Malfador Shuts Down

[Randallw]

Isn't it funny how the poor bastard apparently never made it very far in Starfleet? In the final TOS movie, Sulu is captain of the brand-spankin-new Excelsior, and where's Chekov? Still at the helm of the aging Enterprise... Course, same could be said for Uhuru. Scotty and Bones didn't really have much place to go, but what about poor Pavel Chekov?

I once read that there was an idea running about once during TNG to have an episode where Chekov is discovered by the Enterprise. The idea was that he had been captured by an alien race and held prisoner since TOS. I don't know how they would handle his age, but the idea was that he would be bitter at the idea that the Federation had abandoned him to a POW camp.