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Sounds fair enough to me
By DavidDownUnder

Of course, making TV in the '60s for the mainstream US audience they obviously needed to 'pin down' Sulu as a Japanese character every now and again, so tossing in a few scenes with a Samurai warrior and katana is helpful shorthand.

But Trek has never stuck to a single match of actor to 'Asian character'. In Voyager we had Harry Kim (Korean name, character born in South Carolina) played by Chinese-American actor Garrett Wang. In Enterprise, Hoshi Sato (Japanese name, character born in Kyoto) was played by Korean-American Linda Park.

But when they eventually get around to putting an Australian on a Trek bridge, he bloody better not be played by a New Zealander. Now THAT would be an insult. :>


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