I guess he routinely stopped in front of the gate to get his mail out of the box? This one time he didn’t set the parking break.
One careless moment ends a promising career
Anton and most of the Trek TOS series are reunited now. Telling stories about serving on the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701.
That’s sad.
Seems like he must have set the parking brake at least partially. If he hadn’t, wouldn’t the car have immediately started rolling backwards?
In shock.
It could have been on a very slight incline and when he ran back, it rolled slowly, only picking up speed as it reached him.
My guess is that people at Paramount are desperately trying to figure out how this changes marketing of the new Star Trek film. It’s supposed to premiere at the end of next month. Do they run commercials emphasizing his character? Could, perhaps, the film be rewritten to give his character a noble death scene?
Poor guy. I’ve had the same happen to me. I hate the fucking electronic parking brakes. With the old manual lever it never happened. On my new VW the parking brake is a small button you push down to unlock and pull up to lock. And you have to do it while pressing the brake pedal.
To me the natural action would be push to lock, but by analogy with the old system it is reversed. And there is no feedback at all other than a tiny light. And you have to remeber to engage the foot pedal at the same time.
Fucking thing will get me killed some day. RIP Anton.
“The navigator is inside out…and he exploded.”
Anyone find any pictures of the driveway (Google Earth or whatever)?
Daily Mail has some pictures:
It’s my understanding that he was a single father. I don’t know the details about why there is no mother in the child’s life.
His parents were world class Soviet ice skaters, who were forbidden to travel to the Olympics because they were Jews.
Well I think it’s a given that it’ll be dedicated to his memory, but beyond that it’s too late to make any changes.
TMZ has photos.
I loved Alpha Dog. R.I.P. Anton.
Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto are under contact to appear in a fourth Star Trek film, should one be made. I guess that depends on the box office for the upcoming film. As for Chekov, they could always promote him to lieutenant and have him transferred off-ship. Perhaps to the USS Reliant?
I don’t get this. Everyone puts their car in “Park.” Never in my life have I left the car in neutral and applied the hand brake. Am I missing something here?
Chekov is an integral part of the Star Trek oeuvre; they’ll just recast him; no one will care. There’s plenty of examples of franchises re-casting characters and it never matters to audiences at all (Iron Man franchise, Dark Knight franchise, etc.).
Apparently you’ve never driven a manual transmission car.
Lest anyone panic that they missed news of somebody’s death, it’s still only half of the main TOS cast dead.
William Shatner, Nichelle Nichols, George Takei and Walter Koenig are all still alive and well.
They’ll dedicate the movie to him and he’ll be written out. There won’t be another Chekov.