He told The Hollywood Reporter, ““I’m delighted that there’s a gay character. And it became an issue.”Īctor George Takei, who played the original Sulu in Star Trek: The Original Series opposed making Sulu gay. And we kind of wanted it to be not an issue which is why we made it Sulu. This is a world where acceptance is total and all that kind of thing is not an issue. He then added, “And also, it also felt very…I mean who knows what we all are. You might know someone for a few years and they say ‘Oh by the way there’s this as well.’ And we thought that was good.” Pegg continued, “We thought it would be interesting to have a character who you already knew as is often the case when a society actually feel…who feel they can’t come forward and be honest about themselves. And then you know you have to set them up and then you have to say ‘Oh by the way I am gay.’ And it’s like well why?” Introducing a character because of their sexuality felt a little bit too pandering. Why don’t we change his sexual orientation because that would be good to do that with a character we already know. Simon Pegg explained the decision on SiruisXM radio. Sulu is shown in a relationship with another man and having a daughter. If Goldsman and company do intend to pursue this it wouldn’t be too surprising and follows Star Trek’s retconning of Hikaru Sulu into a gay man in director Justin Lin and writer Simon Pegg’s Star Trek: Beyond film. Daniel Richtman #BlackLivesMatter June 13, 2020 Heard they are toying with the idea of making Kirk bi in the new series The rumor comes from scooper Daniel Richtman who wrote on Twitter, “Heard they are toying with the idea of making Kirk bi in the new series.” Kirk in the show as well as making him bisexual. While Goldsman indicated the show would embrace more “classical” ‘Trek’ values” a new rumor details Goldsman and company are tossing around the idea of including James T. Related: Akiva Goldsman Discusses His Vision For Star Trek: Strange New Worlds He elaborated, “I imagine it to be closer to the original series than even ‘DS9.'” But I think our plots will be more closed-ended than you’ve seen in either ‘Discovery’ or ‘Picard.'” He went on to explain how the show will embrace episodic storytelling, “Obviously, we will take advantage of the serialized nature of character and story building. Photo Cr: Ben Mark Holzberg/CBS© 2018 CBS Interactive. “New Eden” - Ep #202 – Pictured: Anson Mount as Captain Pike of the CBS All Access series STAR TREK: DISCOVERY.
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