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Star Trek's Walter Koenig's son found dead
« on: February 26, 2010, 01:20:11 am »
The police say there's no question it was suicide.  Sad.  :(

Actor Andrew Koenig, missing since Feb. 14, was found dead in Vancouver, Canada, on Thursday, CNN is confirming.

The body of the former "Growing Pains" star was discovered in a Vancouver park, as reported earlier Thursday by TMZ.


http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2010/02/police-believe-body-of-former-growing-pains-star-andrew-koenig-found.html

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Re: Star Trek's Walter Koenig's son found dead
« Reply #1 on: February 26, 2010, 02:24:12 am »
That's very sad news.  My sympathies to Walter and his wife.
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Re: Star Trek's Walter Koenig's son found dead
« Reply #2 on: February 26, 2010, 01:16:27 pm »
Did Walter play Chekov?
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Re: Star Trek's Walter Koenig's son found dead
« Reply #3 on: February 26, 2010, 01:28:15 pm »
"It is required of every man that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellow-men, and travel far and wide."--Charles Dickens.

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Re: Star Trek's Walter Koenig's son found dead
« Reply #4 on: February 26, 2010, 09:56:23 pm »

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Re: Star Trek's Walter Koenig's son found dead
« Reply #5 on: February 28, 2010, 02:28:05 am »
This is how weird life gets when you're old-ish. When I was in about third grade, I had a crush on Chekov. I knew his name was Walter Koenig, but I just thought of him as "Chekov." I wrote about my crush in my own secret code in my diary and my friend Julie found it and, because she knew the code, read it out loud, which was momentarily mortifying. I remember watching Star Trek on a family vacation in the summer and dreaming of Chekov.

So! OK. Fine. We all have those.

But what if I'd somehow been told, back then, at age 8, that 40-plus years later I'd be looking at online pictures of him, an old man reacting to an unspeakable tragedy ...

I guess this has always happened, though in past millennia it would have been some other guy in the tribe or village, as opposed to a TV celebrity. We all get old. Me, Chekov, everybody.


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Re: Star Trek's Walter Koenig's son found dead
« Reply #6 on: February 28, 2010, 12:15:36 pm »
Just in case my reference was obscure...

I was using the expression 'old man' in the sense that bikers still use it and hippies used to use it.

If you are married or are seriously in a relationship, that person is your 'old man' or 'old woman'.  Age has nothing to do with it.

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Re: Star Trek's Walter Koenig's son found dead
« Reply #7 on: February 28, 2010, 12:47:03 pm »
Just in case my reference was obscure...

I was using the expression 'old man' in the sense that bikers still use it and hippies used to use it.

If you are married or are seriously in a relationship, that person is your 'old man' or 'old woman'.  Age has nothing to do with it.

I knew how you meant it. I, however, was using "old man" as in, a man who is old.

He is 73. That's the age my dad was when he died.

"Old" isn't an intrinsically pejorative term. It's a neutral descriptive. As a society we make it negative by pathologizing age.


 

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Re: Star Trek's Walter Koenig's son found dead
« Reply #8 on: February 28, 2010, 01:43:43 pm »
 :'( Was sorry to hear about this, and also did not know till this thread that he was Chekov's son ... I too loved Chekov, if not as madly as you Serious...
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Re: Star Trek's Walter Koenig's son found dead
« Reply #9 on: March 02, 2010, 09:37:42 pm »
I had a crush on Ilya Kuriakin, from The Man From U.N.C.L.E. So you're among friends!!
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Re: Star Trek's Walter Koenig's son found dead
« Reply #10 on: March 02, 2010, 10:24:58 pm »
So you're among friends!!

Don't I know it!  :D