Walter Koenig

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.