just don’t get what the big deal is. It’s not like you’re taking someone like Kirk and saying after all of his womanizing, he’s now gay.

Fine, PEB. All I’m saying is that you could just as well see all those things as indications of Sulu being straight. I mean, I don’t recall seeing one single indication that he was anything but straight in “Star Trek.”

It’s Occam’s razor. What is the most likely conclusion based on the evidence? Plus, how did the actor play him? We know Takei played the character straight, because that was his backstory as written by Gene Roddenberry.

If Sulu wasn’t straight in the original “Star Trek,” then it was all an act and he was in the closet, something that shouldn’t occur in the progressive society shown on Star Trek, as pointed out by George Takei.

Sorry, but I’m with Mr. Takei on this. Sulu-Prime was straight, as Sulu-Kelvin should be, according to the entire thesis for the Kelvin characters.

That said, I do agree that Curious Cadet’s explanation, accounting for the “butterfly effect” caused by Nero’s incursion where the timeline split occurs, could possibly lead to a Sulu genetically different from the original one, that is, a sibling. But, then again, as I said, that kind of violates the very goal of the reboot, that these are indeed the same characters at their core as the originals.

As a Star Trek fan, and a gay man who’s a Star Trek fan, I liked the idea of Sulu being gay but hearing Cho’s words on it make me respect the decision and him THAT much more than I already did. It sounds like it was really well thought out, well executed, and I’ve got to say I’m disappointed that they never filmed that scene. More of this and hopefully more of this type of writing in the tv series that’s coming from CBS. Inclusion is a good thing, representation is a good thing, but when you execute it the right way, it’s pretty amazing and organic.

“Weren’t you straight when I came in?” “Could be.” “I tend to notice little things like that. Whether a guy is straight or gay.” “And which do you prefer?” “Oh, providing the cuffs and collars match uh(shrugs).”

What, doesn’t anybody here remember DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER and the Tiffany Case intro?

Thanks kmart. I love brain teaser references.

Love this and everything about Sulu being gay. In the new trailer when he “hits the gas” you can see his wedding ring on his hand as he pushed the lever. Truly awesome. Going to a 3 movie marathon tomorrow here in NYC with my fiancé that ends with Beyond in IMAX 3D and he is just as excited as I am. #SpaceGays #AboutTime Live long and come out. <3

In a way, I’m glad Star Trek didn’t get on the gay bandwagon until now. Imagine if this happened in the 80s. Say, a TNG season 2 or 3. I bet they wouldn’t be able to resist making it a full episode centered on a gay couple – complete with a mandatory tragic death of one of the partners, presumably to serve as a metaphor of the inherent tragicness of being gay. It would be much like that cringeworthy Trill episode, but worse.

So yea, it may be decades late, but at least it’s done tastefully, without any leather hats and rainbow flags anywhere in sight. Let’s be thankful for that. ;)

lol You mean like Blood & Fire? The script that was to be a TNG episode? The script where one of the couple dies? You’re absolutely right sir. I enjoyed what Phase 2 did with that script but man, it’s not the way I’d like to see it handled in a modern Trek story.

Oh, I wasn’t aware of that one. Now I have to see it! :D

Gays tragically dying was such a trope back then. So many gays died in the 80s and 90s TV, it was a damn genocide…

Perhaps in the fourth movie we can have a little more exploration and adventure that doesn’t involve a villain. If it’s true that Kirks father is back, a movie with the Guardian of Forever would be fantastic and a logical way for him to be in the film.

As a straight guy, I don’t care if you’re gay or straight. Be a compelling character. THAT is what matters. (You know… the content of your character?)

True very true and well-said, but you also want to make sure to have gay characters that are visible and part of Trek. As a gay man, who was deeply involved with a gay man in the us military, this type of character beat means so much more than I could even put into words. It’s representation which was part of what Trek was about in its beginnings.

