Chekov in TAS?
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I can't see they put him in the www.StarTrek.com cast section.
The animators seem to have slipped a Chekov cameo into one bridge shot. IIRC, this sequence (in "Beyond the Farthest Star") may have been the first panning shot ever created for TAS, like a piece of pilot footage, before they were certain they would be using Arex as regular alien navigator. There's definitely an animated male human, in red shirt and who resembles Chekov, sitting in Arex's navigation seat.
"More Tribbles..." has a different cameo: a redshirted engineering crewman who closely resembles the episode's writer, David Gerrold (below). When novelist Alan Dean Foster saw Gerrold's cheeky script note that a certain unnamed crewman resembles the screenwriter, ADF gave the crewman the name of Hacker - as in "hack writer" - when adapting the ep for "ST Logs".
Curt Danhauser's TAS site has newly-created fan art of many ST characters (Pike, Number One, Rand, Chekov, etc), done in TAS style:
http://www.danhausertrek.com/AnimatedSeries/Timeline.html
Kail Tescar's site has newly drawn adventures, including other ST regulars:
http://startrekanimated.com/tas_comic_main.html
The chase signature cards of the recent TAS trading card set included many TOS characters rendered in the Filmation style, including Edith Keeler, Number One and Thelev the Orion spy who posed as an Andorian.
I included Chekov in the comic "The Patient Parasites" , doing a stint in security, as a forshadowing to his role in TMP.
edit: Wow, they really have built up their TAS section over at startrek.com, nice!
edit: Wow, they really have built up their TAS section over at startrek.com, nice!
Yeah, I believe that Gerrold said on the TAS DVD that one of the characters in "More Tribbles, More Troubles" was drawn in his likeness.
The one time that someone resembling Chekov at the navigation station instead of Arex was a couple of quick shots in "Beyond the Farthest Star" but this person was wearing a red uniform instead of Chekov's usual gold one. All the rest of the shots in BFS had Arex at the navigation console with Sulu.
The one time that someone resembling Chekov at the navigation station instead of Arex was a couple of quick shots in "Beyond the Farthest Star" but this person was wearing a red uniform instead of Chekov's usual gold one. All the rest of the shots in BFS had Arex at the navigation console with Sulu.
Even better: it's Chekov on his last day on bridge duty before heading to Security. (And thanks! I was sure it wasn't MTMT with the redshirt Chekov cameo, but was too tired to get out the DVDs last night.)
Is this it? Anyone got a better freeze frame than this (as it appears on Curt Danhauser's site)?
That freeze frame is of Scotty, not Chekov. Chekov's 'cameo' happens much earlier in the episode.
Yeah, I figured it was too easy - Spock was in the wrong place for the scene I remembered. And navigation's on the other side... Drat.
They should've used Kail's Chekov. I think it's a much better likeness.
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Chekov refuses to be drawn into the debate.
Kail said:
Boooo! Very punny!
Yep, thanks; first you set up the joke... and then you cel it.
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