Approximately one hundred loved ones joined the Koenig family at the Inn of the Seventh Ray in Topanga Canyon, California, for the private ceremony.

Walter Koenig’s representative David Moss described the ceremony. “It was a celebration of life,” he said. “All of the family was there and a lot of his actor friends and filmmakers flew down and joined in. It was not all happiness, I must say. There was a lot of sadness, but there were some very nice high points.”

Andrew Koenig took his own life last month after struggling for years with depression.

Koenig’s parents did not speak at the ceremony, but their daughter Danielle and her comedian husband Jimmy Pardo showed a ten-minute film they had created about Andrew’s life.

“It was tough for them (the parents) but there was some closure and I think that was important,” said Moss.

Police found the body today at noon, in Stanley Park. Stanley Park is where Koenig was last seen on February 14, and was one of his favorite places.

More details will be released at a news conference later today, where Koenig’s family will be present and where reporters have been asked to gather. TrekToday will update this story as new details emerge.

The Koenig family is in the thoughts of TrekToday and if this does indeed turn out to be the missing Andrew, our heart goes out to the family.

UPDATE:  The body is indeed that of Andrew Koenig. “My son took his own life,” said his father, Walter. “He was obviously in a lot of pain.”

Koenig went on to say to anyone who was considering suicide “before you make that final decision, check it out again and talk to someone.”

“If you’re one of those people who can’t handle it anymore, you know, if you can learn anything from this, there are people out there who really care. You may not think so and ultimately it may not be enough, but there are people who really care.”

TrekToday offers the Koenig family our sincere condolences in their time of sorrow.

Another news story, one on a killer whale attack at SeaWorld, was given precedence on the show and by the time Larry King was ready for the Koenigs, there was only five minutes left of his hour show, which the Koenigs felt was insufficient time to present their story to the public.

As the program neared its end, just before a commercial break, King promoted the upcoming interview with the Koenigs, panning to a live shot of the couple in Vancouver. But after the commercial, the couple was gone and King did not know what had happened. “I’m told that they left the studio,” he said, “so we’ll take a quick break and find out why.”

After the commercial break, King told his audience that “For some reason unbeknownst to anyone, Walter Koenig, the father of the missing Andrew Koenig, and Judy Levin-Koenig, the mother of the missing Andrew Koenig, left the studio in Vancouver. We checked them out, they were prepared to go on. I said ‘hello,’ they both said ‘hello.’ We said we’d be on in two minutes, they said ‘fine,’ and they got up and left for reasons unknown.”

Danielle Koenig, daughter of Walter and Judy and sister of the missing Andrew, explained why the Koenigs left abruptly. “[Larry King Live] kept pushing the segment back and my dad was growing frustrated,” she said. “When he realized there were only four-and-a-half minutes left, he didn’t feel that was enough time to do my brother justice. So, he left.”

Walter Koenig (Chekov) and family have put out an appeal for help on Koenig’s website in hopes of finding their son, who was expected back in the U.S. on February 16th, but never boarded his flight home.

Best-known to fans as Boner from Growing Pains, Koenig is an actor, producer, director, writer, editor and photographer, as well as an activist.

Koenig was last seen on February 14 in Vancouver, at a bakery in the Stanley Park area of Vancouver, an area he often chose for taking walks. His phone received a text message on the 16th, but has been turned off since then.

Visiting friends in Toronto and Vancouver, Koenig had been expected home on the 16th. His father was concerned due to a letter received on that date from his son, which had a despondent tone. Andrew Koenig suffers from depression.

According to his father, no specific incident caused the disappearance, nor was his son into drugs. “I think it’s something that has been a part of his makeup for a long time,” said Koenig. “There’s no single trauma. There’s no episode. There’s nothing of that nature.”

The Koenigs plan to fly up to Vancouver to look for their son. If anyone has seen Andrew since Valentine’s Day, he or she should contact Detective Raymond Payette of the Vancouver PD at 604-717-2534.

Koenig recalled seeing Star Trek: The Motion Picture at a premiere in Washington, D.C. “The preamble to it all was great,” he recalled during a wide ranging interview in a North Hollywood restaurant to acknowledge the upcoming 30th anniversary of the film and his journal of the experience, Chekov’s Enterprise. “The limos and the red carpet were extraordinary. The film started and I thought the first five minutes were terrific. The music was driving. It was almost like the beginning of Jaws.”

Koenig’s experience in making the film was documented in Chekov’s Enterprise, a journal he kept during the making of the movie. Koenig was asked if he already had a deal in place with Pocket Books before writing the journal. “No,” answered Koenig. “I just did it because I thought that coming back the way we did, making this film after being off the air for ten years was unprecedented. I thought it was worth documenting, and that it would be an interesting historical document to look back at.”

One of the things Koenig mentioned in Chekov’s Enterprise was that it would be tough to “go home” again playing Chekov in The Motion Picture. Did Koenig change his mind as the Star Trek films progressed? “Yeah. I guess I did,” said Koenig. “I must have. I mean I did six more films. When we started working on that movie, I did feel like I was exhuming a ghost, and that I was so old that I could not play the character of Chekov properly. But as it turned out, it was also very stimulating to find myself in that place again.”

Would Koenig take a role in the next Star Trek movie? “If it was something as substantial as what Leonard [Nimoy] did in this last movie, I would leap at it,” said Koenig. “If it was just standing there at the end of the movie being Chekov’s grandfather, forget it.”

