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Walter Koenig Talks New Memoir, Closure With William Shatner, And Putting Chekov Behind Him

posted 4 years ago by Satan2016 (23278)
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Upset that he had minor parts in half the movies. Didn't know he wrote a TAS episode.

https://trekmovie.com/2020/05/18/interview-walter-koenig-talks-new-memoir-closure-with-william-shatner-and-putting-chekov-behind-him/

Walter Koenig appeared as Pavel Chekov in Star Trek: The Orginal Series as well as in seven Trek feature films. The actor has just released Beaming Up and Getting Off: Life Before and Beyond Star Trek, an update to his 1998 autobiography Warped Factors. TrekMovie spoke to Koenig about the new book and his time in the final frontier.

Speaking of conventions, your updated memoir has a recent story regarding yourself and a candid conversation you had with William Shatner backstage. Your first memoir also had a few candid Shatner stories as well, do you think this recent, and somewhat awkward moment backstage at STLV, is going to be as good as you get for closure with Bill?

CBS is developing multiple Star Trek projects. At one point there was even some consideration to bringing back Nichelle to play Uhura for one of their new Short Treks. I know you returned to the role of Chekov for some independent films a few years back, but would you consider it for official Star Trek, if approached?

[–] mikethemartian (6058) 7 months ago

I heard that he actually relished playing Bester on Babylon 5 more than playing Chekov.

[–] liscarkat (16483) 7 months ago

Why put Chekov behind him? If it hadn't been for Chekov, nobody would've ever heard of him and he wouldn't have had a half-century-plus of notoriety based entirely on one role and the never-ending whingeing about William Shatner, which he and George Takei have made into an industry. He'd just be some forgotten old dude who had a few bit parts in 1960s tv shows.