Firstly of “Star Trek Past,” the usS. Enterprise is coming back from an prolonged area mission, desperate to relaxation and get again to their households. The crew’s day without work is to be spent at Yorktown, a large area advanced constructed of a number of big rings. Sulu lives in Yorktown with Ben and his daughter Demora (a personality launched as an grownup in 1994’s “Star Trek: Generations”). Later within the movie, a vengeance-mad villain named Krall (Idris Elba), armed with futuristic super-weapons, places Yorktown at risk. There’s a transient shot of Ben and Demora working for his or her lives.
That shot, it appears, was meant to hold with it much more emotional heft. Cho talked a few scene whereby Ben was stated to have moved to Yorktown towards his will. Cho described it thus:
“There was a scene that’s not within the movie however was written which may be very revealing, the place Sulu makes a confession to Uhura and says that his husband did not wish to transfer out to Yorktown, which is that this distant outpost, however he made that sacrifice for Sulu’s profession. Sulu felt a really heavy sense of guilt about having made that transfer and now had inadvertently endangered his household, after which Uhura comforts him. You already know, that was a colour that would not have come out if we hadn’t been paired off, and I assumed that was cool.”
Cho’s reference to being “paired off” alludes to the construction of “Past,” which sees the usS. Enterprise destroyed over an alien world, and the crew scattered. Every plot line follows a distinct pair of characters. Sulu is paired with Uhura (Zoe Saldaña).