TVC 661.4: Ed and guest co-host Chuck Harter welcome back actor, author, producer, director, screenwriter, and novelist Walter Koenig (Star Trek, Babylon 5). Walter’s memoir Beaming Up and Getting Off: Life Before and Beyond Star Trek is a delightfully candid, often poignant, and

very insightful read that walks you through his growing up years as the son of Russian immigrants in 1940s Manhattan; his formative years as an actor with the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York (where his classmates included Christopher Lloyd, Jessica Walter, Dabney Coleman, Brenda Vaccaro, Elizabeth Ashley, and James Caan); his lifelong love of theatre; and his deep appreciation for the many opportunities that Star Trek has given him. Beaming Up and Getting Off is available in hardcover and as an eBook through Jacobs Brown Media Group. Topics this segment include the through line between Walter’s three appearances on Mr. Novak and how he was eventually cast as Chekhov on Star Trek in 1967.

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