12 Facts About Hikaru Sulu

Hikaru Kato Sulu is a fictional character in the Star Trek media franchise.

Hikaru Sulu was portrayed by George Takei in the original Star Trek series.

Hikaru Sulu was born in San Francisco, and is of Japanese heritage.

Hikaru Sulu's birthdate has not been established definitively, but the book Star Trek Chronology by Michael Okuda and Denise Okuda speculates that he was 29 at the time of the first season of Star Trek, putting his birth in the year 2237.

Hikaru Sulu was shown as the USS Enterprise's staff physicist in the pilot episode, "Where No Man Has Gone Before" .

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Hikaru Sulu is promoted to captain and given command of the USS Excelsior three years before the events of Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.

Abrams was concerned about casting a Korean-American as the character, but Takei explained to the director that Hikaru Sulu was meant to represent all of Asia on the Enterprise, so Abrams went ahead with Cho.

At the film's climax Hikaru Sulu admits to Kirk that he wouldn't mind being a captain, referencing his role as captain of the USS Excelsior in the original film series.

Hikaru Sulu is responsible for another future USS Voyager crew member joining Starfleet.

Reference book Federation: The First 150 Years, by David A Goodman, contains an audio introduction by Admiral Hikaru Sulu, indicating that at some point Sulu is promoted to admiral, although this is non-canonical.

In 2016, Hikaru Sulu was ranked as the 18th most important character of Starfleet within the Star Trek science fiction universe by Wired magazine.

In 2019, Hikaru Sulu was ranked the 9th-sexiest Star Trek character by Syfy, In between Hugh Culber and Jean-Luc Picard .