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<…> Chekov actor Walter Koenig wrote a treatment for a movie that would have featured the original cast all forced into retirement for being too old and out of shape, only to be drafted back in to save the day in the middle of a Romulan/Klingon war. At the end of Koenig’s script, all of the crew except for Spock and McCoy would be dead, leaving the two survivors to carry on bickering into old(er) age.<…> 

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