So, the agenda is really more important than the story. Got it.

dswynne – it’s only an agenda if you notice it. For the rest of us, yeah, it’s just a story.

It’s an agenda if the original poster says, “…but you also want to make sure to have gay characters are visible and part of Trek”. That says “agenda” to me. When I heard /read that NuSulu would not only be depicted as “gay”, but also will be a family man, with a gay husband, you know what the first thing that popped into my head? “Huh, neat”. That’s it. I’ve long accepted an openly gay character in ‘Trek because I am a fan of STAR TREK. You know, IDIC? Let’s not go “there”, friend. Okay?

So, to sum up, you interpret PEB’s strong positive feelings about inclusion and representation as an agenda over story (a seeming negative) despite the fact that you yourself seem quite pleased with the possibility as well.

I guess that’s OK, But this is equating his feelings with a process of creation/recreation he had nothing to do with.

Mirror Sulu certainly didn’t strike me as gay, but I suppose he could have been bi-.

Again, as we’re actually forced to think about this and revisit the character, I continue to ask what about his performance would have been different if he was gay or straight? And the answer I keep coming back to, is nothing. Sulu was such an underdeveloped character compared to every one of the other main characters, there’s no real basis for making the call either way. The default depiction of every character in the 1960s was straight, no matter how unrealistic that may have been. For instance, there was nothing straight about any of the “straight” characters Paul Lynde played. But as a kid, I never knew there was an alternative — he was just the funny uncle on Bewitched. But that stereotypical flamboyant behavior isn’t required to make a character gay. Sulu was almost always portrayed in his professional capacity, with few if any glimpses of his personal life, and none of his romantic life. With such a limited depiction of a character, and given the time period in which he existed, there’s no reason to think of Sulu any other way than straight. But that doesn’t mean the character ever was, despite what the actor thinks he may have been doing, and given the fact there’s not even anything to retcon in canon. So there’s absolutely no reason to not expand the character’s limited background in another direction than what was assumed of all TV characters created in the 1960s.

” The default depiction of every character in the 1960s was straight, no matter how unrealistic that may have been. ”

It’s not an unrealistic assumption at all, even to this day, based on current polling:

“The demographics of sexual orientation and gender identity in the United States have been more accurately studied in the social sciences in recent decades. In the first large-scale government survey measuring Americans’ sexual orientation, the NHIS reported in July 2014 that 1.6 percent of Americans identify as gay or lesbian, and 0.7 percent identify as bisexual.[1] In a Williams Institute review based on an June–September 2012 Gallup poll, approximately 3.4 percent of American adults identify themselves as being LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender).[2] An earlier report published in April 2011 by the Williams Institute estimated that 3.8 percent of Americans identified as gay/lesbian, bisexual, or transgender: 1.7 percent as lesbian or gay, 1.8 percent as bisexual, and 0.3 percent as transgender.”

Mirror Sulu was pretty lusty and scheming, there was more material there than about regular Sulu during the rest of the eps.

Great interview. And yes I wouldve loved to see that scene but its cool they just gave Sulu more than a passing line about being gay which I originally assumed they did. I get people dont like Sulu being gay but I think listening to Cho talk about it, it was done really nicely.

And what I find funny about all of this, the most ironic thing to come out of it is I think this is the most developed Sulu has been in 50 years lol. Its nice the guy gets SOME actual development finally instead of just being the cool pilot/Captain.

“Sulu and Ben’s daughter is assumed by many to be Demora Sulu, Hikaru Sulu’s daughter introduced in Star Trek: Generations. But, it’s not actually clear that this is the case in Beyond. When asked if the character’s name is explicitly Demora, Cho said, “I don’t think it is. I don’t remember whether there is a name.” So, who knows. We’ll have to wait until the next film to find out more about Sulu’s Kelvin daughter.”

You’d think after they made a big deal out of announcing that Kelvin Sulu was gay and had husband that they’d at least have given his husband and daughter names.

