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Star Trek star Walter Koenig dead at 90

Star Trek star Walter Koenig dead at 90

Walter Koenig with wife and daughter at the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Photo: s_bukley / Shutterstock

Walter Koenig, famed for his role as the villainous telepath Alfred Bester in Babylon 5 and as Star Trek's Pavel Chekov, is dead at 90. A representative confirmed his death this morning.

Koenig was born in Chicago in 1936; the child of Russian Jewish immigrants, he did not pursue acting until after college.

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