I kinda like the way that, sometime between Final Frontier and Undiscovered Country, Sulu was kind-of like, "You know what, guys? I'm really glad we're all friends and everything, but you're all so insanely co-dependent. I'm gonna finally go captain my own ship. No, it was great getting to pilot the Enterprise for a quarter of my life, but I think I'm ready to do my own thing."
And then his first order of business was to go buy some especially fragile teacups.













