Walter Koenig

Walter Koenig as Pavel Chekov in Koenig's short story "Chekov's Challenge".

Walter Koenig is the actor who portrayed Pavel Chekov in Star Trek: The Original Series and the first seven Star Trek movies, as well as in a number of video games. In 2023 he performed the voice of Chekov's son Anton Chekov for Picard. For Star Trek, Koenig has written an episode, a comic, a short story, and a reference book.

He has also appeared in Gene Roddenberry's series The Lieutenant and his pilot for The Questor Tapes. Although Koenig was unable to reprise Chekov for the tightly-budgeted TAS, Koenig penned the story "The Infinite Vulcan" for TAS season 1. The retlaw plant in the story was an in-joke, his first name-spelled backwards. He was able to reprise his role for fan films such as Of Gods and Men, New Voyage's To Serve All My Days, and Renegades.

Outside of Star Trek, he is best known for portraying Level 12 Psi Cop Alfred Bester in Babylon 5. Koenig wrote a notable episode of Land of the Lost for show-runner David Gerrold, "The Stranger", which introduced the time-displaced Sleestak Enik. He also wrote and starred in the independent film InAlienable. He has published two memoirs, Warped Factors and Beaming Up and Getting Off: Life Before and Beyond Star Trek. He released the novel Buck Alice and the Actor Robot, the Malibu Comics series Raver, and — based on H.G. Wells' novel — the miniseries Things to Come. He voiced himself, as a head in a jar, in Futurama.

Star Trek bibliography

Author

• "The Infinite Vulcan" (TAS, 1973)
• Chekov's Enterprise (Pocket Books, 1980)
• "Chekov's Choice" (DC Comics, 1985)
• "Chekov's Challenge" (with Chris McAuley, Star Trek: Explorer, 2024)

Voice actor

• The Original Series
  • 25th Anniversary (1992)
  • Judgment Rites (1993)
  • Starfleet Academy (1997)
  • Starfleet Academy: Chekov's Lost Missions (1998)
  • Shattered Universe (as Chekov and the mirror universe's Pavel Chekov, 2003)
• The Next Generation
  • Generations (1997)
• Star Trek Online
  • STO - Future Proof mission: "Temporal Reckoning" (2015)
  • STO - Future Proof mission: "Ragnarok" (2015)
  • STO - Future Proof mission: "Battle of Procyon V" (2015)
  • STO mission: "Earthward Bound" (archive audio, 2016)
  • STO - Agents of Yesterday mission: "Return to Babel" (2016)
• Star Trek: Picard
  • "The Last Generation" (as Anton Chekov, 2023)

Performer

The Original Series

• "Catspaw"
• "Friday's Child"
• "Who Mourns for Adonais?"
• "Amok Time"
• "The Apple"
• "Mirror, Mirror" (as Chekov and the mirror universe's Pavel Chekov)
• "The Deadly Years"
• "I, Mudd"
• "The Trouble with Tribbles"
• "Bread and Circuses"
• "Journey to Babel"
• "A Private Little War"
• "The Gamesters of Triskelion"
• "Obsession"
• "The Immunity Syndrome"
• "A Piece of the Action"
• "By Any Other Name"
• "Patterns of Force"
• "The Ultimate Computer"
• "Assignment: Earth"
• "Spectre of the Gun"
• "Elaan of Troyius"
• "The Paradise Syndrome"
• "The Enterprise Incident"
• "And the Children Shall Lead"
• "Spock's Brain"
• "Is There in Truth No Beauty?"
• "The Tholian Web"
• "For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky"
• "Day of the Dove"
• "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield"
• "The Mark of Gideon"
• "The Lights of Zetar"
• "The Way to Eden"
• "The Savage Curtain"
• "Turnabout Intruder"
• The Motion Picture
• The Wrath of Khan
• The Search for Spock
• The Voyage Home
• The Final Frontier
• The Undiscovered Country

The Next Generation

• Generations

Deep Space Nine

• "Trials and Tribble-ations" (archive footage)

Appendices

Images

"The Infinite Vulcan"

"Chekov's Choice"

"Chekov's Challenge"

Koenig as Chekov in 1967.

Koenig as Chekov in 1994.

External links

• Walter Koenig article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.
• Walter Koenig article at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
• Walter Koenig's website.