re: #198 sagehen

was Sulu gay? Or is that something we learned about Takei many years later?

Sulu wasn’t gay. Takei came out much later too.

When the JJ-Trek movies made Sulu gay, George Takei wasn’t particularly thrilled. I think it was coming from a prospective that the actor and the character are not the same, and gay people can and have been playing straight people for years and will continue to do so and there’s nothing wrong with that.