His husband is called Ben in one behind the scenes videos. I don’t remember that they gave a name for either of them in the movie. Just came back from seeing it.

If she is Demora, she’s likely born earlier than she was in the Prime timeline. Also, do we even know if Sulu had only one daughter named Demora? I do t think we do …

Well I just read an interview with Mr. Cho saying they cut out the scene of Sulu giving his husband a kiss. Looks like Star Trek still isn’t quite there yet with presenting gay characters the same as the straight ones. Sulu will be just another “safe” gay character that offends no one by not being authentically portrayed.

Disappointed about this.

It may well have been cut for reasons related to timing or story telling that had nothing to do with the kiss. True equity means that the kiss, per se, should not have been a reason to keep it in the film.

People who probably don’t have to grapple with issues of equality probably shouldn’t tell others what “real equality” is. Can’t you just give your opinion on why it was cut without bloviating to people?

SPOILERS AHEAD: I just came back from seeing the movie so don’t read on if you want to be surprised. All these discussions are completely out of proportion. In the movie, Sulu is the same character that he has always been. He is NOT suddenly the stereotypical gay guy you often see portrayed in the media. There is just one scene where he’s greeted by his daughter and his husband. Imagine being at the airport and seeing a family reuniting after one of them has been on a trip.

I know some “stereotypical gay dudes” and I think all of us are tired of male femininity being talked about as if it’s some kind of problem or deficiency. I’m fine with George Takei, John Cho, and their Sulus being “butch”. That’s a part of being in an action movie. But “sissy” Paul Lynde was every bit of a man no matter how much he sashayed.

Does this Star Trek Beyond teaser reveal Mr Sulu's husband and daughter?

AKA the franchise's first LGBTQ family.

Star Trek 's first LGBTQ family may have just been revealed in a new Korean trailer for the upcoming Star Trek Beyond.

You can briefly see the actress who has already been revealed as Sulu's daughter Demora being carried by a man (co-writer Doug Jung in a cameo role) wearing a wedding ring, hinting that this is the character's new family.

Sulu's family from new Star Trek Beyond trailer

To see for yourself, the moment comes 12 seconds into the trailer.

Earlier this week, it was revealed that the character, played by John Cho in the rebooted film franchise, is gay, with writer Simon Pegg adding that it is a sign of 'what he hoped were changing times'.

The decision was also made to honour the original Sulu actor George Takei, who is gay and also an outspoken champion of LGBTQ rights, but Takei later revealed that he was disappointed in the choice and had lobbied against the move.

"I'm delighted that there's a gay character," he said. "Unfortunately, it's a twisting of Gene's creation, to which he put in so much thought. I think it's really unfortunate."

George Takei as Mr Sulu in Star Trek

Pegg has since responded to Takei's comments, and said that he "respectfully disagrees" with the actor.

"We could have introduced a new gay character, but he or she would have been primarily defined by their sexuality, seen as the 'gay character', rather than simply for who they are, and isn't that tokenism?" he wrote.

"Justin Lin, Doug Jung  and I loved the idea of it being someone we already knew because the audience have a pre-existing opinion of that character as a human being, unaffected by any prejudice."

Star Trek Beyond will be released in US and UK cinemas on July 22. Watch a trailer below:

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Star Trek: 5 Things You Didn’t Know About Sulu

Despite Sulu's rich history in multiple forms of media, there are still some things about him that even the biggest Star Trek fans might not know.

Even though the main focus in the original series of Star Trek was on the trio of Kirk, Spock, and McCoy, Hikaru Sulu, played by George Takei, is just as important. As the ship's helmsman, Sulu helped save the Enterprise and its crew on more than one occasion. He's highly proficient at his job, but also friendly and kind toward others, making him one of the more popular crew members.

