Pavel Chekov

And one of the attractions at Universal Studios back in the late 80s was called the Star Trek Experience, which they later opened in Las Vegas and so forth, where you could actually Go onto the bridge of the Enterprise and play a Star Trek character.

In my part for this segment that we did for this travel show I did, I played the part of Chekov sitting at navigation and wearing the Star Trek uniform.

And people did it all day long, and my television crew was filming this as I was doing this.

I've got the videotape in my attic of it.

Also, some sad news for Star Trek fans.

Walter Koenig, who played Ensign Chekov on the original television series, has died at the age of 90.

Now, his death was also announced yesterday.

He appeared in seven Star Trek movies and actually grew up here in Manhattan.

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nothing I want to plug as usual, but I will pay my respects that today as we tape this, we learned that Walter Koenig, Chekov from the original Star Trek series, has passed away.

And yes, he was 90 years old.

He's actually older than my parents, so that's a pretty damn good life.

He will be missed.

Walter Koenig, a mainstay of the Star Trek franchise as Pavel Chekhov, the Russian navigator aboard the USS Enterprise, died on a Sunday at his home in the north of Hollywood.

He was 90 years old.

He died of death.

Gene Roddenberry, the creator of Star Trek, had been told that young viewers considered the show's leads, William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy, who were both 35 years old at the time when the series began, that they were practically middle-aged.

They needed somebody young.

So Chekhov was positioned as a younger type, and remember he had kind of a Beatles haircut.

It was a Vig.

back in the day.

And another pretty big actor for me, and maybe for you as well, some years after the Looney Tunes, of course, more up into my teens, the man who played the Russian navigator Chekhov on the original Star Trek, Walter Koenig.

Yeah, he died yesterday at the age of 90 at his home in Hollywood.

So just wanted to get those in there.

William Shatner, the lead of that.

Walter Koenig, who played Chekhov.

in the original, has passed away.

He was 90 years old, and his former co-star George Takei honored him on Instagram, paying tribute to their decades-long friendship.

Apparently, he made his very last cameo as a voice cameo in 2023, where he did a voiceover at the end of the series finale of Star Trek Picard, where he voiced Anton Chekhov.

the president of the United Federation of Planets, who was the son of the character he originally played, who, of course, was Pavel Chekhov.

So he is passed at age 90.

I know for a lot of Trek fans, there's a lot of big Trekkies out there.

Apparently, he made his very last cameo as a voice cameo in 2023, where he did a voiceover at the end of the series finale of Star Trek Picard, where he voiced Anton Chekhov.

the president of the United Federation of Planets, who was the son of the character he originally played, who, of course, was Pavel Chekhov.

So he is passed at age 90.

I know for a lot of Trek fans, there's a lot of big Trekkies out there.

We recorded this episode in the middle of the day on Monday, the three of us.

And then not long after we'd finished recording, the news broke that Walter Koenig, who, of course, we all know as Pavel Chekhov from the original series onwards, passed away at age 90.

And we wanted to open the episode just acknowledging his death.

Absolutely phenomenal addition to Star Trek.