Hoshi Sato, played by Korean-American actress Linda Park, is a fictional character in the science fiction television series Star Trek: Enterprise.
Sato is the communication officer aboard the starship Enterprise (NX-01), and also a linguist who speaks more than forty languages, including Klingon. She is an acknowledged expert at operating the universal translator, which was a key instrument in allowing cultures from different worlds to communicat...
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Hoshi Sato, played by Korean-American actress Linda Park, is a fictional character in the science fiction television series Star Trek: Enterprise.
Sato is the communication officer aboard the starship Enterprise (NX-01), and also a linguist who speaks more than forty languages, including Klingon. She is an acknowledged expert at operating the universal translator, which was a key instrument in allowing cultures from different worlds to communicate.
Sato is the first Japanese regular character on a Star Trek show since Hikaru Sulu in the original series, though Park herself is of Korean descent.
Relatively little of Sato's background has been explored in the series. It is known that she briefly suffered from space sickness and is also claustrophobic. The fourth season episode "Observer Effect" revealed that Sato was once dishonorably discharged from Starfleet for running a floating poker game and breaking the arm of a Starfleet instructor who tried to break it up (she has a black belt...
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