Today, the idea of anyone other than Patrick Stewart portraying Captain Jean-Luc Picard seems almost unthinkable. Yet when Star Trek: The Next Generation was being assembled in 1987, Stewart was far from the obvious choice, and the search for the actor who would command the new Enterprise took some interesting turns, all of which we’re […]
Walter Koenig, who brought the young Russian navigator Pavel Chekov to life on Star Trek and in the original-cast films, has died at the age of 90. Born in Chicago in 1936 and raised in New York, Koenig studied psychology at UCLA before training at the Neighborhood Playhouse. Early television appearances included Combat!, Mr. Novak, […]
Having been all of 13 when the animated Star Trek made its animated debut on NBC’s Saturday morning lineup in 1973, I was impressed with the fact that the actors were reprising their roles and many of the scripts, which truly did feel as though they could have come from the original series. But even […]