The fictional character Hikaru Sulu was born in San Francisco, to Japanese and Filipino parents. He was shown as the USS Enterprise’s staff physicist in the pilot episode, “Where No Man Has Gone Before”, but served as helmsman throughout the rest of the series, during which he held the rank of lieutenant.
Apparently, his name itself is half-Pinoy too. More from our beloved Wikipedia:
[Gene] Roddenberry did not want a nationally specific surname, so he looked at a map and saw the Sulu Sea [a large sea in the southwestern area of the Philippines]. “He thought, ‘Ah, the waters of that sea touch all shores’,” the actor recalled, “and that’s how my character came to have the name Sulu.”
Now I really want to be a Trekkie. Does anybody here have Star Trek for Dummies?
How do you say “Ohhhhhhhh SNAP!” in Tagalog?
