Yeah. Star Trek: Generations establishes that Sulu has a daughter.
Yes, but there are gay parents out there. However, I do agree with the take of Sulu being straight.
Yeah. Star Trek: Generations establishes that Sulu has a daughter.
Takei says that he always thought of Sulu as being straight. Therefore Sulu is straight.Yes, but there are gay parents out there. However, I do agree with the take of Sulu being straight.
Takei says that he always thought of Sulu as being straight. Therefore Sulu is straight.
Takei says that he always thought of Sulu as being straight. Therefore Sulu is straight.
Tl;DR: it would never happen.
Tl;DR: it would never happen.
I don't believe it would have been a good move to make a TV series that takes place 90 years before TNG and is full of aged actors and characters the public had seen hundreds of times.
But, going along with it anyway, I imagine it could work out if they let the show go in different directions from the earlier series. Revisiting some of the sillier planets that were created in the 60s shouldn't be done too often. DS9 did it once, that I'm aware of, and it was played entirely for laughs.
Actually, the episode "This Side of Paradise" was originally written with Sulu having the love interest, but Leonard Nimoy convinced them to rewrite it for Spock because of the whole emotion-thing with the spores. It's probably circumstance more than anything else. (And did Uhura ever get a love interest either? I mean, apart from the salt monster posing as an attractive guy for like two minutes in "The Man Trap"? Being made to kiss Kirk under alien influence doesn't count as a love interest either.)He was the only one of the six male regulars with no love interests; even freaking Scotty had a few!
Again, that's for actual reasons that make sense in context. George Takei was annoyed that Sulu wasn't getting enough screen time in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home so he suggested to Harve Bennett that they include a scene in 1980s San Francisco of Sulu running into a small boy who happens to be his great-great-(etc.)-great-grandfather. The setting of San Francisco is simply because that's where Starfleet is based, as established seven years earlier in Star Trek: The Motion Picture. The scene unfortunately ended up being cut because the kid who would've played Sulu's ancestor had a horrendous stage mother who made it impossible to get any filming done, because the kid was too nervous to actually do anything with her bossing him around. Sad story.Then there are the movies - Sulu just happens to love San Francisco, now does he?
You do indeed; no argument here. The thing about subtext is that it's very personal and subjective, and open to interpretation and debate. I think there's enough there, cumulatively speaking, that there might have been a little bit of in-joking going on; you're taking everything at face value, which is the simplest explanation, and obviously the onus is on me to challenge the canon. Well, I won't. I don't want to be one of those people. We agree on what's relevant to the topic of discussion, and that's what counts.I know my Trek history.
(And did Uhura ever get a love interest either? I mean, apart from the salt monster posing as an attractive guy for like two minutes in "The Man Trap"? Being made to kiss Kirk under alien influence doesn't count as a love interest either.)
She did like Spock.
And the Sulu from the Mirror Universe? You know, the one where everyone is different from their normal selves? Well, would you look at that, he's blatantly heterosexual and lusting after Uhura like nobody's business.