Star Trek legend Walter Koenig credits the fans for making the actors realize just how important and beloved their Star Trek: TOS characters are.
Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Star Trek legend Walter Koenig thanks the fans for showing the actors of Star Trek: The Original Series how important their supporting characters really were to the series. Koenig played Ensign Pavel Chekov in TOS seasons 2 and 3, and he reprised the role in 7 movies from 1979's Star Trek: The Motion Picture to 1994's Star Trek Generations.
In an exclusive interview with Screen Rant, Walter Koenig discussed how he and his fellow Star Trek supporting cast mates, Nichelle Nichols , James Doohan , and George Takei didn't realize how much fans loved their characters until they attended a Star Trek convention. Koenig notes how important the fans' "stamp of approval" was. Read his quote below:
We were secondary characters. We were subordinate characters. We were at the end of the episode titles characters, you know. And if we had not gone out on the road, if we had not gone to conventions where 8000 people piled into a hotel in New York, we hadn't realized, or the audience hadn't realized how much they cared for us. And they did in the exchange of ideas between themselves. Then we would never have realized that we were important to the show.
Walter Koenig's favorite of the Star Trek movies he starred in is Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, which he felt gave Chekov, Scotty, Uhura, and Sulu the best character development. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds essentially shows what Star Trek: The Original Series would be like if it were made in the present day. The crew of Strange New Worlds' Starship Enterprise has had their backstories spotlighted in just two seasons, with episodes devoted to specific characters. Lt. Spock has received two Vulcan comedy episodes, Lt.
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