In Other News… Brian Is Gay in Warp 11 and It’s Not a Big Deal.

The news comes from the Australian paper the Herald Sun, which says that the movie—rightfully—treats Sulu’s private life, in which he has a male partner and a child, as no big deal. According to John Cho, the decision was of course a nod to the original Sulu, everyone’s favorite Facebooking dad, George Takei. “I liked the approach, which was not to make a big thing out it, which is where I hope we are going as a species, to not politicize one’s personal orientations,” Cho told the Herald Sun.

A LGBTQ+ main character has been missing from Star Trek for decades (depending on how you characterize Jadzia Dax’s relationship with the love of one of Dax’s former lives in “Rejoined”). But no such complicated background is at issue here. Sulu’s gay and no one in the Star Trek universe judges him for it.

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