Walter Koenig: Teen Idol?

[Maurice]

So...that was his actual hair? I mean, criminey, it looks like a comb-over, which surely wasn't necessary at Walter's tender age?

Whether it was a wig or his hair, why was it styled so weirdly? Davy Jones' hair didn't look like that.

I addressed this in THIS topic a while back <clicky>, but here's the relevent quote:

...[Walter] wore the full wig at first, til his hair grew out. But at some point he started wearing a rug to cover a bald spot he had as early as his audition. As he related on page 180 of "Warped Factors" (hardcover):

He [Fred Phillips] leaned closer. "Your hair is thinning in the back. You better come with me."
...He whipped out a can of something called Nestles, Streaks and Tips. The brown spray covered the island of withering follicles at my crown and thus began my life of deception on Star Trek: ... and the resolute assault of male-pattern baldness was, at least temporarily, obscured by the magic of the paint can.

 

[Neopeius]

I'm not a girl, and my attraction to Chekov wasn't sexual, but I thought he was really cool when I was a kid.

Later, I came to like Sulu a lot more.

 

[Saxman1]

I am male and straight, but I liked Chekov as a character because he always seemed to get into trouble. Who can't relate to that?

 

[JustKate]

Well, sure - the character is fine. It's the "teen idol" premise that has found some resistance in this thread. Thus far, anyway. No doubt there were girls (and presumably boys) around at the time who thought Walter Koenig was just dreamy (or, in the lexicon of the day, "Sooooooo cuuuuuuute!"), but if so, they haven't posted here yet.

 

[Steve67]

Well, sure - the character is fine. It's the "teen idol" premise that has found some resistance in this thread. Thus far, anyway. No doubt there were girls (and presumably boys) around at the time who thought Walter Koenig was just dreamy (or, in the lexicon of the day, "Sooooooo cuuuuuuute!"), but if so, they haven't posted here yet.

Or better still, pictures from the "teen mags" of the day to see if Koenig actually was marketed as such.

 

[JustKate]

I would love to see those as well. But then, I've hardly ever seen a teen mag, even when I was a teen.