Hikaru Sulu occurs as character in the original Star Trek series, played by George Takei. He was originally staff physicist, however ended higher existence transferred to helm. He gets promoted to captain and gets his own ship around Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. He has of these girl known as Demora Sulu who was introduced in Star Trek: Generations.

His ultimate fate has non been documented. It's widely assumed that he retained command of the USS Excelsior after Star Trek VI. Inside 2350, future Voyager first officer Chakotay was sponsored by Captain Sulu for entrance into Starfleet Academy. Sulu too featured in the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Flashback".

When by owning numbers of of the minor characters, he is somewhat of an enigma—his 1st title wasn't possibly established into Trek canon until that last film (it experienced been mentioned within novels & a alive series, however neither come considered to become canon). A character is intended to exist as of pan-Asian around good order, however was raised in San Francisco. Hikaru occurs as Japanese name, when Sulu is taken from the province in the Philippines. In the Japanese version of Star Trek, his name is changed to Kato, at least partially because a Japanese language lacks distinction between L & R. A better understanding offered is that Sulu just can't become a Japanese title & in case a surtitle is to become the character's title, a 1st title would use to become changed to an ambiguous Asian name.