American screenwriter who co-wrote Star Trek Beyond with Simon Pegg and appears in the film as Ben, the husband of Hikaru Sulu.
Doug Jung is an American film and television writer whose earlier credits include the film Confidence and the series Dark Blue, which he created.
He was brought on to Star Trek Beyond, released in 2016, to write a new script with Simon Pegg after an earlier draft was set aside. Their story sends the Enterprise to the frontier starbase Yorktown and then strands the crew on Altamid, where they face Krall, played by Idris Elba, and meet the scavenger Jaylah.
Jung also has a brief on-screen part as Ben, who greets Sulu at Yorktown with their young daughter. The moment established that the alternate-reality Sulu, played by John Cho, is in a same-sex marriage.