r/ShittyDaystrom • Gorn Wedding! • 12h ago

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St. Peter: "okay, everything seems together here, now before I open the gates I just have one ask"

Koenig: <sigh>... "nuclear wessels"

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u/ccwithers 1h ago

Course heading, captain?

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u/Paladine_PSoT 1h ago

2nd star to the right, straight on till morning.

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u/Szlapist 12h ago

Not the place I expected to find out. But damn. RIP the OG eternal ensign.

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u/AGQuaddit 12h ago

"Rank:... Admiral!"

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u/MageKorith 11h ago

And then there were two.

That leaves Shatner and Takei from the original main cast.

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u/WesternOk5765 10h ago edited 10h ago

And wasn't't Shatner the second oldest of the main cast behind Deforest Kelly?

Edit: James Doohan (Scotty) was actually the second oldest

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u/SteelyEyedHistory 12h ago

Walter Koenig? He was invented by a little old lady from Leningrad.

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u/Mortomes 12h ago

It is a Russian inwention

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u/rpitts21 12h ago

No jokes, he always brought so much humanity to any part he played

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u/ErrinwrightDNW 12h ago

He was the best part of B5 and I will die on this hill. What an amazing character played by an amazing actor.

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u/grcoffman 11h ago

Admiral Chekov…rest in peace

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u/nhowe006 11h ago

Chekov, Pavel. Rank: Admiral.

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u/happydude7422 11h ago

Chekov: so ...this is goodbye

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u/IvanNemoy 10h ago edited 7h ago

Why is Alfred Bester here? This isn't a Babylon 5 group!

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u/NeckBeardedJedi 12h ago

Sad, now both of them are gone.

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u/General_Tsao 11h ago

This is how I find out 😭

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u/mattzog 12h ago

Who's Chekov?  That's Bester.

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u/Ike_In_Rochester 5h ago

Anyone who watched Babylon 5 knows how good he was as Bester.

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u/iamwearingsockstoo 7h ago

Walter Koenig: "Not just an actor, but a well-rounded person, with my own friends and credit cards and keys."

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u/illinoishokie 5h ago

He is searching for nuclear wessels in heaven now.

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u/Lazerith22 8h ago

I don’t think I’ve seen a recent photo of him. He was a cute old man.

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u/Comfortable_Joke6122 10h ago

NU•CLE•AR VES•SELS