Hikaru Sulu (mirror)

This character is a member of the Sulu family native to the mirror universe.

This page details Hikaru Sulu in the mirror universe; for Hikaru Sulu in the primary universe see Hikaru Sulu; for Hikaru Sulu in the Kelvin timeline created by Nero's temporal incursion see Hikaru Sulu (Kelvin timeline); for the Hikaru Sulu in the mirror universe created by Nero's temporal incursion see Hikaru Sulu (mirror) (Kelvin timeline); for Hikaru Sulu in all other alternate universes see Hikaru Sulu (alternates).

Hikaru Sulu
Lieutenant Hikaru Sulu (2267).
Full name:	Hikaru Kato Sulu
Species:	Terran
Gender:	male
Born:	2237
Affiliation:	Terran Empire, Imperial Starfleet
Family
Marital Status:	single
Career
Occupation:	helmsman/commanding officer
Previous Assignment:	helmsman, ISS Enterprise
Assignment:	CO, ISS Excelsior
Rank:	captain
Sulu and the Nyota Uhura of the primary universe.

In the mirror universe, Hikaru Sulu was a Terran man, an officer in the Imperial Starfleet who served as security chief, helmsman and second officer aboard the ISS Enterprise under Captain James T. Kirk during the 2260s decade.

Biography

Career

Sometime before or in 2264, Sulu received a scar on his face through unknown circumstances. By that year, he served aboard the ISS Enterprise under Captain Christopher Pike and had developed an infatuation with the ship's communications officer, Lieutenant Nyota Uhura. (IDW - Mirror Images comic: "Issue 1", TOS episode: "Mirror, Mirror")

Aboard the Enterprise

Mirror Images

In 2264, Sulu was present during a meeting held in the briefing room along with the rest of the senior staff, where Captain Pike briefed them in about their upcoming unscheduled stop to meet with an Orion trader. He continued by stating that the meeting, which would go unrecorded, with no log entries, would occur in the Pentalla Nebula and that they were going to trade some of the phaser rifles from the ship's storage in exchange for contraband dilithium. Pike then warned them to not have anymore "accidents" like the exploding shuttlecraft and promised to give them all a cut of the profits if all went smoothly.

When the Orion vessel, operated by Juraav, rendezvoused with the Enterprise and docked in the main hangar deck, Sulu and Kirk were ordered by Pike to head to the hangar deck and greet the guests, as well as making sure that there were no surprises. After getting to the hangar deck and exchanging greetings with Juraav, Kirk suggested that they got down to business, to which Juraav agreed. After the containers containing the dilithium were unloaded, Sulu and Kirk started inspecting them. At that moment, three Orion slave girls emerged from Juraav's ship. Juraav explained that the girls were expected at the ship's next port of call and then told the girls to thank Sulu and Kirk for their hospitality.

While Sulu was being seduced by the girls, Kirk noticed that one of the containers was heavier than the other two and discovered that it sounded hollow. Suspecting that the container had a hidden compartment, Kirk ordered Juraav to empty the container and to make no sudden moves. After the container was emptied, Sulu noticed that it had a false bottom and, upon removing the false bottom, he and Kirk discovered that it hid vials of illegal Bolian brew. When confronted about it, Juraav offered to let them keep the girls as compensation, while he would take back the Bolian brew. Agreeing to his terms, Kirk ordered Juraav to leave, telling him that he was lucky that they were letting him keep the phasers.

However, unbeknownst to Sulu, the entire exchange had been part of Kirk's ruse in order to get the components of the Tantalus field aboard the ship without Sulu noticing. (IDW - Mirror Images comic: "Issue 2")

Later on, Kirk managed to successfully assassinate Pike and become captain. After Kirk entered the bridge and sat down in the captain's chair, Sulu, along with Uhura and Spock, exchanged glances with him, as Kirk remained suspicious of all of them. (IDW - Mirror Images comic: "Issue 5")

The Five-Year Mission

In 2264, the Enterprise departed on a five-year mission of exploration and conquest under Kirk's command.

