John Cho would make a cool captain in a modern Sulu series. It'd be interesting to have a gay lead character with husband and daughter. Imagine the ragebait on youtube
Plus he was a total badass threatening Khan in Into Darkness.
But really, when you have concepts like this, I think, "does it HAVE to be [insert character here]?" because what is going to set it apart from any other show like SNW? What stories could it tell that the others can't? And more often than not it's just gonna be SNW again with different faces.
Plus he was a total badass threatening Khan in Into Darkness.
But really, when you have concepts like this, I think, "does it HAVE to be [insert character here]?" because what is going to set it apart from any other show like SNW? What stories could it tell that the others can't? And more often than not it's just gonna be SNW again with different faces.
Sulu: A Star Trek Story
At this point there is no desire for a live action Sulu series I think, the moment has passed. Takei doing Sulu in animation or maybe a ‘old’ Sulu telling tales portrayed by younger actors is a maybe.
BUT go back to when Undiscovered Country came out and there Definatly was a demand for a show. If Paramount has green-lit a spin off show then it would have been really popular esp for fleshing out the Lost Era between the movies and TNG.
Do I think Takei could have pulled it off as a leading man? Yes. With the right scripts and a strong supporting cast - they may have had to be some changes from the movies people if that the actors were ‘weak’ but who knows.
Could it have gone 7 series of 24 episodes? Again who knows. I might have pitched a 5 year voyage, but it’s the sort of show that would likely benefit from the format SNW has been using with episodic adventures but loose connecting arcs for each character rather than the B5 approach.
Would I have watched it? Damm right I would.
BUT go back to when Undiscovered Country came out and there Definatly was a demand for a show. If Paramount has green-lit a spin off show then it would have been really popular esp for fleshing out the Lost Era between the movies and TNG.
Do I think Takei could have pulled it off as a leading man? Yes. With the right scripts and a strong supporting cast - they may have had to be some changes from the movies people if that the actors were ‘weak’ but who knows.
Could it have gone 7 series of 24 episodes? Again who knows. I might have pitched a 5 year voyage, but it’s the sort of show that would likely benefit from the format SNW has been using with episodic adventures but loose connecting arcs for each character rather than the B5 approach.
Would I have watched it? Damm right I would.
I wouldn't bet on that.
I thought she was fine in ST VI, but very wooden in "Flashback". (Some of her lines in ST VI were given to Christian Slater at the last minute.) I wondered at the time of the VGR episode if George's and some fans' building excitement about a maybe-spin-off series was weighing her down?
I don't know, she had one line.
"Do we report this, sir?"
Granted, it's a ridiculous line. But her delivery is just not there.
But honestly, Nick Meyer spent most of his time moving his background people everywhere.
Or she was just out of the game too long. She used to be great. But, TBH , a number of usually solid performers did middling work in that movie. Again, I lay some of that on Meyer.
Interesting that the overwhelming response is "No thank you".
I'm guessing you guys aren't rushing out to purchase the Captain Sulu action figure.
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I'm not rushing out to buy any of the action figures. Why would Sulu be any different?
And why the roll-eyes? Are you getting the Sulu action figure? Is this something you think every Star Trek fan should be buying, at $28.99 plus shipping?
I dislike that there isn’t a common DIN standard to action figure sizing. These are not the 1/18th scale that is common for Playmates, recent Trek figures and Mattel’s Jurassic World line. I bought Tuvix despite the figure being the wrong size, but nobody else.Interesting that the overwhelming response is "No thank you".
I'm guessing you guys aren't rushing out to purchase the Captain Sulu action figure.
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Yes, I realize the Harold and Kumar movies started a long time ago, but I'd have thought Cho was a decade younger than that.
So, which series are we losing in this alternate timeline, Deep Space Nine or Voyager?
Something non-ship-based was going to be the first out of the gate in 1993. Maybe the Sulu series is more like one of the earlier DSN concepts, where the starbase is actually located on a planet, and Sulu, post-Excelsior, is a sector admiral or somesuch.
Otherwise, it's the UPN launch in 1995 and Sulu replaces Voyager.
I don't think Paramount would have wanted two ship shows on at the same time, that's why DSN was fishing around for a non-ship setting in its development.
But I keep coming back to the idea that, despite whatever Takei thought of himself, he wasn't leading man material and wouldn't be able to carry a series.
A John Cho Sulu show would be great. I really like him as an actor and he could carry the flame of the Kelvin universe for those fans. You could book end the season/mini series or certain episodes with George Takei as the older Sulu looking back on those days. Maybe talking to the current Excelsior captain. Demora.
Honestly, I thought Whitney's delivery was fine. What jars me every time is Takei's delivery of the follow-up "are you kidding" line. His delivery seems very awkward to me and you can't really tell what he's actually intending to convey.
Cho is already 53, approximately the age of Takei during production on The Undiscovered Country. He’d be a bit old to convincingly pull off “young” Sulu, sorta like how he was a bit too old as Spike Spiegel.
Given that he will be SNW S5 Sulu, I would agree that Kai Murakami is more likely to play Sulu going forward than John Cho. But how likely? At this point, based on what we know, not very. (Twice a small positive number is still a small number, just not quite as small.)
Rand's line was only there to prompt his incredulous response. Which got a laugh. Which is what they wanted. Lots of awkward lines in that movie simply for the ha-ha's.
I didn't say "young" Sulu and he was just fine as Spike Spiegel. He looked the same as he did in 09.
Roger C. Carmel was 33 years old when he played the 47 year old Mudd in TOS. People are casted on looks. Not age alone.
1. Nobody really wants a Sulu series, other than George Takei.
2. Nobody really wants to hire the actors from the Kelvin films to reprise their roles, either from the KT or the PT.
3. The casting logic now seems to be to hire actors who are actually descended from the same places as their characters (see SNW Scotty and Sulu.) John Cho is Korean-American.
2. Nobody really wants to hire the actors from the Kelvin films to reprise their roles, either from the KT or the PT.
3. The casting logic now seems to be to hire actors who are actually descended from the same places as their characters (see SNW Scotty and Sulu.) John Cho is Korean-American.
Ethan Peck is not from Vulcan.
