>>96348384>They couldn't afford to pay Koenig so he got left outThe story I heard, from some old Trek book that may be full of crap but it was an official publication, was that Koenig was running for some minor government position (council or mayor, something smalltime) and his opposition thought he'd lose votes if his opponent was on TV. Koenig supposedly backed out on the animated series for the sake of fairness.
I don't remember which book I read that in (or maybe it was one of those old 'Trek Trivia' tidbits inside a VHS case?), there seems to be nothing about it on his Wikipedia page so maybe it's pure rubbish.
