Sulu on the small screen

by: Jenny Baxter- AWS percussionist

If you’re a Heroes fan, yesterday was a national holiday, filled with the long-awaited first two episodes of season three. The addicting show, based on the style of graphic novels, has reached soaring popularity and follows the lives of the good, the bad and the ugly of super power world. Though season 2 was interrupted like most primetime by the writer strikes, the new installment, subtitled Heroes & Villians is now in full swing.

Though George Takei appeared only in video form in this episode, the Star Trek veteran made a good run on Heroes through the last of the first season into the second.  And the nature of the show tells me we might be seeing more of him in season three. Takei plays Hiro’s mysterious and powerful father Kaito Nakamura,  CEO of Yamagato industries in Japan. It seems Takei can’t get away from his Star Trek days as Mr. Sulu on the USS Enterprise; Hiro’s character is a huge Star Trek fan and Nakamura’s limo in his first appearance has a license plate reading NCC-1701, the model of the Enterprise.

[I love the pictures you can find on the Internet. From blog Bitten & Bound.]

Takei also made news recently for his personal life. After announcing this summer that he would marry his 21-year partner Brad Altman, they tied the knot on September 14 in Los Angeles, following the overturn of the gay marriage ban in California.

You can watch episodes featuring Takei and many others here.