{"id":93553,"date":"2016-07-07T14:31:07","date_gmt":"2016-07-07T14:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/07\/07\/sulu-revealed-to-be-gay-in-star-trek-beyond\/"},"modified":"2016-07-07T14:31:07","modified_gmt":"2016-07-07T14:31:07","slug":"sulu-revealed-to-be-gay-in-star-trek-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/07\/07\/sulu-revealed-to-be-gay-in-star-trek-beyond\/","title":{"rendered":"Sulu Revealed to Be Gay in \u2018Star Trek Beyond\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/whitelaws.tumblr.com\/post\/147043447317\" target=\"_blank\">whitelaws<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cHelmsman of the USS Enterprise, Hikaru Sulu, played by John Cho, is shown in Star Trek Beyond as the loving father of a daughter with a same sex partner. And in typical trailblazing Trek fashion \u2014 it\u2019s just not a big deal.<\/p>\n<p>Cho visited Sydney to promote the third movie in the franchise successfully rebooted by JJ Abrams in 2009, along with cast mates Chris Pine (Captain Kirk), Zachary Quinto (Spock), Karl Urban (Dr McCoy) and director Justin Lin. He said the decision by writer Simon Pegg and Lin to make Sulu gay was a nod to George Takei, who played the character in the original 1960s series, and was a sign of what he hoped were changing times.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/entertainment\/movies\/star-trek-beyond-favourite-mr-sulu-has-come-out-as-castmates-reflect-on-the-death-of-anton-yelchin\/news-story\/51909410e4e465f825470c4dfbcc17ec?utm_source=dlvr.it&amp;utm_medium=twitter\" target=\"_blank\">THIS IS AN ACTUAL LEGITIMATE THING GUYS I\u2019M SCREAMING<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>whitelaws: \u201cHelmsman of the USS Enterprise, Hikaru Sulu, played by John Cho, is shown in Star Trek Beyond as the loving father of a daughter with a same sex partner. And in typical trailblazing Trek fashion \u2014 it\u2019s just not a big deal. Cho visited Sydney to promote the third movie in the franchise successfully &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/07\/07\/sulu-revealed-to-be-gay-in-star-trek-beyond\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sulu Revealed to Be Gay in \u2018Star Trek Beyond\u2019&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[74,19],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93553"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}