Hail and farewell...
#WalterKoenig Has Died at 90. He Played #Chekov on ‘#StarTrek.’
As the baby-faced Russian navigator of the U.S.S. Enterprise, he was a mainstay of the original television series and seven films.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/26/arts/television/walter-koenig-chekov-star-trek-dead.html
Fave #Chekov moment from "The Deadly Years" (among quite a few in this YT vid)
Another #Chekov moment from "The Way to Eden." He explains to Irina that he & Spock are using the ship's computers to look for Eden.
Her take is interesting in 2026.
IRINA: Do you know all these things?
CHEKOV: What I do not know I find out from the computer banks. If, if I knew nothing at all, I could navigate the ship simply by studying what is stored in there. They contain the sum of all human knowledge. They solve our problems of navigation. Of control. Of life support.
IRINA: They tell you what to do, and you do what they tell you.
CHEKOV: No. We use our own judgment also.
IRINA: I could never obey a computer.
