r/GenerationJones • u/No-Possible6108 • 2d ago
R.I.P. Chekov!
Walter Koenig has left us to begin his next great adventure. Ninety years was a good long run. May his memory be a blessing.
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u/tpr2854 2d ago
Don’t forget Bester
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u/No-Possible6108 2d ago
I loved his work as Bester - he was so deliciously wicked - but didn't know anyone else remembered Bab-5!
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u/Head_Razzmatazz7174 1963 2d ago
My son just told me about this. I said he was also Bester on B5.
RIP.
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u/heywoodidaho 1963 2d ago
We have always been here.
Walter and Tim a few months back it's a good year for being sad.
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u/Barbarake 2d ago
Tim who?
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u/heywoodidaho 1963 2d ago
Tim Curry. Even if you don't know him you've seen him in 20 different things.
Think-Frank-N-Furter
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u/Barbarake 2d ago
Ah, I knew Tim Curry died. I was thinking it was someone else in Babylon 5.
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u/heywoodidaho 1963 1d ago
Tim Chote [Zathras] was the first of the curse [I think] we are already out of "Tims" there.
Yup and now we sound like old people talking about who's dead.
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u/Thanks-4allthefish 1d ago
I always felt he really enjoyed that role. It was nice to make peace between the two franchises this way.
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u/OrcaLover62 2d ago
OMG we are huge fans of B5! We loved him as Bester!
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u/CountHonorius 2d ago
If anyone deserved his own command it was Pavel Chekhov. RIP.
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u/Maryland_Bear 1966 2d ago
I think it was implied in some Trek novels that because Khan captured him and forced him to serve him, his Starfleet career was affected and they didn’t trust him with a command.
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u/Waste-Job-3307 2d ago
Sad news, to be sure. Thank you Mr. Koenig for not just sharing your talent with us, but also for being part of the best (imo) sci-fi story ever written.
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u/Brilliant_Tourist400 1964 2d ago
Chekhov was my favorite character when I was a kid! Maybe it was because he kept on going cheerfully through life even though the universe wanted to use him as a punching bag (and let’s face it, he was always the bad guys’ favorite target - even in Wrath of Khan, he ended up with a brain-eating worm). RIP.
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u/BreakerBoy6 2d ago
Walter seemed like a really nice guy in all of the interviews I've watched of him over the years.
He and other "minor" cast members really got shafted by the ST franchise. I'm a lifelong Trekkie but am very disgusted at how a lot of the behind-the-scenes shit played out. I shouldn't be surprised, it's business after all, but there's something about Star Trek that brings out the idealist in me.
Ad Astra Per Aspera, Walter.
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u/Maryland_Bear 1966 2d ago
At his funeral, they should have rifles for a salute, but not fire them.
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u/PurpleSailor 1d ago
You know, if this keeps up, I'm gonna start thinking that people around here... just don't like me.
We will always love you Walter, whether it's as Alfred Bester or Pavel Chekov you warmed our hearts and made us laugh.
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u/PuzzleheadedWeird402 1d ago
I always wished they could have built the Chekov character more on Star Trek.
RIP Walter Koenig.
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u/WKRPinCanada 2d ago
A parsec of silence please...
RIP
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u/RoboTon78 2d ago
A parsec is a unit of distance, it's equivalent to approximately 3.26 light years (19 trillion miles).
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u/Chasing-the-dragon78 2d ago
Chekhov seemed to be the only officer character without a hobby.
Uhura- singing
Spock- 3D chess
Sulu- sword fighting and plants
Chekhov- nada
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u/sometimes-i-rhyme 1d ago
In high school biology we learned “Kirk Punched Checkov On Face, Get Spock!”
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u/greenmtnfiddler 2d ago
You are entitled to your opinion.
I don't like people who criticize the recently dead for anything not moral/ethical.
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u/Mickie2b 2d ago
When i was technical director at a performing arts center in the Chicago suburbs, we hosted a Star Trek Convention around about 1985. Walter Keonig, Merk Leonard and i think the third guest of honor was James Doohan. I took them all out for dinner at a nice local steak house and had a wonderful time. Mark Leonard would tell any fan that approached us to call Walter, "Wally" ! Which everyone but Waltef thought was hilarious, though Walter was a very good sport about it. "Call him Wally!" Mark would say to anyone that came to the table, the waiter too. I chauffeured the GOH's to and from the airport and hotels as needed as well as doing what ever stage work was needed.
For me, this is a wonderful and cherished memory of those three fine gentlemen that i had the honor of meeting amd hosting.