#Lt. Hikaru Sulu

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Leapin' Lenin, they forgot Chekhov!

Actually, they didn't. They just couldn't afford him.

In fact, the budget for Star Trek: The Animated Series was so low that George (Sulu) Takei and Nichelle (Uhura) Nichols were not going to be hired, either. The plan was to have James (Scotty) Doohan and Majel (Chapel) Barrett-Roddenberry provide those characters' voices.

Leonard Nimoy put a stop to that as soon as he found out. He found it unconscionable that the two actors of color from the original series were not coming back. So he threatened NBC and the producers: hire Takei and Nichols, or I walk.

Obviously there could be no Star Trek without Spock, so his demands were met. But there wasn't enough money to bring Walter (Chekhov) Koenig back. Chekhov was replaced with the alien navigator Lieutenant Arex, who was voiced (as were many, many characters on the show) by Doohan.

The producers did manage to throw Koenig a bone: he was able to sell a script, The Infinite Vulcan, which was the seventh episode of the animated series' first season. This also made Koenig the first Star Trek actor to write an episode for the, then in its infancy, franchise.

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Star Trek: The Original Series main cast by Frank Kelly Freas.

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I'm not taking criticism at this time

[Description: A tiered meme format, titled: "Goin' to the home improvement store". Below this is a table, with one column listing various activities, and the other having pictures of characters from Star Trek: The Original Series, aligned to which activity they would partake in. They are as follows:

"Fell in the cacti display while wandering around the gardening section," with a picture of Sulu.

"Being yelled at by employees while frantically ascending the forbidden orange stairs," with two pictures, one of Spock and one of Kirk.

"Taking sick af selfies in the lighting section," with a picture of Yeoman Janice Rand.

"Shitting in the display toilets," with a picture of lieutenant Kevin Riley.

"Tokyo drifting one of those flatbed carts down the aisles," with a picture of Scotty.

"Lying on the fucken flatbed, holding on for dear life," with a picture of Pavel Chekov.

"Lovingly touching all the carpet samples," with a picture of Uhura.

"Stealing paint chips for aesthetic purposes," with a picture of Nurse Chapel.

"Just wanted some goddamn light bulbs but everyone ruined it," with a picture of Dr McCoy.

"In the car sleepin," with a picture of Captain Pike as he appeared in the episode The Menagerie.

/End Description]

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Are they a stoner? TOS edition

Kirk: This dude definitely drinks bong water. In the academy he was a D1 stoner, close to Picard levels but more of a drinker since he’s from Iowa. He probably knows how to use corn husk as rolling paper ngl…I imagine he doesn’t really indulge as a captain but when he goes on shore leave he probably lights up.

McCoy: Like most doctors he’s against smoking due to the health risks…HOWEVER, being from the south if he has a drink in his hand anything is fair game. But all in all, he’s mostly a drinker.

Spock: He never tried anything related to weed or smoking until he met Kirk. Who convinced him it would be illogical to not try hitting a bong at least once since, “first officers should always being looking to try new experiences.” He never smoked again after that…Until he became an ambassador (shit is stressful)

Uhura: She is definitely the type to host a girls night smoke session where they blast SZA and paint their nails. She rolls on pink and purple papers and mixes other herbs into blunts like lavender and rosemary for the calming effects. Definitely the best person on the ship to vibe with.

Sulu: He is the only guy allowed at the girls night because he brings great holodiscs to watch from his collection. He’s not much of a smoker, but he does like edibles so he is usually isn’t getting zooted unless he’s with Uhura.

Chekov: Bro has a bowl cut. I don’t think I need to elaborate, like OBVIOUSLY this kid does dabs for fun…He also believes weed was somehow invented in Russia? Dude is a FIEND.

Scotty: He seems like he would be the one to bet Kirk he won’t drink the bong water and then Kirk does. A party animal through and through, he can smell loud from the warp core and will transport himself into your quarters and make you share.

Nurse Chapel: She is always the sober(ish) one who makes sure everyone is drinking enough water and has snacks. She also developed a hypospray that prevents lung damage from smoking as a preventative treatment, opposed to the usual cell regeneration therapy most smokers on the Enterprise do. She makes the best special brownies for Uhura’s girls night! But only to make Uhura happy ;)

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All the Star Trek pilots are just a little bit unhinged and I respect the hell out of that. Sulu? Sword-carrying gun collector. Data? Dude literally walked into the ocean. Wesley? Special magic space boy. Paris? Flyboy stereotype extraordinaire. Mayweather? Almost died on screen from rock climbing. Ortegas? The great bird of the galaxy only knows what she'll get up to.

