My writing and business partner, J.T. Tepnapa, was just cast as Mr. Sulu in Star Trek: Phase II (formerly known as Star Trek: New Voyages), the Web series for which I write and serve as co-executive producer.
J.T. and I met on the set of our first collaboration, Star Trek: Hidden Frontier, the Web’s longest-running scifi series, back in 2003 when he starred in the first screenplay I ever wrote, “Grave Matters.” Though I left that series in 2005, we’ve since joined together to begin work on our first feature film, Judas Kiss, under the umbrella of his production company, Blue Seraph Productions.
J.T. is now the fourth person to portray Sulu in a major production, following George Takei (with whom I worked in New Voyages’ recent episode, “World Enough and Time”), John Lim (also in New Voyages) and John Cho in J.J. Abrams’ upcoming Star Trek movie.
I’m excited to be on a working set shortly with J.T. again. We’ll be shooting the next two episodes of Phase II this summer in New York. Um, as soon as I finish writing one and rewriting the other.