In 2267, Lieutenant (j.g.) Sulu was promoted to the rank of lieutenant and became Chief of Security after his predecessor, Ben Finney, was executed by Kirk for plotting against him. (Decipher RPG module: Through a Glass, Darkly)

This is contradicted by the comic miniseries: "Mirror Images", in which Sulu is depicted as already being Chief of Security in 2264.

Crossover with the primary universe

In 2267, four crewmembers of the USS Enterprise crossed over into the mirror universe during a transporter malfunction while attempting to transport through an ion storm. In their attempt to escape, it was the mission of Lieutenant Nyota Uhura to distract Sulu from his security display, which she was successful in manipulating.

When Spock received orders to assassinate Kirk for disobeying the Empire's orders to annihilate the Halkans, Sulu arrived with a security squad and had previously warned Spock that if the Vulcan was not able to command the ship, he would take command. Sulu tried to assassinate both Spock and Kirk and make it appear as though they killed each other after a fierce battle. He hoped to become the Enterprise's captain, and undoubtedly make Uhura the "captain's woman".

Sulu would, in turn, be defeated when the "captain's woman", Marlena Moreau, utilized the Tantalus field against Sulu's posse, allowing the four members of the USS Enterprise to return back to their universe. (TOS episode: "Mirror, Mirror")

Star Trek: Mirror Universe

Soon after the four crewmembers returned to their own universe, Sulu was "neutralized" by Lieutenant Robert D'Amato at the same time that Spock killed Kirk, solidifying Spock's command of the Enterprise. (TOS - Mirror Universe novel: The Sorrows of Empire)

Through a Glass, Darkly

Later career

Sulu continued to serve aboard the Enterprise under the command of Captain Spock, who had overthrown and killed Kirk shortly after the Halkan mission and then used the tantalus field to seize power on board the Enterprise. Over the years, Spock would convert the Enterprise crew to Oswaldism, a doctrine inspired by the reformist writings of 20th century Emperor Oswald. By 2285, Sulu and the surviving members of the Kirk-era Enterprise crew had all become committed Oswaldites.

That year, the Enterprise crew battled against T'Pau, the former ruler of Vulcan, and a complement of slavering Gorn for control of the Genesis Weapon, the Empire's top-secret project that had been overseen by Dr. Carol Marcus and her son David at the Imperial research base on Regula I. Although the Enterprise crew managed to win the battle, Spock had been killed by David Marcus, the illegitimate son of Captain Kirk, in revenge for Spock's murder of his father. Sulu subsequently killed David, his mother attacked Sulu and was then slain by Uhura. The schematics for the device died with the Marcuses.

A short time later, McCoy presided over a tearful funeral for Spock, in which Spock's body was placed in a coffin and shot onto the surface of Ceti Alpha V. However, the revivifying energy of the Genesis Effect took the DNA from Spock's body and replicated it, returning Spock back to life. The Enterprise crew braved a combined Klingon-Cardassian assault to rescue him. Alliance forces briefly occupied the Enterprise but were destroyed by an array of booby-traps installed by Scotty.

In 2286, the old Enterprise crew again joined forces to alter the timeline when a gigantic alien probe appeared in orbit around Earth and began to bombard it with extremely damaging sonic radiation. Spock realized that it was beaming a whale song at the planet, as if expecting a reply from one of those extinct marine mammals. The Enterprise subsequently went back in time to 1986 to pick up some whales. When they returned to the 23rd century, the probe and whales interacted. The whales, incited by the probe, grew rapidly into armored leviathans that roamed the tsunami-swept oceans, destroying entire coastal cities. After Spock found a way aboard the probe and shut down its computer core, the creatures, now vulnerable to phaser fire, were destroyed by the Enterprise. However, the whale-beasts' rampage, combined with the loss of power and the sonic damage from the probe, had left much of the planet's industrial capacity in ruins.