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The series never gave much space to Sulu's private life, but a few episodes did place him in a more important position. Sulu didn't just appear in the original series either, but also in the renewed Star Trek movie series, in which John Cho plays him. Despite Sulu's rich history in multiple forms of media, there are still some things about him that even the biggest Star Trek fans might not know.

5 Sulu Almost Didn't Appear In The Original Star Trek Movies

Sulu in Star Trek The Wrath of Khan

After his initial appearance in Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979), George Takei was hesitant about appearing in the sequel, Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan (1982). In the end, he changed his mind when William Shatner, who played Captain Kirk , called George Takei and persuaded him to join the cast.

Takei did, and he appeared in the rest of the original movies as well. Fans of the original crew will no doubt agree that the movies just wouldn't have been the same without Hikaru Sulu!

4 His Date Of Birth

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Unlike other Star Trek characters, Sulu doesn't have a set date of birth. What is known is that he studied piloting at the Starfleet Academy. Sulu then went on to join the starship Enterprise under Captain Kirk's command in 2265.

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When he joined the crew, he was 29, which means he was most likely born in 2236, making him three years younger than Captain Kirk, six years younger than Spock, and a whole nine years younger than Doctor McCoy. Interestingly enough, having been born in 1937, George Takei is also the youngest actor of the original main crew, with William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy being both born in 1931 .

3 Sulu's Various Hobbies

Sulu in The Naked Time

Even though his work as the ship's helmsman took up a lot of his time, Sulu also had interesting hobbies. He was fond of antique firearms and loved fencing. He proved this when he chased the crewmen around with his sword in the episode The Naked Time ! This episode is also George Takei's favorite Star Trek episode .

In his spare time, Sulu enjoyed exercising and practicing martial arts. He was also an accomplished botanist and had his own botanic garden on the ship, taking careful care of all the plants. One particular hobby that both Sulu and Captain Picard had was enjoying a good hot cup of tea. While Sulu's hobbies rarely ever had a significant impact on the plot of the series, they presented ample opportunities to learn even more about his character.

2 His Romantic Relationships And Family

Star Trek Demora Sulu

Captain Kirk was the one who had the most romances in the original series. The series hinted at the fact that Sulu was attracted to Uhura several times, both in the original and in the evil mirror universe, but nothing seemed to have happened between them. In one of the Star Trek novels, Sulu had a long-term relationship with a fellow officer Mai Duyen Trinh, but she later died during an accident, something Sulu had a hard time coming to terms with. His other interest in the lesser-known characters in the series and movies didn't lead anywhere either.

However, unlike other members of the crew, Sulu did become a father when his daughter Demora was born sometime in the 2270s. Demora followed in her father's footsteps and also became a helmsman. It hasn't been specified who Demora's mother is in the movies, but other Star Trek stories call the mother Susan Ling or Yoshika Sulu. As for Demora, not only did she work as a helmsman on the Enterprise, but she eventually went on to become a captain of the ship Enterprise-B!

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Sulu doesn't just have a daughter in the original movies either, but also in the Abrams universe where John Cho portrays him . In Star Trek Beyond (2016), Sulu briefly appears accompanied by his husband and their young daughter. Considering the daughter's age, it looks like Sulu and his husband have been together for years and in the brief scene the three characters share, they come across as a happy family. This version of Sulu is also supposed to have a sister named Yuki, at least according to a Star Trek comic book storyline. Yuki is also serving on the Enterprise, but as an engineering officer.

1 His Life Before Starfleet

Sulu drinks tea on the deck of the Excelsior Star Trek VI The Undiscovered Country

The movies never provided as many details about Sulu as subsequent novels and other Star Trek forms of media did. As such, there are plenty of small details about Sulu that those who only watched the show and the movies might not be familiar with. In one novel, for example, it's stated that Sulu's full name is Hikaru Kato Sulu.

