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  • aeronmelon@lemmy.worldtoRisa@startrek.websiteAn important reminder
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    1 month ago

    Yes, it was about being gay or straight. Kelvin Sulu was given a husband in honor of George Takei… an honor he rebuked because he felt they only changed the character for cheap representation points. He insisted that even though he is gay, the Sulu he portrayed is straight. (In Generations, Sulu is married and has a daughter, Demora, who helmed the Enterprise-B.)

    Personally, I feel like since John Cho’s Sulu is a different person in a different universe (and Cho himself is cool being a straight Korean playing a gay Japanese) Takei didn’t need to get so angry about it.

    We do exist.

    Please don’t assume that I thought otherwise just because I didn’t explicitly mention every potentiality in that one post.



  • aeronmelon@lemmy.worldtoRisa@startrek.websiteAn important reminder
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    1 month ago

    Serious observation, Prime Sulu is straight and Kelvin Sulu is gay (there was a whole brou ha ha about that with George Takei when Beyond came out). So there is a possibility of orientation deviation (heh) between timelines if they stray far enough from each other.

    In the case of the Mirror Universe, I think it’s strictly a “same exact people but in different situations” thing. Even while it was still on the air, I assumed Prime Kira was closeted and that was part of why none of her relationships worked out.






  • aeronmelon@lemmy.worldtoRisa@startrek.websiteLogical. Flawlessly logical.
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    3 months ago

    Oh the irony that this quote is in response to the negative criticism of the Kelvin movies.

    Even if those movies had not been fun, even if they had not birthed a new generation of Star Trek fans that went on to discover the classics and literally revived the Star Trek franchise, even if they had not been genuinely interesting stories unto themselves… they allowed Leonard Nimoy to reprise his role as Spock one last time, they allowed Majel Barrett to reprise her role as the voice of the ship’s computer one last time.

    So, for those reasons, I am glad we got them how we did and when we did. Star Trek might still be shelved otherwise.