This scene needs to include the moments prior, when Sulu goes from an unassuming crew member to a Huckleberry at the drop of a hat. Seeing that context is what made it work.
Captain Hikaru Sulu: In range? Helmsman Lojur: Not yet sir. Captain Hikaru Sulu: Come on, come on. Helmsman Lojur: She'll fly apart! Captain Hikaru Sulu: *Fly her apart then!*
You see that's where everyone gets it wrong. Tough guys you know are going to be tough from the off. But they thus have a stop point. A nice guy is nice because he wants you to do the right thing first and give you several opportunities to do so. If you fail then that velvet glove comes off and no amount of pleading for mercy will work. You had your chance. You are now dead to them. That's why they may look soft but underneath they are terrifying. Don't piss them off. Ever.
@@TheWPhilosopher reading your comment reminded me of the time the King Pin shot Aunt May and lured Peter into a gladiator style fight in a prison. There were no acrobatics. No jokes. Nothing that would make you think it was Spiderman fighting. Instead Peter nearly beat King Pin to death with his bare hand and left him bleeding on the floor. Search it up, there’s a good video of it on RU-vid
Attention, John Harrison. This is Captain Hikaru Sulu of the USS Enterprise. A shuttle of highly trained officers is on its way to your location. If you do not surrender to them immediately, I will unleash the entire payload of advanced long-range torpedoes currently locked onto your location. You have two minutes to confirm your compliance. Refusal to do so will result in your obliteration. If you test me, you will fail.
@@ZukoHalliwell you undermine George Takei's entire work with 1 line from John Cho? I absolutely don't like and even hate people who gatekeep fandom, but this is an extreme exception... please distance yourself from anything Star Trek related. please. lol
You know what? After Shatner did Takei dirty in Undiscovered Country I think that'd be fitting to give Sulu his own adventures especially with Chekov down
Notice his little drop in tone from his formal speech as captain of the Enterprise to his more personal ending. The first lines are the words of an Officer of Starfleet. The last words are the words of a man intent on making you comply or kill you if you wont. A small detail but you feel the steel in the man behind the title in that moment.
Do you think this whole scene is a reference to when George Takei (the original Sulu) wanted to receive command of the Excelsior in Star Trek II, but William Shatner wouldn't let him? Takei talks about this in his autobiography 'To The Stars'.
“You just sat a man down at a high-stakes poker game with no cards and told him to bluff! Listen, Sulu’s a good man, but he’s no captain!” Audience: You were saying?
Attention: John Harrison. This is Captain Hikaru Sulu of the USS Enterprise. A shuttle of highly trained officers is on its way to your location. If you do not surrender to them immediately, I will unleash the entire payload of advanced long-range torpedoes currently locked on to your location. You have two minutes to confirm your compliance. Refusal to do so will result in your obliteration. ...If you test me, you will fail.
The Enterprise crew made 1 big mistake, that revealed this whole thing to be a bluff. You're gonna fire those nasty torpedos at a target, on which sit your highly trained officers? Bluff He wouldn't dare use them on his own men. And i don't suspect Harrison would let them escape so Sulu _could_ use them. You don't threaten a target with annihalation, while sending your own men to that target.