Interestingly enough, Sulu's first name didn't appear in Star Trek movies until 1991 and the movie Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country even though the original series first aired in the 1960s! Another source material claims that Sulu's middle name wasn't Kato, but instead, Walter. Sulu's place of birth is similarly contested. He could have been born in Los Angeles, in Hawaii, or even on Alpha Mensa V. In the end, it's up to each fan to decide which name they like most for Sulu.

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Sulu's Husband And Daughter Appear In New "Star Trek Beyond" Trailer

It's already been revealed that Hikaru Sulu will be shown as an out gay man in the upcoming Star Trek Beyond . But a new Korean trailer for the movie seems to give us a glimpse of the Enterprise helmsman's husband and daughter.

As crowds of people run from an unknown threat, we see a quick shot of what reports are calling Sulu's husband holding their young daughter. (The man is actually Beyond co-writer Doug Jung in a cameo role.)

Sulu's daughter, Demora, has appeared as an adult in the film Star Trek Generations , so the scene could be bringing the Star Trek mythos full-circle.

George Takei, who played Sulu on the original TV series and subsequent films, said he was disappointed in the decision to have Sulu be gay because it wasn't in line with creator Gene Roddenberry's vision for the character.

"Unfortunately, it's a twisting of Gene's creation, to which he put in so much thought," said Takei, a vocal LGBT activist. I think it's really unfortunate."

Simon Pegg, who wrote the script for Beyond and co-stars as Scotty, says he "respectfully disagrees" with Takei.

"We could have introduced a new gay character, but he or she would have been primarily defined by their sexuality, seen as the 'gay character', rather than simply for who they are. And isn't that tokenism?"

Man has a point.

Below, watch the Korean trailer for Star Trek Beyond , beaming into theaters on July 22.

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Ben (23rd century)

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Ben was a 23rd century male Human who was married to Starfleet officer Lieutenant Hikaru Sulu . Ben looked after their daughter on Starbase Yorktown .

He and the child greeted Sulu when the USS Enterprise helmsman visited the base in 2263 . Later, during Krall 's attack , he ran from the destruction carrying their daughter in his arms. After the attack was foiled, Ben attended James T. Kirk 's 30th birthday party with his husband. ( Star Trek Beyond )

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Ben was portrayed by Star Trek Beyond co-writer Doug Jung . This character was only named in the source's end credits.

The idea for Sulu having a husband and daughter originated from Simon Pegg . [1]

Sulu actor John Cho insisted that Sulu's husband be of Asian descent, stating, " The reason was that I grew up with some gay Asian male friends. You don't really see Asian men together very often. It's very rare in life. I've always felt that there was some extra cultural shame to having two Asian men together, because it was so difficult to come out of the closet, so difficult to be gay and Asian, that they couldn't really bring themselves... It's easier to run away from people that look like your family. I wanted the future to be where it was completely normal and therefore, aside from the gender, they look like a traditional heterosexual couple. So that relationship, to me, the optics of it are that it looks very traditional on the one hand and very radical on the other. " [2]

Doug Jung described playing Ben as " the really uncomfortable experience of being on a screen with incredibly good-looking, fit people, and not being one of them. " Laughing, he added, " I don't recommend it. " ( Star Trek Magazine Movie Special 2016 , p. 91) In a more serious mood, Jung elaborated about the role (which was his first acting appearance), " It sort of came up as a last minute thing. There was an actor they had cast in Dubai – and it is really hard to cast in Dubai, because there are not a lot of local actors – and he fell out for whatever reason and Justin and Lindsey kind of said, 'Listen, if you'd be up for it, it would be great. Cho's up for it.' I was self-conscious about just being up on the screen [....] But Cho's amazing just in the way we talked about it, and how Justin wanted to [portray] it, and how everyone wanted to portray it. It was great to do and I was really proud to be able to do it, because it's not often you get to put your money where your mouth is and it's something we all believed in so strongly. " [3]

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Demora Sulu

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Demora Sulu was a Starfleet officer and daughter of Hikaru Sulu and Susan Ling ( TOS novel: The Captain's Daughter ), born in 2271 . At the rank of ensign , she served at the helm of the USS Enterprise -B , beginning in 2293 , under the command of Captain John Harriman .

