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George Takei Not Happy That Sulu’s a Ghey

July 8, 2016 by V the K

The new Star Trek movie will contain a “shocking reveal” that Lt. Sulu is gay. Isn’t that quaint? And by quaint I mean, every lazy and hackneyed. That’s what Hollywood is.

George Takei, who originated the role of Lt. Sulu and is usually totally down with Social Juicebox bullcrap isn’t happy, because he finds the idea of a gay Lt. Sulu lazy and hackneyed.

“I’m delighted that there’s a gay character,” said Takei. “Unfortunately, it’s a twisting of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry’s creation, into which he put so much thought. I think it’s really unfortunate.”

Takei said that he had expressed his concerns immediately on hearing of the plot development, which involves the revelation that, as well as a daughter, Sulu has a same-sex partner.

The actor reportedly encouraged the film-makers to be “imaginative and create a character who has a history of being gay, rather than Sulu, who had been straight all this time, suddenly being revealed as being closeted”.

 

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Another casualty of the JJ Abrams alternate timeline.

 

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Comments

  1. Joe says

    July 8, 2016 at 7:56 am - July 8, 2016

    Will this guy ever just go away! He’s so irrelevant.

  2. Ilíon says

    July 8, 2016 at 8:32 am - July 8, 2016

    If they’re gonna do it right, shouldn’t the Sulu character be “reimagined” as a wheel-chair bound 600-lb blind black lesbian?

  3. Ilíon says

    July 8, 2016 at 8:34 am - July 8, 2016

    Make Kirk ghey … who would really be surprised at that “revelation”?

  4. ILoveCapitalism says

    July 8, 2016 at 9:24 am - July 8, 2016

    I’m over Star Trek. As a grownup, I finally “got it” that its vision of the future is deeply collectivist, dictatorial (one “good” viewpoint), militarized and racist (e.g., the endless race-war storylines). Hitler and Mussolini would be fans, and it’s no accident that so many modern left-wingers are.

  5. Ted B. (Charging Rhino) says

    July 8, 2016 at 11:46 am - July 8, 2016

    It’s actually hypocrisy…and self-interest. Special Snowflake has had his feelings hurt — and his wallet impacted.

    By making Sulu gay in-canon, John Cho is now the iconic-face of GLB in Trekkie-world, not George*. John will now get all the media attention and the speaking engagement invites (and lucrative appearance fees) John and Zachary will get all the geeky convention attention.

    * – George is now a soon-forgotten footnote. Bwahhahhahhahhahah!!

  6. Paul says

    July 8, 2016 at 12:01 pm - July 8, 2016

    ILoveCapitalism: As a libertarian, Star Wars is more appealing to me anyway.

  7. CrayCrayPatriot says

    July 8, 2016 at 12:39 pm - July 8, 2016

    John Cho playing gay is pretty hot. Hopefully, he’ll start getting more predominant roles in films. Hollywood is pretty slow to showcase Asian-Americans in film.

  8. Ilíon says

    July 8, 2016 at 1:30 pm - July 8, 2016

    “4.I’m over Star Trek. As a grownup, I finally “got it” that …”

    I had figured that out when I was a kid and the original series was on the air.

  9. Ted B. (Charging Rhino) says

    July 8, 2016 at 1:44 pm - July 8, 2016

    Congratulations, George Takei.
    You’re this Month’s Winner of the Sutcliffe-Best Award.

  10. ILoveCapitalism says

    July 8, 2016 at 4:42 pm - July 8, 2016

    Star Wars has its problems too, but….Now that I think about it, both the Jedi and the Sith have a remarkably couldn’t-care-less attitude toward race. The continually-rehashed plots are *not* inter-stellar race wars. So yeah, Star Wars has that!

  11. perturbed says

    July 8, 2016 at 4:50 pm - July 8, 2016

    He had a daughter in the original film canon (she was Enterprise B helmsman in “Generations”) so that is fine by me if it’s in the reboot universe. But the original actor allusion gay thing is just lazy writing.

  12. Steve says

    July 8, 2016 at 7:52 pm - July 8, 2016

    The problem is they should have asked him first since there is a subtle insult to his acting ability if Sulu was in the closet the whole time.

  13. Jonathan G says

    July 8, 2016 at 10:08 pm - July 8, 2016

    To be fair, this is in an alternate universe so the main timeline remains unaffected. The new TV show that Kurtzman and Orci are behind is suppose to take place in the original continuity somewhere between Undiscovered Country and TNG. Still, like George T. said it’s lazy and unnecessary. Why didn’t they just create an entirely new character who was gay? To pivot a bit, there’s been a slew of gay characters introduced in Star Wars continuity. I’m totally fine with that cause they use new and original characters rather than lazily going back and making say Han or Luke gay (well the former wouldn’t make any bit sense anyway as Han Solo is clearly heterosexual since the beginning). Anyways this is just pure laziness and nothing more.

  14. Peter Hughes says

    July 8, 2016 at 10:16 pm - July 8, 2016

    Geoge Takei needs to just shut his lame-ass acting self up and quit trying to be relevant when everyone else has just moved on.com already.

    Period.

    Regards,
    Peter H.

  15. Sathar says

    July 9, 2016 at 1:00 am - July 9, 2016

    To be fair, this is in an alternate universe so the main timeline remains unaffected.

    What happens in Bizarro World…

  16. Church Mouse Republican says

    July 9, 2016 at 5:57 am - July 9, 2016

    JJ Abrahms screwed up the Force Awakens by telling The New Hope over again so why should this be a surprise to anyone.

    As a gay man, I do not need to see a gay character in film to validate myself.

  17. Peter Hughes says

    July 9, 2016 at 1:01 pm - July 9, 2016

    As a gay man, I do not need to see a gay character in film to validate myself.

    +1000. That’s also why I refer to the so-called gay pride day as “Rabid Heterophobia Day.”

    Regards,
    Peter H.

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