{"id":8109,"date":"2010-01-08T15:33:34","date_gmt":"2010-01-08T23:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=8109"},"modified":"2010-01-08T15:40:59","modified_gmt":"2010-01-08T23:40:59","slug":"star-trek-magazine-preview-walter-koenig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2010\/01\/star-trek-magazine-preview-walter-koenig\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Trek Magazine Preview: Walter Koenig"},"content":{"rendered":"

Issue twenty-three of the official Star Trek<\/em> magazine celebrates the thirtieth anniversary of Star Trek: The Motion Picture<\/em> and original series’ Walter Koenig<\/strong> (Chekov) shared his memories of the film.<\/p>\n

Koenig recalled seeing Star Trek: The Motion Picture<\/em> at a premiere in Washington, D.C. “The preamble to it all was great,” he recalled during a wide ranging interview in a North Hollywood restaurant to acknowledge the upcoming 30th anniversary of the film and his journal of the experience, Chekov\u2019s Enterprise<\/em>. “The limos and the red carpet were extraordinary. The film started and I thought the first five minutes were terrific. The music was driving. It was almost like the beginning of Jaws<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

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Koenig’s experience in making the film was documented in Chekov’s Enterprise<\/em>, a journal he kept during the making of the movie.<\/em> Koenig was asked if he already had a deal in place with Pocket Books before writing the journal. “No,” answered Koenig. “I just did it because I thought that coming back the way we did, making this film after being off the air for ten years was unprecedented. I thought it was worth documenting, and that it would be an interesting historical document to look back at.”<\/p>\n

One of the things Koenig mentioned in Chekov’s Enterprise<\/em> was that it would be tough to “go home” again playing Chekov in The Motion Picture<\/em>. Did Koenig change his mind as the Star Trek<\/em> films progressed? “Yeah. I guess I did,” said Koenig. “I must have. I mean I did six more films. When we started working on that movie, I did feel like I was exhuming a ghost, and that I was so old that I could not play the character of Chekov properly. But as it turned out, it was also very stimulating to find myself in that place again.”<\/p>\n

Would Koenig take a role in the next Star Trek<\/em> movie? “If it was something as substantial as what Leonard<\/strong> [Nimoy<\/strong>] did in this last movie, I would leap at it,” said Koenig. “If it was just standing there at the end of the movie being Chekov\u2019s grandfather, forget it.”<\/p>\n

The official Star Trek<\/em> magazine is on sale now at newsstands and comic book stores. A different exclusive cover (seen below on the right) will only be sold at comic book stores.<\/p>\n

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