During the christening ceremony of the Enterprise -B, Sulu met James T. Kirk for the first time since 2281 . During her introduction, she noted to Kirk that she had heard some "interesting stories" about him from her father, and he assured her that he was glad she was there, saying "It wouldn't be the Enterprise without a Sulu at the helm". ( Star Trek Generations )

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Demora eventually became the first officer of the Enterprise -B under Captain Harriman, holding the rank of Commander by 2310 . When Harriman transferred from starship duty after the Tomed Incident of 2311 , Demora was promoted to Captain, and assumed command of the Enterprise . ( Star Trek: The Lost Era novel Serpents Among the Ruins )

Some years after assuming command of the Enterprise -B, Captain Sulu took some leave time to care for her paternal grandmother, Shimizu Hana. ( Tales from the Captain's Table anthology: "Iron and Sacrifice")

Orion Press [ ]

Demora Sulu was born in De Koog, the Netherlands, European Hegemony in late 2271. Hikaru Sulu and her mother, both in Starfleet Intelligence , did not renew their three-year marriage contract.

She was inspired to join Starfleet after the Kelvan War but initially failed the Academy entrance exam. She was unable to handle it, got drunk, and found herself in an embarrassing position that her father was witness to. ( Chekov's Enterprise )

Peter Kirk and Demora became friends because they both knew what it was like to live in the shadow of famous relatives. During her final year at the Academy, Peter was a guest lecturer in exobiology . (" Incident ")

Demora made the mistake of speaking "off the record" to an unscrupulous reporter stationed aboard the Enterprise -B in 2294 . Her remarks became part of a news broadcast, and she was subsequently reprimanded by Captain Pavel Chekov . ( Chekov's Enterprise)

Demora Sulu died in 2295 from a seizure brought on by an alien organism. (" Freefall ", Waiting on Serenidad , " Robbie ")

Star Trek: New Voyages [ ]

While she held the rank of lieutenant , Demora had a daughter, whom she named Alana after the half-sister from another timeline about whom her father told her. ( Star Trek: New Voyages : " World Enough and Time ")

Star Trek: Omega Force [ ]

Lieutenant Irina Nielsen considered Demora her idol during her time at Starfleet Academy . ( Team Chipmunk: The Next Generation vs. Star Trek: Omega Force : " Beyond the Edge of Forever ")

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  • Demora Sulu article at Memory Alpha , the canon Star Trek wiki.
  • Demora Sulu article at Memory Beta , the non-canon Star Trek wiki.
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Hikaru Sulu

In 2290, Sulu assumed command of the starship Excelsior and began a three-year mission charting gaseous anomalies in the Beta Quadrant. Because of this proximity to the Klingon Empire he was instrumental in saving the U.S.S. Enterprise from destruction by dissidents who were out to destroy the Khitomer peace conference.

After a full career he was still on active patrol on the Cardassian border as a captain at age 113 in 2350, where he agreed to sponsor young Chakotay from Dorvan V for Starfleet Academy after befriending the youth.

Sulu was an active hobbyist with interests including fencing, botany, and the martial arts of his native culture; in fact, when the helmsman was infected with the Psi 3000 virus in 2366 he threatened the bridge with his foil. Another of Sulu's hobbies was old-style hand guns, although he had never managed to find a "Police Special" for his collection. He is also an accomplished pilot of craft from many eras and cultures, piloting with little warm-up both an antique 20th century Earth helicopter and a Klingon Bird-of-Prey.

He has a daughter, Demora, who attended Starfleet Academy and served as the first helm officer of the Excelsior-class U.S.S. Enterprise under Capt. John Harriman, when Kirk met his untimely death due to the Nexus Ribbon in 2293.

