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Walter Koenig Says NEW VOYAGES Wraps His Career

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By GustavoLeao / 04:18, 8 December 2005 / General Star Trek

STAR TREK actor Walter Koenig talks to Wired Magazine about his return to the role of Pavel Chekov in an upcoming episode of STAR TREK NEW VOYAGES online series. In "To Serve All My Days", written by D.C. Fontana, the younger Chekov is suddenly aged and has to deal with living out his twilight years.



"This was the episode I never got to play and never would get to play," Koenig says. "I've never had the opportunity to do something that required more than reading off Warp Factor numbers on the navigation console."

"I don't mean to be morbid, but I did have a quadruple bypass 13 years ago," Koenig says. "This might be a really good wrap for my career."

Since Paramount is not producing new STAR TREK at the moment, Koenig said "Paramount is licking its wounds. But that doesn't mean the people can't rise up and defend STAR TREK. In the absence of the ruling class, the peasantry has picked up their pitchforks and shovels and gone into battle."

"To Serve All My Days" will likely be released in January

The full article, which contains quotes from the NEW VOYAGES team and spoilers for "To Serve All My Days" and the first photo of Koenig as Chekov in the episode, can be found here.



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By: The Magrathean (Odo's file, contact) @ 15:07:23 on Dec 14, 2005

I don't think TOS was an ensemble show either. But I don't think the TOS cast has been complaining because they weren't given equal footing with Shatner -- I think it's because they feel he's always been looking only to his own best interest, as opposed to Star Trek as a whole.

Harlan Ellison related a story where Shatner wanted to read the original draft of "City on the Edge of Forever" the moment Ellison wrote it, and drove out to the writer's house to do so. After reading the script for the first time, Shatner went back rapidly over the pages. Ellison wondered what he was doing until he realized Shatner was line counting -- to see who had more lines, Kirk or Spock! It's that kind of pettiness that I suspect has irked a lot of people.

Obviously, Kirk is the focus of (original) Trek, so he's going to get the most screen time. But there's such a thing as going too far in hogging the limelight, and even if Shatner's artistic choices are justified, he has probably acted ungraciously.

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RE: He doesn't remember?... by mustangman289 @ 07:25:02 on Dec 15
    RE: He doesn't remember?... by The Magrathean @ 16:55:45 on Dec 16
       RE: He doesn't remember?... by mustangman289 @ 08:11:27 on Dec 17

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By: katefan (Odo's file, contact) @ 05:53:20 on Dec 13, 2005

Agreed. TOS was about the big three, and it was only later series that the shows became ensemble casts. This worked to the benefit of the latter series overall because it opened more story ideas.

The mistake with Enterprise is it seemed to return to the big three formula, focusing on Archer, Trip and T'Pol for the most part. Hoshi and Mayweather became all but useless junior characters for a majority of the series, not even garnering promotions by series end (they were still ensigns in TATV). Reed's rivalry with the head of the MACOs in season three was not nearly fleshed out enough, but at least they gave him something to do in season for with section 31.

Phlox was a good character and he was given more to do, but I still think in the end the show was about the new big three.

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