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December 25th, 2020 - Walter Koenig - Beaming Up and Getting Off
Walter Koenig is an actor, writer, teacher, producer, and now a Jacobs/Brown Press author. You know Walter for playing Chekov on Star Trek, and Alfred Bester in Babylon 5. Besides this two continuing roles, Walter has been a familiar face on television for five decades, with roles on prime-time network series such as Gene Roddenberry’s The Lieutenant, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, Mr. Novak, Ben Casey, Gidget, I Spy, Mannix, Medical Center, The Virginian, Ironside, The Starlost, Diagnosis: Murder, and Columbo (with William Shatner), among many others. His screenwriting credits include Land of the Lost, The Powers of Matthew Star, the 2007 film InAlienable, and Star Trek: The Animated Series. Walter’s books include Chekov’s Enterprise: A Personal Journal of the Making of Star Trek - The Motion Picture (1980); Buck Alice and the Actor-Robot (1988), Warped Factors: A Neurotic’s Guide to the Universe (1998), the graphic novel Walter Koenig’s Things to Come, and Beaming Up and Getting Off: Life Before and Beyond Star Trek (2020). And you can be sure Walter’s new book includes stories of a life in Star Trek, too!