GAYS: THE FINAL FRONTIER!
Last year, the third installment of the Star Trek reboot series, Star Trek Beyond, raised a big stink because writer Simon Pegg decided to make Helmsman Hikaru Sulu canonically gay, with a husband and a daughter. People objected to making Sulu gay because they felt it was homophobic to make a character gay just because his original actor, George Takei, is also gay.
I would like to say that, personally, I have no problem with Sulu being gay whatsoever, obviously. Representation is important, especially in such a universal cultural phenomenon like Star Trek. Maybe Pegg just wanted to sexually diversify the crew of the Enterprise and Sulu was the logical choice.
(Later edit): However, I’ve read that George Takei disapproves of the development, so…
But going back to logicalness…if he wanted to make someone on the Enterprise gay, there was a certain pointy eared science officer he could have chosen instead…
I am just saying, the whole “I must suppress my human emotions” thing is totally a euphemism for staying in the closet. (Let him marry Kirk already. It’s been fifty years. It’s time.) -TRL
La Vie En Rouge 
I personally love that sulu was the chosen gay. even PAVEL has gotten more stuff to do thus far in the reboots (of course not anymore… RIP anton) and it was really nice to see Sulu get his moments in Beyond. plus, his husband was SO CUTE and he does canonically have a random daughter in the movie that shall not be named (generations HISS). I wish they’d approved it with George first, maybe then there would be no “oh suu’s gay becaus tekai is gay” stuff