Sulan

Sulan is a Vulcan strategist that serves aboard the USS Hikaru Sulu as Strategic Operations Officer.

His logical intuition leads itself well to fleet – level strategy and he is able to infer and extrapolate strategic outcomes with unerring accuracy, so much so that his sometimes seems prescient. However, with his trademark vacuum of humor, Lieutenant Commander Sulan would dismiss such fanciful characterizations  and asset that he is merely pursing the data to it’s logical and most probably outcome.

Sulan is typically found on the Flag Bridge, which serves as the Strategic Operations Centre (SOC), supplying either the CO or visiting Flag Officer with up to date strategic evaluations and mission plans and managing the communications specialists and tacticians deployed there.

Sulan seems mercifully free from the ravages of humor and find the concept illogical in most cases.

This makes the Vulcan particularly awkward in social situations, when off duty he prefers to spend his time cloistered in his quarters in meditation or engaging his mind in constructive strategic pastimes such as ‘Kal-toh’  or even Chess, if he is feeling frivolous (as it is oft – said,  “Kal-toh is to chess as chess is to tic-tac-toe“).

That is not to say that Sulan does not enjoy social engagements (if more so from an intellectual standpoint) and has developed a surprising friendship with the ship’s new Intelligence Officer – with whom he works quite closely. Sulan finds the dichotomy presented by Lt Savak mixed Vulcan/Romulan heritage sometimes intriguing, incongruous and even engaging.