anton viktorovich yelchin played chekov in the new star trek movies.
anton viktorovich yelchin played chekov in the new star trek movies.
who played chekov in the new star trek movies?
anton viktorovich yelchin
anton viktorovich yelchin (}; march 11, 1989 – june 19, 2016) was an american actor. he played pavel chekov in three "star trek" films: "star trek" (2009), "star trek into darkness" (2013), and the posthumously released "star trek beyond" (2016). born to a russian jewish family in leningrad, yelchin and his family moved to the united states when he was a baby. in the late 1990s, yelchin began appearing in television and film roles. his role in steven spielberg's miniseries "taken" helped further his career. yelchin also starred in "huff", the films "hearts in atlantis", "alpha dog", and "like crazy", and the posthumously released "trollhunters".
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bullet::::- walter koenig as pavel chekov, the "reliant"s first officer and a former "enterprise" crewmember. during filming, kelley noted that chekov never met khan in "space seed" (koenig had not yet joined the cast), and thus khan's recognizing chekov on ceti alpha did not make sense. "star trek" books have attempted to rationalize this discrepancy; in the film's novelization by vonda n. mcintyre, chekov is "an ensign assigned to the night watch" during "space seed" and met khan in an off-screen scene. the non-canonical novel "" fixes the error by having chekov escort khan to the surface of ceti alpha after the events of the television episode. the real cause of the error was a simple oversight by the filmmakers. meyer defended the mistake by noting that arthur conan doyle made similar oversights in his sherlock holmes stories. chekov's screaming while being infested by the ceti eel lead koenig to jokingly dub the film "star trek ii: chekov screams again", in reference to a similar screaming scene in "the motion picture".
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