-=> Al Kaiser wrote to Flavio Bessa <=-

 FB> They might kill him off (which would be a blasphemy) or get
 FB> him promoted and reassigned to another ship... The possibilities
 FB> are endless

 AK> I'm betting they will they will try and find someone else to take the
 AK> character.
 AK> Checkov was too much a part of the storyline to write him out so
 AK> early.  Not
 AK> the first time a character was replaced with a different actor.

 Replacing a character with another actor is something that they never did. 

 It might work somehow, but... Star Trek is so personal, let's see. 



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... 2 + 2 = 5 for extremely large values of 2.

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