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Steve Yockey, co-creator of the Max series “The Flight Attendant,” is joining Starfleet as the new screenwriter for “Star Trek 4.”

Story details remain under a powerful cloaking device, but Paramount Pictures and Bad Robot still intend the project to be the final chapter for the cast that rebooted the franchise in movie theaters with 2009’s “Star Trek,” including Chris Pine (as Capt. James T. Kirk), Zachary Quinto (as Cmdr. Spock), Zoe Saldaña (as Lt. Nyota Uhura), Karl Urban (as Dr. Leonard McCoy), John Cho (as Lt. Hikaru Sulu) and Simon Pegg (as chief engineer Montgomery Scott). (Variety first reported the news in its cover story on the future of the “Star Trek” franchise.)

Bringing the cast back following 2016’s “Star Trek Beyond” has proven trickier for the studio than finding an altruistic Ferengi. At least three previous attempts fell apart for various reasons, most recently with director Matt Shakman (“WandaVision”) and screenwriters Lindsey Beer (“Sierra Burgess Is a Loser”) and Geneva Robertson-Dworet (“Captain Marvel”) that the studio had slated to open in late 2023. When Shakman left the film in 2022 to direct “The Fantastic Four” for Marvel Studios, however, Paramount pulled it from its slate and sent it back to spacedock.

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Lt Hikaru Sulu

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My friend sent me a post today about RPG classes for the TOS bridge crew, and while they were funny they were also so wrong that I was compelled to make my own list:

Captain James T. Kirk: Bard. But not in the "slutty rock star" way, in the "genuine renaissance man who can do at least a bit of everything" way. Kirk is the guy who read the entire player's guide cover to cover and built a character who would be the most useful in the widest array of situations.

Commander Spock: Monk. Everyone assumes he'd be a wizard, and I can see why because he's a scientist and he's terrifyingly intelligent, but this fails to account for the way that his strict "logic over emotion" ethic is so central to his character, or the fact that his wisdom score is at least as high as his int. He's also got pretty insane physical strength, and a lot of his abilities come from his meditative practices. Plus there's the psychic abilities he has, which I would put down as a kind of monk-magic.

Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy: World's angriest paladin. Refused to let everyone else run off without a healer. Is a healer in the way that makes you very aware that healers are all doms.

Lt. Commander Montgomery Scott: Artificer. Nuff said.

Lt. Hikaru Sulu: Bard, but the kind who's an acrobat. His job on the ship is pilot, and he's the best damn pilot in all of Starfleet. We don't see this as much in TOS, because they didn't have the ability to do cool scenes of the ships flying around, but Sulu could fly the Enterprise through a needle with room to spare.

Lt. Nyota Uhura: Another bard. She's the friggin comm's officer! That means she's a linguist and a radio operator (something people forget was an actually necessary and technically demanding job). She also canonically is a beautiful singer and dancer.

Ensign Pavel Chekov: Here's our wizard. Hear me out. Chekov is the ship's navigator (another job that seems to be somewhat forgotten in contemporary sci-fi). Everything he does is based on intelligence, he's a little bit of a nerpus (low wisdom), and he works off of careful study and calculation. My guy was doing calculations for interstellar space plans using something slightly more advanced than an old DOS computer.

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The Star Trek crew from 1969 to 1979.

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Please reblog for a larger sample size.

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Sulu, in full fencing regalia: There's nothing to be afraid of! I don't bite!

Chekov: Yeah, but do you stab?

