Why didn't Chekov ever make Captain?

[Lance]

^ One (possibly apocryhal) story that I heard was that Walter Koenig encouraged the extras playing the journalists to refer to him as 'Captain Chekov' in their adlibbed chatter during the scene where the TOS trio first walk into the Ent-B bridge, but it got picked up by somebody when they were watching the dailies and it was wiped out in the sound looping session afterwards.

Whatever the case, Chekov clearly isn't wearing the rank.

 

[Armored Saint]

Actually, Chekov was a last minute addition to that film. Every line that Chekov had was supposed to be for McCoy, but De Kelley declined to appear. But Walter Koenig agreed to do it, so Chekov was put into the film and got every McCoy line.

Damn, his behavior on Enterprise-B was a good for him, but it's clear he was acting so McCoyish.

Oh, and as we can see in The Deadly Years, having a higher rank than Captain doesn't mean you're good to command a starship.

I don't think the Ceti Alpha incident would have get him a black mark on Starfleet files. It's surely noted that he's a desaster as historian, but it's not his own fault if this system had not been pointed out as having Khan somehere.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Let's face it... when you're XO of a ship and manage to let it get hijacked by a wrathful madman who you just happened to forget about who steals a weapon of mass destruction which creates a cold war style conflict between the Federation and Klingon Empire, your file isn't at the top of the promotion list.

Kirk managed to get his ship hijacked several times a year and made admiral. I don't think Starfleet is too picky.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Actually, Chekov was a last minute addition to that film. Every line that Chekov had was supposed to be for McCoy, but De Kelley declined to appear. But Walter Koenig agreed to do it, so Chekov was put into the film and got every McCoy line.

Damn, his behavior on Enterprise-B was a good for him, but it's clear he was acting so McCoyish.

In a cut scene he calls Scotty a whiskey blooded wirry-cow.

 

[2takesfrakes]

Chekov's toupée looked worse than The Shats!

 

[Nerys Myk]

Chekov's toupée looked worse than The Shats!

He should have borrowed Kelley's.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

^ One (possibly apocryhal) story that I heard was that Walter Koenig encouraged the extras playing the journalists to refer to him as 'Captain Chekov' in their adlibbed chatter during the scene where the TOS trio first walk into the Ent-B bridge, but it got picked up by somebody when they were watching the dailies and it was wiped out in the sound looping session afterwards.

It wasn't wiped out. Not only can you hear it, but you can see one of the journalists as he says it.

 

[Lance]

^ One (possibly apocryhal) story that I heard was that Walter Koenig encouraged the extras playing the journalists to refer to him as 'Captain Chekov' in their adlibbed chatter during the scene where the TOS trio first walk into the Ent-B bridge, but it got picked up by somebody when they were watching the dailies and it was wiped out in the sound looping session afterwards.

It wasn't wiped out. Not only can you hear it, but you can see one of the journalists as he says it.

I must pay more attention the next time I watch it.