If there's one similarity I wish between Walter Koenig and PsiCop Bester - I hope he passed the same way - laughing at the absurdity of the universe.

In about half a minute, we learn some essentials: he's a telepath, he's a Psi Cop, and he's probably something of an elitist, since, while telepathy is demonstrably efficient here, it's also kind of a dick way to interact with normals. He also seems annoyed at having to interact with the guard at all (ironic, considering what we later learn about that guard).

And you gotta love that animated business card.

Even though Bester screwing with Garibaldi is a guilty pleasure, my favorite episode is Ship of Tears. It showed that even his people, Psychics weren't safe from the Shadows. You could see that Fear in his eyes.

I just saw this episode for first time. Every frame from start to the end is EPIC

I hope show just goes better and better.

The model is primed and I have decided that in remembrance of Walter Koenig I'll paint it as Psi Corps in honor of Mr. Bester. I will see if the decals held up if not I'll make a stencil of the Corps symbol.

Dust wasn’t featured in many episodes or very significant in the overall plot . . . I wonder if it was originally going to play a slightly more significant role?

I also wonder how it was made? A thought crossed my mind that it might possibly been made with Telepaths themselves from corpses or harnessed from live Telepaths.

The main episode for Dust was Dust to Dust
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Many wonderful remembrances and thoughts from JMS, praising Walter Koenig. Here’s an excerpt:

When it was announced that Walter was going to appear in Babylon 5, the usual online asshats did their usual online asshatting. "How many times are they going to have him ask about the nuclear wessels? He's such a one note actor. This is embarrassing."

Chekov was (to a degree) a one-note character because he was written that way.

But that wasn't Walter.

Walter was an entire symphony.

And when Mind War aired, the asshats got real quiet really goddamned fast.

I have so many questions about this, but I think it basically boils down to one thing. After the war, the relationships between most of them had been repaired to some extent. So why didn't Londo tell Sheridan, Ivanova and Delenn about the Shadows and what he'd done with them?

And why didn't Delenn say more about the Drakh? I think she told Sheridan about them, and he questioned both Londo and G'Kar. So when Londo was confronted by the Drakh, why didn't he ask the others for help?

It honestly feels like, at a certain point, the writers were deliberately pushing the characters down a particular path to make certain points, especially when it came to Londo. Because, at least to me, he seemed to have reached a point where he could genuinely transform himself, and I think he did a lot to redeem himself.

Yet, despite everything Londo did for G'Kar, including saving his life and helping free his people, G'Kar still seemed to hold on to his hatred of him. And then, when the Drakh started manipulating events to make it look like the Centauri were behind terrorist attacks, everyone seemed to turn against Londo and the Centauri, despite how far they'd come from their old ways.

I don't know, but from a certain point onwards, I just couldn't make everything fit together logically, especially when it came to Londo, the Drakh and the others. I still feel like I'm having to fill in the gaps myself, and the only explanation I can come up with is that the writers needed things to happen that way to get across the points they wanted to make.

Because I genuinely don't understand how the Drakh managed to get so far without anyone doing anything about it. Not Sheridan, not Delenn, not even G'Kar. For example, G'Kar was actually at the Royal Court, and he knew from what Londo had told him, as well as from what he'd witnessed himself, that something wasn't right. He even mentioned to Sheridan that strange things were happening at the Royal Court involving Londo.

And let's not forget that Londo himself spoke to Sheridan and Delenn before becoming Emperor, asking them to always remember him as a friend.

I just can't make sense of it. Every time I think about it, I end up feeling like this is the one really stupid thing about the show. And whenever I've tried to explain it to myself, I've come back to the same conclusion: the writers needed things to unfold this way to make the points they wanted to make.

But even so, I still think it's poorly written in places, and that you're basically expected to look the other way and pretend these inconsistencies aren't there.

It wasn’t nearly like it was now but the internet did EXIST in the 90s so why was there no incorporation into a show about the future? They have 90s watershed journalism in the form of ISN but then get all their current evens from a newspaper.

The man was a legend across the genre and I feel like I've lost an uncle...

For reasons beyond my memories, I've had this clip on my last 3 phones. Always made me laugh - I've told the joke and, when I do it, nobody else does. Obviously my delivery doesn't live up to Walter. A great performance by an underrated actor. RIP.

Tuesday night is random movie night in our household, but for tonight I’ve chosen to have two TV appearances of Walter Koenig.

I’ve discovered one on the Alfred Hitchcock Hour (on Amazon Prime in the US), “Memo from Purgatory”, an episode written by Harlan Ellison and directed by Joseph Pevney (who directed 14 episodes of TOS), with Koenig as the lead antagonist (as near as I can tell; I haven’t watched it yet), with James Caan as the protagonist. **

I haven't decided on the second hour yet. Possibly B5's "Ship of Tears", though I'd appreciate other suggestions. Koenig has an amazingly large list of credits on imdb, but I'm unfamiliar with all except the B5 and Trek episodes. We’ll finish up with his Futurama episode.

When you want to fly a Starfury in No Man's Sky.. you just gotta build it yourself ☺️

Walter Koenig played Pavel Chekov for more than half a century, and he played every joke completely straight.

This tribute follows Chekov’s rise through Starfleet: ensign at the Enterprise’s navigation console, security chief, first officer of the Reliant, and a commander on the bridge at Khitomer. He never got his own command, but he was there for nearly every turning point in the original crew’s history. We also look at Bester on Babylon 5 and Koenig’s final return to Star Trek as President Anton Chekov in Picard.

Episodes and films referenced: Amok Time, The Trouble with Tribbles, The Motion Picture, The Wrath of Khan, The Voyage Home, The Undiscovered Country, Generations, Babylon 5 “Mind War,” Picard “The Last Generation.”

Another beloved cast member has passed away 😥

My best friend wants to get into Babylon 5 and is insane about watching everything. What order would you recommend someone watch the series with the movies included?

I usually forget about them when I do a rewatch, haha.