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Star trek's mr. sulu history in tos, movies & beyond explained.

Since his introduction in Star Trek: The Original Series, Hikaru Sulu has had a long and varied career in the franchise, appearing in many projects.

Star Trek 's Mr. Sulu (George Takei) remains one of the franchise's most popular and enduring characters, with an extensive history explored over the years. First introduced in Star Trek: The Original Series , Sulu is mainly remembered as the helmsman of the USS Enterprise under the command of Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner). Although he acted as a supporting character during TOS , Sulu was integral to the show's main cast, specifically because of his role as a bridge officer on the Enterprise which often put him in the thick of the action during an episode's main storyline.

As a Japanese-American character on television in the 1960s, Sulu was a big part of the vision of greater diversity that Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry worked to incorporate into The Original Series . This combined with George Takei's excellent acting skills cemented Sulu's popularity throughout TOS and the six feature films that followed the show. It also ensured that Sulu would go on to appear in other projects as Star Trek continued to grow, with the franchise adding more and more to his legacy even in the modern era.

Mr. Sulu In Star Trek: The Original Series & Movies

George Takei as Sulu in Star Trek

While not present in the Star Trek: The Original Series ' unaired pilot "The Cage", Mr. Sulu did appear in the second pilot "Where No Man Has Gone Before", which ended up airing as the third episode in TOS 's first season. "Where No Man Has Gone Before" depicted Sulu as part of the Enterprise's science division, but subsequent episodes changed his role to that of helmsman, also granting him the rank of Lieutenant. Although rarely given a starring role, Sulu often stole the show during dramatic moments, such as his famous sword-fighting scene in season 1, episode 4 "The Naked Time".

Sulu was present for all six of the movies featuring the cast of Star Trek: The Original Series , where he had some especially memorable moments during the crew's adventures. While still acting mostly as a supporting character, Sulu was integral to the plot arc depicted from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan through Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. Sulu helped Kirk steal the Enterprise in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock and piloted the Klingon ship to the future in The Voyage Home . He also finally received a first name, Hikaru, on-screen during Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country .

The most significant updates to Sulu during the TOS films, however, were the promotions he received. Sometime before the beginning of Star Trek: The Motion Picture , Sulu was promoted to Lieutenant Commander, and by The Wrath of Khan , he was a full Commander. The biggest promotion came in The Undiscovered Country , which revealed that Sulu had been made Captain and given his own ship, the USS Excelsior. Although The Undiscovered Country only explored a fraction of the Excelsior's adventures under his command, Captain Sulu would go on to make a couple more significant appearances in the franchise.

Captain Sulu In Star Trek: Voyager & Lower Decks

Tim Russ, Kate Mulgrew, and George Takei as Tuvok, Janeway and Sulu in Star Trek

After the end of the TOS films, it would be quite some time before Mr. Sulu once again appeared in the Star Trek franchise. While characters like Kirk, Spock (Leonard Nimoy), and Montgomery Scott (James Doohan) guest starred in episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation and subsequent movies, Sulu wouldn't be seen again until Star Trek: Voyager season 3, episode 2, "Flashback". The episode not only provided some never-before-seen moments of Captain Sulu during the events of Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country but also connected one of Voyager 's main characters to Sulu in a surprising way.

"Flashback" revealed that Voyager's Vulcan security officer, Tuvok (Tim Russ) , had served under Captain Sulu on the Excelsior during The Undiscovered Country . Through a mind-meld, Tuvok and Captain Janeway (Kate Mulgrew) relived Tuvok's interactions with Sulu and his participation in a battle with the Klingons during the film. Although Sulu's scenes in "Flashback" were set during events that had already taken place in the TOS films, they did provide a closer look at what the Excelsior was like under Sulu's command, and what he was like as Captain.

