Everyone knows Walter as Chekov ("You know grieving was a Russian inwention!"), but I will never forget his magnificent bastard energy playing Bester of the Psi Corps in Babylon 5. (again, the celebrities seem to be passing in clumps)
My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.