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We regret to inform you Walter konieg the first actor to play Chekhov has died at 90.

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Nuclear Wessels

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laika's picture

Sad, but 90 is a pretty good run. Wikipedia just says "natural causes at his home in Hollywood"
Really hope his last days weren't too awful + his passing was as peaceful as can be expended.
And I just said nuclear wessels because that's probably my favorite Chekov line
that doesn't involve a genetically mutated Ricardo Montalban
jamming a mind control insect thing in his ear...
~Rest in Peace, Tovarisch, Laika

The forest was shrinking but the trees kept voting for the axe,
for the axe had convinced them that because his handle
was made of wood he was one of them.

Reminder

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Daphne Xu's picture

Thanks reminding me of the movie and the scene. I was thinking of the phrase/trope, "Chekov's Gun".

-- Daphne Xu

One of my favorite episodes with Chekov…….

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D. Eden's picture

Was always The Trouble With Tribbles.

In his classic Russian accent, Chekov asserts that the region of space the Enterprise was traveling through was first charted by a Russian, whereupon Spock points out it was a British astronomer. He then later asserts that quadrotriticale was created in Russia, and Spock corrects him that it was Canada. But my favorite Chekov line is when Scotty compares his vodka to “soda pop”, he responds that Scotch was "inwented by a little old lady from Leningrad."

I also remember him playing the recurring role of Bester in Babylon 5 - yet another show which ended too soon.

So, now we have lost two Chekovs………. Anton Yelchin and Walter Konig.

God I feel old.

D. Eden

“Hier stehe ich; ich kann nicht anders. Gott helfe mir.”

Dum Vivimus, Vivamus

Anton

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Best line.
Wicker wicker two.
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Ay ya yoy!

I read this

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...and immediately thought, "But Chekhov died in 1904" before spotting a Skeet on Bluesky from George Takei ('Sulu')

I remember spotting Koenig in a cheapo called 'Moontrap' in which he, er, played the dashing romantic action hero who gets the glamour girl...

First Chekov, now Picard...

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laika's picture

RIP Patrick Stewart.
Shit, these are disheartening times
I could use some good news on November 3rd!
~Ronni

The forest was shrinking but the trees kept voting for the axe,
for the axe had convinced them that because his handle
was made of wood he was one of them.

You know you’re old……..

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D. Eden's picture

When all your heroes and favorite stars keep passing beyond the veil.

Every year it seems like the list doesn’t just get longer, but closer to home.

D. Eden

“Hier stehe ich; ich kann nicht anders. Gott helfe mir.”

Dum Vivimus, Vivamus