RIP Anton Yelchin. Taken away from us far too soon.
this post was submitted on 19 Nov 2023
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I was talking with a friend a couple days ago about him and the fact that he has left a pretty huge mark on Trek. I also love how they've referenced him twice in Trek as well.
Season 3 of Discovery has that whole Burn thing going on. Burnham goes looking for the 'black boxes' of the various ships. One of the ones she gets, an important one, is called the USS Yelchin. Then Season 3 of Picard had their own honor that they gave him. In the final episode there's a broadcast from the 'President of the Federation'. It's voiced by Walter Koenig, playing the son of his Chekov, but the name that they gave him? Anton Chekov.
Indeed taken from us far too soon.
I'm not a big fan of the Kelvin movies, to the point that I've only watched each one once. I don't remember a lot about them, but he was pretty unforgettable.
That's fair. My tastes in Trek run counter to what most peoples do. I'm not an ENORMOUS fan of the Kelvin movies, but I enjoy them for what they are and will turn 'em on occasionally. The two biggest things I look for? Simon Pegg and Anton Yelchin. Everytime. Kinda hard not to love them. Bruce Greenwood as Pike was pretty great too considering he had a lot of room to work with given (at the time) almost no development of that character.
Karl Urban is always a treat as well
I enjoy them all, but I definitely can't put the use of a "cold fusion" bomb to freeze a volcano out of my mind.
That's... Not how any of this works. In trek or out.
I didn't like the first two, but Beyond is one of my top Trek movies.
Any time I see a problem I can solve with one of my amateur hobbies (lock picking, 3d printing, etc), him saying "I can do that" is always the first thing that comes to mind.
He's also a highlight of Green Room, which also stars Patrick Stewart.
And because of what would otherwise be a minor oversight, too. RIP.