The official Star Trek magazine is on sale now at newsstands and comic book stores. A different exclusive cover (seen below on the right) will only be sold at comic book stores.

Star Trek XI fans will enjoy seeing the many candid shots that have been posted recently on TrekBBS, which include photos of original series actors.

For fans of the original series, there are photos of meetings between Anton Yelchin and Walter Koenig, as well as photos of Zoe Saldana and Nichelle Nichols.

Vulcan fans can see both Zachary Quinto and Leonard Nimoy getting their Vulcan ears and a group shot of Vulcans flashing the “Live long and prosper” hand gesture.

Fans of Dr. McCoy will enjoy the six photos of Karl Urban and there are several photos of Chris Pine, for Captain Kirk fans.

The thread is located here.

As reported by Sci Fi Pulse, the Star Trek Special celebrates four decades of Star Trek in comics, from the first issue published in 1967 by Gold Key, to the more recent IDW releases.

The issue features an introduction by Walter Koenig (Chekov,) and includes interviews with both British and Americans such as Dan Abnett, Mike Collins, Ian Edginton, Mike W. Barr, Diane Duane, Gordon Purcell, David Messina and Scott Tipton. Star Trek Voyager’s EMH, Robert Picardo was also interviewed for the issue.

The issue, heavily illustrated and including formerly unpublished artwork, is on sale in shops now.

To read more, head to the article located here.

As reported by Comic Book Resources, Yelchin was nervous when Koenig visited the set during filming of Star Trek XI. “Walter came on set, actually, wearing a Mickey Mouse jacket,” said Yelchin. “We talked and thankfully it was after I shot everything because I was paranoid as all hell that he was going to come and hate it.”Fortunately for Yelchin, Koenig was OK with his portrayal of the character made famous by Koenig. “But he came on set and he really enjoyed it,” said Yelchin.” He’s pleased with the character. He said it sounded like him. He said it embodied what he did and he was very complementary. I was really touched that he even came to set and that he was interested.”

Yelchin wanted more than advice on how to play Chekov from Koenig. “Also, I just bugged him for all those little things about the cast,” said Yelchin. “He told me some interesting things. He spoke very highly of Leonard Nimoy and told me some fascinating things about William Shatner. He just basically told me how well the crew got along. But he spoke very, very highly of Leonard Nimoy.”

To read more, including Yelchin’s answers to questions about working on Terminator Salvation and other projects, head to the article located here.

As reported by the TrekZone Network, Koenig encourages fans not to prejudge Star Trek XI or get overly concerned with past Star Trek history. “I think if [fans] just put away any prejudice and not worry about canon they’ll have a good time,” he said. “You know, nothing is carved into stone. Star Trek isn’t based on historical facts. It’s just imaginary, creation. People’s imagination. It’s fictitious. So, if they take something and change it, go with it, accept it for what it’s like and have a good time!” While Star Trek XI was filming, Koenig visited the set one day and met Anton Yelchin, who is playing Chekov in the movie. “We talked a little about the role,” said Koenig. “I told him that he has to make it his own. And I don’t think it’s a good idea to try to imitate me. I don’t think that was his intention anyway.”

“[Yelchin's] a very pleasant young man,” said Koenig. “And his career is already going very well. He’s done several movies.”

Koenig doesn’t worry about Yelchin’s ability to do the Russian accent. “He is originally, his parents are from Russia,” explained Koenig. “He’s been born there but he’s been living in the States since he’s a few months old. His grandparents are very, very much Russian. So I think he got some help with the dialect from his own family.”

InAlienable, Koenig’s movie project released last year as a pay-per-download video on the Internet, will soon be available on DVD. Fans who purchase the movie will receive a free copy of Of Gods and Men. InAlienable will be released in a novel form if Koenig can find a publisher. “It is written,” he said. I am trying to sell it. I’m trying to get a publisher to buy it.”

As reported by JoBlo, Zoe Saldana (Star Trek XI’s Uhura) has joined the cast of The Losers, where she will play the sole female “loser,” the cold-blooded killer Aisha. The Losers is about a Special Forces team, who have been set up and betrayed by their handler Max, and are out for revenge and to get their names off of a CIA death list. The Losers is based on the DC/Vertigo comic series which ran from 2003-2006.

As reported by The Huddersfield Daily Examiner, Star Trek: The Next Generation’s Patrick Stewart will be the voice of God in a mystery play set to debut this summer. The English Mystery Plays will be performed in the Monk Bretton Priory in Barnsley and will run from June 29 through July 11.

Gary Graham (Star Trek: Enterprise’s Ambassador Soval, Alien Nation) was heard on the Price of Business radio show today, as reported by dBusinessNews. Graham is an advocate of the need to challenge the Obama administration and has been taking his message to media audiences. The show should be in the show archives within the next day or so for those who wish to hear what Graham had to say on the show.

Those in and near Riverside, Iowa, the self-proclaimed “Future Birthplace of James T. Kirk,” will be interested to hear that three original series stars will be appearing at this summer’s TrekFest. George Takei (Sulu,) Nichelle Nichols (Uhura,) and Walter Koenig (Chekov,) will be participating in TrekFest events. TrekFest runs from Friday, June 26 through Saturday, June 27.

To read more, head to the articles located here, here, here, here and here.