By the mid-2290s, the Empire's economic collapse resulted in the fleets of the Klingon-Cardassian Alliance quickly cutting their way through demoralized and ill-equipped Starfleet forces. In 2297, before the Alliance's final invasion of Earth, the Enterprise positioned itself in the Rigel system. When the Alliance occupied Rigel, Spock used the power-wand he had gotten from Korob and Sylvia to make his ship invisible and then sent an illusionary Enterprise to join the final battle for Earth. Maneuvering the illusion cleverly, he even managed to crash a Cardassian vessel into the Klingon Emperor's flagship, killing Emperor Kor and many of his top aides. The Enterprise crew then safely decamped. (Decipher RPG module: Through a Glass, Darkly)

The following scenarios are player-determined

Answer A: Émigré

The Enterprise crew fled to the primary universe, as Spock had decided that it was the one hideout where no one in the galaxy would think to seek him. Using the same amplifier technology he had used to alter the power-wand, Scotty created an energy field that connected the two universes just long enough for the Enterprise to fly through it.

After the utter failure of Spock's grand schemes triggered an identity crisis, McCoy egged on Spock by badgering him until he admitted that his actions had been based on Human emotion, not Vulcan logic. When Spock pronounced himself a failure and sank into a deep depression, the other crew members experienced a similar sense of demoralization. As a group, they decided to abandon the Enterprise and seek new lives in the Federation.

Applying the power-wand's technology one last time, Spock and Scotty designed small devices allowing the user to alter their appearance. Each crew member received a single Appearance Scrambler, as Scotty dubbed it. That way, if they discovered that their counterparts were active and well-known, they could adopt new, anonymous faces. The Enterprise traveled through the fringes of Federation space, covertly dropping off crew members at various colonies and starbases. McCoy, Spock, Sulu, Uhura and Scotty were the last to abandon ship. Unable to bear the thought of its destruction, they put up the shields and parked it in continuous orbit around the moon of a planet far from any inhabited worlds. Spock calculated that, barring a surprise asteroid hit, it would remain in good condition for 134 years, 15 days, 6 hours and 19 minutes. They took a long shuttlecraft journey to the nearest Federation base and mournfully parted company, not exchanging forwarding addresses because nobody knew where they would head. (Decipher RPG module: Through a Glass, Darkly)

Answer B: Romulan Praetor

Sulu was left in command of the Enterprise by Spock after he had decided to assume the identity of a Tal Shiar operative called Notatek. Spock departed on a shuttlecraft as the ship passed through the Romulan frontier for parts unknown. (Decipher RPG module: Through a Glass, Darkly)

Answer C: The Vulcan Behind the Curtain

Sulu presumably remained on board the Enterprise after Spock changed his identity and lived as a supposed addict named "Shuffles" on Gringus-A1, from where he continued to manipulate events throughout the galaxy. (Decipher RPG module: Through a Glass, Darkly)

Answer D: Locutus of Borg

When the Enterprise attempted to escape into the primary universe, Scotty's device failed and the ship instead ended up in the mirror universe's Delta Quadrant. The Enterprise prospered for a while, spreading Oswaldite ideas to the quadrant's many hostile cultures, until they met the Borg. Although the ship and its crew escaped, Spock was beamed by the Borg onto one of their cubes and was assimilated, an act that changed him and the Borg forever. (Decipher RPG module: Through a Glass, Darkly)

Shattered Universe

In 2293, Sulu commanded the ISS Excelsior. Sulu had attempted to take over the Terran Empire and was deemed a traitor. While being chased by the ISS Enterprise-A, which was commanded by Pavel Chekov, who wanted to kill Sulu for not having included him in his plans to take control of the Empire, Sulu and his crew were caught in the Janus Vortex. During the event, he and his crew were transported into another universe, where they exchanged places with their counterparts in that reality.

Now in command of the USS Excelsior, Sulu attempted, and nearly succeeded, in leading the Klingons and the Romulans into a war against the Federation. However, before he was able to do so, the USS Excelsior was pulled inside the Janus Vortex, where they encountered their counterparts. In-between dimensions, a battle erupted between the two until Sulu's counterpart deployed a dilithium warhead which catapulted both crews back to their own realities. (TOS video game: Shattered Universe)

Appendices

External link

• Hikaru Sulu (mirror) article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.