Lieutenant Hikaru Sulu
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Name: Hikaru Sulu
Rank: Lieutenant
Position: Chief Helm Officer USS Enterprise (NCC-1701)
Age: 143 (appears 30)

Starfleet History
pre 2265: Assigned to USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) as Head of Astrometrics
2265: Reassigned to Helm division and named Chief Helm Officer

Personal History
Hikaru Sulu was born in San Francisco, Earth on 2237. In 2248, Sulu and his family moved from Earth to Ishikawa, on the planet Ganjitsu, located along the Federation-Klingon border. An unexpected Klingon force attacked the colony they lived at. This resulted in the death of a girl Sulu was close friends with. Only many years later, did he finally release this consuming guilt he had harbored. During the late 2250s or early 2260s, Sulu attended Starfleet Academy in which he underwent pilot training. Sulu began serving aboard the USS Enterprise under the command of Captain James T. Kirk in 2265. He began in the sciences division serving as the department head for Astrosciences. That year, he was present on the bridge as the Enterprise prepared to cross the galactic barrier. Following the ship's encounter with the barrier, he attended the staff meeting to discuss the effects it had on Gary Mitchell as well as Mitchell's acquisition of new mental abilities. There, Sulu briefed that "if you want the mathematics of this, Mitchell's ability is increasing geometrically. That is, like having a penny, doubling it every day. In a month, you'll be a millionaire." By 2266, Lieutenant Sulu was a command division officer on the Enterprise, and was the senior helmsman.

That year, Sulu announced contact with an object approaching the Enterprise at light speed, and attempted several evasive maneuvers before sounding condition alert and calling the captain to the bridge. After destroying the object, he attended a department heads meeting in the briefing room where they discussed their findings. As the encounter ensued, he coordinated with the engineering decks. Shortly after the Enterprise destroyed the object, Kirk later noted that his times were slow, and recommended they program and repeat a series of simulated attacks and evasion maneuvers until they were proficient. As the training continued, Sulu interrupted and announced that a new, larger object (about a mile in diameter) was approaching. He subsequently had to carry out several orders that Kirk issued to then-navigator Dave Bailey, as Bailey was so shocked by the alien presence he wasn't responsive to commands. As the contentious encounter continued, Sulu counted down the minutes to a threatened destruction of the Enterprise which turned out to be a bluff threat posed by the commander of the second object. After Kirk used his own bluff, the second object turned out to actually be a disguise for the much smaller First Federation starship Fesarius, under the command of an alien named Balok. Sulu ultimately witnessed the departure of the first of several navigators to leave after having sat next to him, as Bailey ended up volunteering to stay with Balok as the first representative of the United Federation of Planets to the First Federation. In early 2266, Sulu, like the rest of the ship's male crew, became infatuated with Mudd's women, due to the influences they conveyed from taking the Venus drug. Sulu was included in a six-man landing party that conducted a survey mission on the planet Alfa 177. While there, he grew fond of a dog-like animal, but also complained of the planet's temperature, noting initially how it was "nippy". Due to the Enterprise's transporter malfunctioning (which killed the creature), however, he, Leslie, and two other technicians had to stay a long while on the planet's frigid surface. As the surface temperature dipped to twenty degrees below zero, he reported back to the Enterprise that he couldn't "exactly call it balmy," as the thermal heaters that were transported to the surface for them to use did not function. At forty-one below zero, Sulu inquired if Captain Kirk could maybe "find a long rope somewhere and lower us down a pot of hot coffee?" before adding, "rice wine will do, if you're short on coffee." As the temperature reached seventy-five below zero, Sulu used his phaser to heat nearby rocks. He then decided to "give room service another call," because the "coffee's taking too long." When Kirk answered the call directly, Sulu took that a "hot line direct to the Captain," gave him the indication to inquire "Are we that far gone?" Kirk assured him that he gave the rest of the crew the afternoon off and that he was simply "watching the store," before asking how landing party was doing down there. Sulu explained that they were doing "lovely, except that the frost is building up," and that they were "using hand phasers to heat the rocks," and that one of their four phasers had already quit. Sulu further pleaded to know if there was "any possibility of getting us back aboard before the skiing season opens down here?" As time continued to press on, the surface temperature reached one hundred seventeen below zero, and leaving Sulu with little hope of further survival. The conditions made it no longer possible to clearly read the top indicator of the communicator as the cold was starting to penetrate it, befofe his near to final words reported that there were "two men unconscious. No time. No. Can't wait. No time." Not long after this, the ship's transporter system was repaired, and Sulu and the three others were beamed safely back to the ship, with each suffering from severe exposure and frostbite that Doctor McCoy was later able to treat.

