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Decades after having the first interracial kiss on U.S. TV, "Star Trek" is now getting its first major LGBT character on big screen. John Cho who plays Hikaru Sulu, the helmsman of the Starship Enterprise, reveals that his character has a daughter with his same-sex partner in the next movie installment "Star Trek Beyond".

"I liked the approach, which was not to make a big thing out it, which is where I hope we are going as a species, to not politicize one's personal orientations," the actor said as quoted by the Herald Sun. He said the scene was written to honor George Takei, who played Sulu in the original 1960s television series.

Takei was forced to keep his sexuality secret during his early career but he has since become a prominent LGBTQ activist. "If I wanted to work as an actor I had to keep it a secret," he told News Corp last year. "Back then I couldn't marry a white person - that was against the law here, miscegenation. But now I am married to a white dude so we have changed."

Directed by Justin Lin, "Star Trek Beyond" is coming in U.S. on July 22. It stars Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Simon Pegg, Karl Urban, Zoe Saldana and the late Anton Yelchin.