SCIFI.COM | Star Trek: Pavel Chekov

In addition to acting, Walter Koenig is an accomplished director, screenwriter, novelist, acting professor, and comic book creator.

Koenig currently portrays Alfred Bester in the TV series Babylon 5. His first book, Chekov's Enterprise, was published in 1979. In addition to a satiric fantasy novel, Buck Alice and the Actor-Robot, Koenig wrote a comic book series "Raver." In 1998, he published a memoir of his Star Trek experience entitled Warped Factors: A Neurotic's Guide to the Universe. Koenig's one-character piece "You're Never Alone When You're A Schizophrenic," was a finalist in the 1996 New York Film Festival Awards.

Biographic information provided by Star Trek: Continuum.

Character: Pavel Chekov
Played By: Walter Koenig
Full Name: Pavel Andreievich Chekov
Serial number: 656-5827-B
Year of birth: 2245
Education: Starfleet Academy, 2263-67
Marital status: Single
Service record: Ensign, U.S.S. Enterprise.

Though only a "green" Academy graduate, Chekov early on showed the skills and talents that soon landed him regular bridge duty as navigator. Soon, no less than Spock became impressed with his promise and often assigned him as assistant science officer despite his command-division designation.

Chekov did betray his youthful passions at times -- including his own reputation as a ladies' man -- but always proved to be the perfect officer in training. Still, his penchant for being injury-prone was matched only by a zealous pride in his Russian heritage -- often comically taking credit for the exploits of other cultures, Earth-based or otherwise.