John Cho on Sulu’s STAR TREK BEYOND Family Secret

January 15, 2016

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As we get closer to July’s STAR TREK BEYOND release, media outlets who were invited to visit the Vancouver film sets have started to roll out their mid-summer interviews with the film’s cast, and today’s video touches on Chris Pine and Karl Urban, but shines a spotlight on John Cho (and Hikaru Sulu) comes courtesy of Entertainment Tonight.

While catching up on camera, Cho not only spoke about the state of the Enterprise — two years into the new Five Year Mission, where both the journey and the ship are starting to show their age — Cho revealed that like his prime-universe counterpart, Hikaru Sulu is a father!

Now this is something we didn’t expect!

Introduced in Star Trek: Generations, prime-Sulu’s daughter Demora Sulu was a 22-year-old Starfleet ensign aboard the Enterprise-B. Backtracking actress Jaqueline Kim’s age at the time, this places Demora’s birth sometime between the end of The Animated Series and the relaunch of the Enterprise in Star Trek: The Motion Picture.

As we know by now, events in the “alternate timeline” of the current films have certainly been known to occur in different ways and times as their prime counterparts, and if the daughter of John Cho’s Sulu ends up being a new version of Demora, this places her birth at least ten years ahead of the Generations character.

Not that this is a bad thing, of course! By Cho’s comments at the end of the video embedded above, there’s more to learn about this girl — to be revealed this summer!

Here’s another video, where Pine, Urban, and Zoe Saldana talk about paying homage to the Original Series in the new film.

Finally, here’s a last look at the on-set action during the Enterprise-under-attack sequence featured in the STAR TREK BEYOND trailer, featuring Spock and McCoy trying to navigate the ship’s corridors.