Sulu:

Sulu: I don't bite.

source: @randomtwinkinthetomb

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Star Trek: The Animated Series 50th Anniversary Episode Review

Episode: The Time Trap

Season: 1

Episode: 12

Stardate: November 24, 1973

Original airdate: 5267.2 – 5267.6

Written by: Joyce Perry

Directed by: Hal Sutherland

Music by: Yvette Blais and Jeff Michaels

Executive producers: Lou Scheimer and Norm Prescott

Studio: Filmation Associates

Network: NBC

Series created by: Gene Roddenberry

Cast:

Captain James T. Kirk (voice by William Shatner)

Mr. Spock (voice by Leonard Nimoy)

Dr. Leonard “Bones” McCoy (voice by DeForest Kelly)

Lt. Uhura, Devna, Magen, Kali (voice by Nichelle Nichols)

Lt. Hikaru Sulu, Kuri, Klingon #1 (voice by George Takei)

Eng. Montgomery Scott, Kaz, Kor, Xerius, Gabler (voices by James Doohan)

Nurse Christine Chapel (voice by Majel Barrett)

Synopsis:

The crew of the USS Enterprise was assigned to survey a sector of the galaxy known as the Delta Triangle. More precisely, to research about the mysterious disappearance of a high number of starships on the region from ancient times.

Once there, the ship had a massive failiure of its sensors and to make the situtation worse, they were received by a squadron of three Klingon battlecruisers, Captain Kirk orders Lieutenant Sulu to fire phasers to the IKS Klothos. The shoots made point blank on the Klingonian vessel but it disappeared, not destroyed.

One commander of the remaining two Klingon ships blamed Kirk, but the captain decides to move forward to the same place the Klothos was at maximum warp speed. As closer it gets to the place, the ship's crew felt very dizzy by the effect of an ion storm. Suddenly, they were in a place the captain describes as “an interstellar Sargasso Sea” filled with a lot of centuries-old alien starships. One of them, the USS Bonaventure.

The Entrerprise had another encounter with the Klothos, but right at the moment both of the captains orders to attack their foes, they were suddenly transported to one of the ships. The one that gathers the Ruling Council of the area named Elysia. That council is composed of 123 races that learned to live peacefully over one thousand years. Every act of violence is punished severely. It is not a parallel universe, is a place with no stars nor planets, a place where time ceased to move, a pocket in the garment of time.

Captain Kirk and Captain Kor are facing charges of committing acts of violence and they are both facing a sentence of a hundred years of immobilization of their ships and crew. The council's leader, a Romulan named Xerius pardons both of the captains due to their ignorance of Elysia's law. They were turned back to their respective ships.

At the Ruling Council, an alien female with psionic powers named Magen perceived both of the crews from the Enterprise and the Klothos are planning to escape. Another of the Ruling Council members, an Orion slave girl named Devna was opposed to that idea because she deemed they will die and appealed to Xerius to stop them but the council's leader told her it does not infringe any of the Elysian's laws to try to escape from there.

At the Enterprise, Kirk tries to find the way to escape from there. He has to do something quickly before the disintegration of the dilithium crystals. The Klingons tried first, but they were unsuccessful. Spock devises a formula based on the failure of the Klingonian ship. He proposes Kirk a solution by linking both their ship and the one of their foes using both warp drives together as one.

During the gathering of both captains and first officers aboard the Klothos, Spock showed very friendly with the Klingons. It made Doctor McCoy very suspicious about the welfare of their first officer. He asks Kirk to talk with him about the subject and he agrees. Spock tells the captain that he felt the thoughts of the Klingonian officers and knows that although is not clear for him, they are planning something evil.

The Elysians celebrated a party for both Federation and Klingonian crews. After performing a dance, Devna told to the federation captain that she wanted to be on her home planet again but she thinks it is impossible to move out from this place and begs Kirk not to try. He told her that his home may not be perfect as Elysia, but it is his home no matter its imperfections. Also, during the feast, a Klingon officer started a fight with McCoy. Both ships' captains were on trial by the ruling council again as responsible for the conduct of their crews.

This time, Kirk begs pardon for Kor and his crew because they need them so much for their escape plan. Xerius understood Kirk's intentions and granted the way out of the punishment to the Klingons. During the trial, a female Klingonian officer named Kaz, put an explosive capsule in the warp drive control computer system of the Enterprise.

As the launch of both of the ships' begins, Magen perceived the sabotage to the federation's ship by their counterparts. And the council sends the message to Kirk. Spock throws out the capsule out of the ship before it explodes at warp 8. Both of the ships made their way out of Elysia. Kor takes all the credit for their success, but it is unimportant to Kirk.