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The final appearance of George Takei's Captain Sulu came in Star Trek: Lower Decks season 3, episode 8, "Crisis Point 2: Paradoxus". During the episode, Ensign Brad Boimler (Jack Quaid) hallucinated meeting Captain Sulu at Kirk's Idaho ranch after passing out from severe dehydration during a holodeck adventure. Although the hallucination didn't last long, Sulu gave Boimler some sage advice when he admitted he was struggling with the nature of life and death. In typical Lower Decks fashion, Sulu's cameo served as a humorous callback to other parts of the franchise.

Mr. Sulu In J.J. Abrams' Star Trek Movies

John Cho As Hikaru Sulu In Star Trek 2009

J.J. Abrams's Star Trek reboot films brought back the characters from Star Trek: The Original Series for the modern era, exploring alternate reality versions of them in their younger years. John Cho was cast as Mr. Sulu in Star Trek (2009) and reprised the role in Star Trek: Into Darkness and Star Trek: Beyond . Cho's Sulu continued to have about the same level of involvement in the main storyline as Takei's Sulu, acting as a supporting character to Kirk (Chris Pine), Spock (Zachary Quinto), and Dr. McCoy (Karl Urban).

The reboot films did make one major change to Sulu's character, however. Star Trek: Beyond depicted Sulu as gay , showing his husband and daughter briefly at the beginning of the film. This change was intended as a tribute to George Takei, himself a gay man and a vocal advocate for LGBTQIA+ rights. The decision, however, sparked controversy among the audience including Takei, igniting a debate about whether changing Sulu's character so significantly was right. While it remains controversial, Sulu's scene with his family in Beyond was at least a moment of positive representation in the film.

Despite the controversy surrounding Star Trek Beyond , the reboot version of Sulu was overall a fitting tribute to the character's origins while still allowing Cho the freedom to make the role his own. It also added another layer of complexity to Sulu's history in the Star Trek franchise, showing that along with the rest of the TOS crew, Sulu was still important to many. While not much has been done with him since then, Star Trek always leaves the possibility open for characters to reappear down the line, something that could certainly still happen for a character as iconic as Hikaru Sulu.

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Star Trek: The Original Series' Eddie Paskey was more than just a background character

Eddie Paskey , who passed away in 2021, was only credited one time as a particular character on Star Trek: The Original Series even though he appeared in 57 episodes over the course of three seasons (more than Walter Koenig and George Takei) and often portrayed Lt. Leslie. His background story has been addressed in follow-up Star Trek comics, according to Slashfilm , but he wasn't given a story onscreen. His purpose was a background character and William Shatner's double and stand-in, but his time onscreen gave him more.

Paskey had appeared in several episodes of The Original Series' season one before Captain Kirk finally addressed him by name, calling him "Mr. Leslie." And that name wasn't just something one of the writers pulled out of a hat. It was an homage to one of Shatner's daughters, Leslie. And it was through the course of the episodes, even though he wasn't a main star, that he became a friend of Shatner's as he mentioned in a 2016 Startrek.com interview.

"I was very fortunate because any time they could use us to fill the frame, they did. It was fun. I enjoyed what I was doing every day and was very lucky because I became a friend of William Shatner — I was his double and stand-in, and that was a fun deal. The character was called Lieutenant Leslie, but of course Bill called me Mister Leslie. I was named after his eldest daughter." Eddie Paskey

Unfortunately, back pain and cluster headaches that were made worse by the set lighting forced Paskey to leave Star Trek before the series ended. He did, however, consider auditioning for Star Trek: The Motion Picture but changed his mind. It would have been great, though, to have seen Lt. Leslie, perhaps a commander by then, show up in some of the later Star Trek movies. Fans still appreciated his commitment to the series, and he was always welcomed at Star Trek conventions.

This article was originally published on redshirtsalwaysdie.com as Star Trek: The Original Series' Eddie Paskey was more than just a background character .

Star Trek: The Original Series' Eddie Paskey was more than just a background character

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