Walter Koenig played Chekov on Star Trek for over 20 years. When he died at 90, William Shatner's goodbye began with: we didn't know each other well.
In the video below, Koenig reveals what it was really like to work next to Captain Kirk.
Koenig joined the original series in 1967 as the young Russian navigator. He stayed through all six movies.
Shatner was the star and, as Koenig put it, the money player. Every shot was set up so that Kirk was in the foreground.
Behind the scenes, the money was just as uneven. George Takei says Shatner's contract guaranteed that if anyone was ever paid more than him, his pay would rise to match. When the rest of the cast asked for the same deal, they were turned down.
None of them ever got a cent from the decades of reruns. And when Star Trek became a cartoon in 1973, Koenig was the one cut from the cast because the budget couldn't fit him.
Koenig says Shatner never tried to be friends with the supporting cast. Only later did he learn how angry Takei really was, and he says Shatner insisted a scene where Sulu is promoted to captain be cut from the movie.
This week, Koenig died, and Patrick Stewart, the captain who came after Kirk, died three days later. Shatner and Takei are now the last two left from the original crew.
Is Shatner's goodbye honest, or should you say more about someone you spent 20 years working with?
We lost a legend in Sir Patrick Stewart on Thursday…
In remembrance, we bring back this INCREDIBLE story told by Thomas Lennon (Lieutenant Jim Dangle) in 2024 about the time he had with Sir Patrick on the set of their Paramount+ Super Bowl commercial
Just when you think you couldn't love Patrick Stewart more, you see this. The man breathed gravitas but lived for the silliest moments.
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Sophie Cunningham is the role model the next generation actually needs.
This kid in the Indiana #8 jersey is locked in. Same point, same energy, same “I belong here” vibe. That’s the impact. Sophie shows up for the youth, hosts camps, tells young girls it’s okay to be feisty, and backs it up with real work off the court. The kids are watching and copying the right things.
🚨 JUST IN: President Trump just WALKED OUT on Halloween and dropped this line
"I came as DONALD TRUMP tonight!" 😅
The dude carried out a flurry of tele-rallies and events today, and has TWO rallies tomorrow.
He is not stopping, not even close 🔥
On Friday the 13th 1987, the first and only time the horror legend Vincent Price performed the monologue from Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” live, ending it with that laugh that still freezes the blood.
Happy Thrillerween X Halloween
#ThrillerChallenge2026#Thrillerween
A firefighter’s gentle embrace calmed a terrified deer on thin ice.
He walked out alone across the fragile surface, patient and careful. When she panicked and broke free, he never gave up. In the end he held her close, and she finally relaxed, as if she knew she was finally safe.
🚨 THE FBI'S DIRTY SECRETS ARE OUT — 700 PAGES UNREDACTED 🚨
The Crossfire Hurricane files have just been released…
And it’s WORSE than anyone imagined.
One name keeps appearing over and over:
💥 Stefan Halper
The “informant” paid to SPY on Donald Trump.
Paid by WHO?
→ THE FBI.
→ YOUR tax dollars.
→ For DECADES.
This wasn’t about “Russia.”
This wasn’t about “collusion.”
This was about:
→ Political espionage.
→ Character assassination.
→ Taking down Trump by any means necessary.
Remember General Mike Flynn?
Halper was the one who spread the lie:
🗣️ “Flynn left a conference alone with Russian women.”
Fake.
Fabricated.
DEBUNKED by the FBI themselves.
But the damage was done.
Flynn’s life — destroyed.
Trump’s campaign — spied on.
And the Deep State walked away untouched.
📢 WHAT THIS MEANS:
⚠️ The FBI didn’t “investigate” Trump.
🚨 THE FBI TARGETED TRUMP.
They paid informants.
They planted lies.
They weaponized the intelligence community against a sitting U.S. President.
The swamp isn’t just real.
IT’S DOCUMENTED.
And now — 700 pages PROVE IT.
The Russia Hoax wasn’t just a scam.
🚨 IT WAS TREASON.
Time for the truth.
Time for accountability.
Time for justice.
BREAKING: The suspect who opened fire on the White House has DIED, the White House has confirmed
President Trump WAS at the White House tonight, but is UNAFFECTED.
He is CONTINUING to work. This President is an absolute FIGHTER.
47 will NOT let the terrorists win! 🇺🇸
BREAKING - Muslims in the UK are left visibly shocked as fed up native-born citizens march through the streets chanting, “Allah, Allah, who the f— is Allah?”
BILL MURRAY: “When I think of how corrupt it all used to be before Trump, it demands we all vote red across the board to give him what he needs for MAGA.”
Do you agree with Bill?
Theo Von gets Joe Rogan with a "deaf Jack Russell," exploding bees and a gas station's "fresh" pizza.
Theo Von: I talked to your buddy Eddie Bravo. That guy's out there. He's like a deaf Jack Russell.
Joe Rogan: A deaf Jack Russell?
Theo: You ever been around one of those dogs? You open the car and next thing you know they're gone. How's he deaf? Because once he goes, you can't get him back. You're sitting there honking the horn.
Joe: I do know what you're talking about.
Theo: Bees are amazing. They're dying from the heat. They're evaporating. They finish and their whole body blows up.
Joe: Is that real? Bring it up, Jamie.
Jamie: At temperatures over 107 degrees Fahrenheit, it's estimated that half of male honeybees will die this way within six hours.
Joe: I thought you were making it up.
Theo: One time my buddy Scott and I did LSD as kids, and we went to Waffle House because it was open. That's the downside of any place that stays open all night. People on drugs come in. My buddy starts laughing so hard he's convulsing, and the waiter starts doing the Heimlich on him. He wasn't choking. He was just losing it, so geeked up on LSD.
Joe: He's not even choking.
Theo: I couldn't speak. I was laughing so hard.
Joe: Did he figure it out?
Theo: I think I disappeared and woke up in the sixth grade.
Theo: Then I'm at a gas station the other day, and the manager comes out. Nice guy, says he's a fan. He says, "We've got fresh baked bread inside, fresh baked pizzas, we bake everything in house." And I'd just been inside. There's nothing fresh in there. Nothing in there ever even knew an animal or a garden. Zero percent chance, bro.
He'd already been inside, and nothing in that gas station had ever met a garden.
Maher: “Pete Hegseth did a flyby over your house.
Rock: “He did not do a flyby over my house. Two Apache helicopters did a flyby over my house. And it was fucking awesome.
Maher: “If Obama was president and did that over Jay-Z's house...
Rock: “Jay Z would say that was fucking awesome.