A particularly bizarre experience Sulu had to face early in his time as the Enterprise's chief helmsman happened when he wasn't even on the bridge. One day, Sulu was working on his hobby of botany in the ship's botany section when Yeoman Janice Rand came in with a tray of a food for the lieutenant, followed by a bizarrely acting crewman, Green. Sulu became puzzled by the crewman's arrival causing a frenzied reaction in a carnivorous plant, whom he called Gertrude, whose response prompted Green to quickly exit. Sulu, along with Rand, subsequently discovered the reason that the plant had acted the way it had, when they found Barnhart dead in a corridor with blotches on his face and all the salt drained out of his body; it turned out the version of Green they had seen earlier was a shape-shifting M-113 creature, which was killed a short time later. In 2266, Sulu and the then-navigator Lieutenant Kevin Riley came under the effects of the Psi 2000 polywater intoxication after being exposed while they both tried to prevent Lieutenant junior grade Joe Tormolen from stabbing himself with a table knife in the recreation room. A bit later, Sulu left his helm post to go practice fencing. Unfortunately the intoxication just built into him to the point where he started fancying himself as the reincarnation of D'Artagnan, imperiling crew members in the corridors with a fencing foil. This got so out of hand that he went back to the bridge that he assumed and needed to confront Kirk as Richelieu. Sulu even took Uhura under his "protection" as a "fair maiden". (Uhura told him, "Sorry, neither" and was able to break free of Sulu's grasp.) After Sulu was subdued, Sulu was taken by two crewmen to sickbay. The majority of the rest of the crew became infected with the polywater intoxication until McCoy found an antidote to the intoxication, which worked on Sulu and he returned to duty.

Sulu was part of a landing party that investigated an uncharted planet, in the Omicron Delta region, that seemed perfect for shore leave, with McCoy telling Sulu the planet looked like a place out of Alice in Wonderland. But then McCoy saw first, a giant White Rabbit immediately followed by a little girl, both of whom spoke and dressed just as McCoy imagined characters from Alice in Wonderland would do. A short time later Sulu thought of an old-fashioned .38 police special revolver and ended up finding one just lying on the ground and he also took practice shots with it startling temporarily other landing party members. Soon all of the landing party started having encounters with things and people that they thought of in their imaginations, including two people from Kirk's past. Sulu was attacked by a samurai warrior and also briefly chased by a Bengal tiger and strafed by a Second World War Japanese Zero aircraft. A short time later, a roughed-up Kirk ordered the landing party to stop thinking and talking. Fortunately a few minutes after that, an older man appeared and explained that the planet was designed as an "amusement park" and he was the Keeper of the planet. The planet was not meant to be hostile and the results of one's fantasies are not permanent. Then McCoy appeared alive, and healed, with two cabaret girls from Rigel II on both of his arms (making Yeoman Barrows jealous, so he handed one off to Sulu and the other to Spock, with McCoy going to spend time on vacation with Barrows.) With the crises past, Kirk then ordered shore leave for the whole entire crew of the Enterprise on the planet.

In 2267, Sulu, then Kirk, suddenly vanished from the bridge as the Enterprise was investigating a rogue planet composed of iron-silica. It turned out they had been abducted off the bridge by a being named Trelane, who considered himself the squire of the planet Gothos, but was in reality nothing but a willful child who was later scolded by his parents for not treating his pets, the Humans, with respect. Unfortunately before that happened, Trelane, yet again, plucked Sulu and then the rest of the bridge crew, from the bridge, and took them to Gothos. Fortunately a short time later, Kirk was able to dispatch of Trelane and his parents took him away from the Humans. Due to his experience as a combat officer, in 2267, Sulu assumed an authoritative role on the Enterprise bridge. Sulu was occasionally placed in temporary command of the ship. An early instance of when Sulu was in command of the Enterprise, while still remaining at his post at the helm, was when the ship engaged the Gorn starship while they were in orbit above the Federation observation outpost on Cestus III. Following the Enterprise's accidental transport back to 1969 from 2267, he assisted Captain Kirk in infiltrating the US Air Force US 498th Airbase Group in Omaha, Nebraska where they successfully retrieved photographic evidence of the Enterprise, after it was visually contacted by Air Force Captain John Christopher. For a short time Sulu fell under the mind control of the computer Landru on the planet Beta III, until Kirk and Spock were able to destroy the computer which allowed Scott to inform them that Sulu had returned to his normal reliable self.

Sulu and the rest of the Enterprise crew were overcome by the effects of the pod plants' spores on the planet Omicron Ceti III. Along with rest of the crew, Sulu desired to leave Starfleet to live on the planet, but was cured of the spores, as the rest of the crew was, and he resumed his duties. The second time Sulu took temporary command was when Kirk was on the planet Organia and the Enterprise nearly went to battle with the Klingons. But the real non-corporeal Organians weren't going to allow a battle and immobilized both sides' forces causing on the Enterprise that all consoles and people became too hot to touch – including the captain's chair that Sulu was sitting in. Sulu was nearly injured when a technical malfunction caused the helm console to overload and explode in his face. Sulu was shocked unconscious by the explosion. McCoy diagnosed a heart flutter and gave him a dose of cordrazine via hypospray, after which Sulu recovered. Sulu was attacked and thrown out of his helm seat by Spock when Spock raged out of control due to the effects of one of the flying parasites that had invaded the planet Deneva. Sulu recovered from this attack from the first officer and Spock were soon free of the parasite's influence. On another planet, Pyris VII, a short time later, Sulu fwll under the mind control of an alien named Sylvia and Sulu nearly killed Kirk until Kirk was able to destroy Sylvia's power source. When the being Apollo jammed all power sources on the Enterprise, Sulu was able to rig all transmission circuits for maximum power generation. This eventually lead the ship to be allowed to destroy, with phasers, Apollo's strange radiated power source, his temple, which broke the ship free of his hold on them.

Sulu was on the Enterprise when the ship encounter the planet killer and was thrown into a different quantum reality and the year 2380. Not only was Sulu thrown into a time where his great granddaughter and great great grandson were in Starfleet. He also got to meet a copy of the daughter his older self had.

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