Patrick Stewart, the Olivier award-winning Shakespearean actor who achieved international stardom as Star Trek's Jean-Luc Picard and The X-Men's Professor X, is dead at 86.

Already a distinguished stage and screen presence when he took the role of the Enterprise's new captain, Stewart went on to star as Picard in seven seasons of Star Trek: The Next Generation, three of Picard, four motion pictures, and at least 10 video games. — Read the rest

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Walter Koenig, famed for his role as the villainous telepath Alfred Bester in Babylon 5 and as Star Trek's Pavel Chekov, is dead at 90. A representative confirmed his death this morning.

Koenig was born in Chicago in 1936; the child of Russian Jewish immigrants, he did not pursue acting until after college.

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