Fascinating Facts:

This episode was written by actress and writer Joyce Perry. It was inspired by legend of the Bermuda Triangle. A region located between Bermuda, Florida and Puerto Rico. According to the myth, there was a lot of mysterious disappearance of ships and airplanes in that area. An urban legend very popular in the second half of the 20th century. It was the source of inspiration for many science fiction and fantasy works of that time.

Also, it is a mention of the Sargasso sea. A region in the north of the Atlantic Ocean that has an abundant brown seaweed called sargassum. It also bounded by four currents forming an ocean gyre.

This is the second time the Klingon character, Kor has appeared in a episode. The first time was in a season one episode, “Errand Of Mercy”. It was played by actor John Colicos. He was not available at the time this episode, the voice for Kor was played by James Doohan. Colicos returned to the Kor character years later for three episodes of Deep Space Nine.

This is the last time the Klingons made their appearance with smooth foreheads. Years later, their appearance changed for the 1979 film, Star Trek: The Motion Picture.

This is the episode were Nichelle Nichols played the most characters in a single episode. A total of four: Uhura, Devna, Magen and Kaz.

Most of the designs for the starships stuck in the area of Elysia were unapproved designs for the insectoid pod starship from the pilot episode, “To The Farthest Of The Stars”.

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Official TOS Character Bracket!

And here’s the final bracket! Round One will go live tomorrow, 4/5 at 10 am EST!

I’m introducing the senior officers in Round Two, partially because there’s an odd amount of final characters, and partially because this is a chance to give minor characters a chance, imo.

Full List:

Round One:

Left Side:

TOS! Captain Pike vs. TOS! Doctor M’Benga: Poll here (winner vs. Spock)

Lt. Charlene Masters vs. Dr. Miranda Jones: Poll here (winner vs. Ensign Chekov)

Sarek v. Edith Keeler: Poll here (winner vs. Lt. Uhura)

TOS! Number One vs. The Horta: Poll here (winner vs. Nurse Chapel)

Right Side:

Lt. Kevin Riley vs. The Gorn: Poll here (winner vs. Captain Kirk)

Lt. Marlena Moreau vs. Harry Mudd: Poll here (winner vs. Lt. Commander Scott)

Lady Amanda Grayson vs. Khan: Poll here (winner vs. Lt. Sulu)

Yeoman Rand vs. T’Pring: Poll here (winner vs. Dr. McCoy)

Round Two:

Left Side:

TOS! Dr. M’Benga vs. Mr Spock: poll here

Lt. Charlene Masters vs. Ensign Pavel Chekov: poll here

Sarek vs. Lt. Nyota Uhura: poll here

The Horta vs. Nurse Christine Chapel: poll here

Right Side:

The Gorn vs. Captain Jim Kirk: poll here

Harry Mudd vs. Lt. Commander Scott: poll here

Amanda Grayson vs. Lt. Hikaru Sulu: poll here

T’Pring vs. Dr. McCoy: poll here

Quarter Finals:

Left Side:

Mr. Spock vs. Ensign Pavel Chekov: poll here

Lt. Nyota Uhura vs. Nurse Christine Chapel: poll here

Right Side:

Captain Jim Kirk vs. Lt. Commander Montgomery Scott: poll here

Lt. Hikaru Sulu vs. Dr. Leonard “Bones” McCoy: poll here

Semi-Finals:

Mr. Spock vs. Lt. Nyota Uhura: poll here

Captain Jim Kirk vs. Dr. Leonard “Bones” McCoy: poll here

Finals:

Mr. Spock vs. Dr. Leonard “Bones” McCoy: poll here

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Happy 86th Birthday to George Takei!

Full Name: Hosato Takei

Biography: Born to Japanese American parents in Los Angeles, George Takei and his family were interred during WWII. As an actor Takei is most famous for his role as Lt. Hikaru Sulu in the "Star Trek" TV series opposite William Shatner and Leonard Nimroy 1966-69. He went on to feature in the animated series and several Star Trek films. Takei is also a successful writer and activist, speaking out on immigration and LGBT rights

Born: April 20, 1937 Birthplace: Los Angeles, California, USA Age: 86 years old

Generation: Silent Generation Chinese Zodiac: Ox Star Sign: Taurus

Married Life

2008-09-14 Actor George Takei (68) weds Brad Altman at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles

Historical Events

1994-04-13 Asteroid 7373 Takei discovered and named after the Star Trek actor