WALTER KOENIG ON THE STARLOST (1973) – Fair solar winds and following seas to the late Walter Koenig. Since everybody else has been covering his Star Trek role Pavel Chekov or his movie Moon Trap, Balladeer’s Blog will instead review his two episodes as the alien named Oro on the Canadian sci-fi series The Starlost in 1973.
Back in 2011 I reviewed that Harlan Ellison-created program as part of my Forgotten Television blog posts. The Starlost starred Keir Dullea and featured an enormous, miles-long spaceship of Earthlings looking for a new home planet after a disaster.
I only mentioned Koenig’s two appearances in one sentence in that review, but now I’ll do a deeper look.
EPISODE TEN: THE ALIEN ORO (November 3rd, 1973) – Brace yourself for a villainous Walter Koenig speaking without a Russian accent.
In this first of his two appearances, the spaceship of the humanoid alien Oro crashes into one of the many biospheres on the enormous space ark transporting Earth’s survivors. The computer alerts the show’s main character Devon (Keir Dullea), who takes his love interest Rachel (Gay Rowan) and his hot-headed sidekick Garth (Robin Ward) with him to investigate the damage. Continue reading
