You know who’s not happy about Sulu being turned gay? George Takei, the gay activist
The homosexual actor who played Star Trek character Hikaru Sulu on TV and in film is unhappy the latest movie makes the character homosexual, even though the writers intended it as a tribute to him. “I think it’s very unfortunate,” the original Sulu, George Takei, told the Hollywood Reporter, adding that he felt it sent the wrong message about sexuality, that a person could be homosexual at one point in his life and heterosexual in another. Takei revealed he had told both Pegg and the new movie’s director Justin Lin he wanted no such tribute. “I told him, ‘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.’” So embarrassed is co-screenwriter Simon Pegg, who also plays Scotty in the series of remakes, that he issued a formal statement, even resorting to the shakey multiverse theory to argue there was room for both his storyline and that preferred by Takei. “