Why Sulu’s husband is Asian in ‘Star Trek Beyond’

John Cho, who is back as Sulu in the new Star Trek movie, has told RTÉ Entertainment that he hopes George Takei, who played the USS Enterprise helmsman in the original series, will come to appreciate why the character is portrayed as gay in the new film.

Another topic we wanted to discuss was with Urban, and was on his role in the forthcoming Thor: Ragnarok. “The decision to not shoot the script they had, that they were developing and had spent money on, came quite late and it was in January of 2015 that we began working on a blank page”.

Earlier in July, the Australia-based Herald Sun reported that Hikaru Sulu, played by John Cho, would havea husband and a daughter in “Star Trek Beyond”.

Summer 2016 is about to be dominated by Star Trek fever as we celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the iconic sci-fi franchise and ramp up to the release of the new feature film Star Trek Beyond and more news continues to trickle in surrounding Bryan Fuller’s upcoming CBS digital television Star Trek series due next year.

“There was a kiss that I think is not there any more”, he said in an interview with Vulture. I was concerned also that there might be Asian-American backlash.

Talking to avclub he says, “I was concerned for a few reasons”.

“I thought it was great. Doug may have to play him!” I was like, ‘Haha.’ And then at some point they were not joking. The production was having trouble finding someone in Dubai willing to take on the role, Cho said. We had a guy and then his parents really objected.

The 79-year-old actor said that he learned about his character’s new sexuality after a receiving a phone call from Cho.

Basically it was a little Valentine to the gay Asian friends that I grew up with.

“I always felt it was harder being gay and Asian than any other combination. The message of Star Trek, if there is one, seems to be that we should try to live up to the very best that we’re capable of.Star Trek seems to be an appeal to our better nature, the side of ourselves that works toward peace and cooperation and understanding and knowledge and yearns to seek out knowledge rather than the side that wants to divide and control one another”. “I don’t know if that hit or not, but it was something that I felt in my gut and asked for that”.