The obituary also included an essay written by Mitchell himself, titled “Connect.”

“After I die, after I creep away this lifestyles, I are seeking to turn into a tree, a Ginko, White pine, Jacaranda, Lemon, Cedar, Oak, Myrtle or Maple,” he wrote. “I are seeking to be buried below the roots, so I would even be soaked up, all my matter, my energy, my love, my laughter, my tears and I are seeking to reach up by the branches and touch the evening sky. I are seeking to twinkle with the celebs and when the earth turns, I are seeking to if truth be told feel the sun on the face of my leaves.”

Mitchell, a Toronto native, made his onscreen acting debut in the early aughts, showing in Showtime's Jump Year. He later played Eric Green on the sequence Jericho and Sam Lucas on Ghost Whisperer. In 2019, he starred on the CW's Nancy Drew and in Captain Marvel.

Meanwhile, he had begun showing on Considerable person Inch: Discovery, taking half in four roles between 2017 and 2021: Klingons Kol, Kol's dad Kol-Sha and Tenavik, and later, as he began to endure the results of ALS, Aurellio, a human persona who aged a hoverchair, or wheelchair-like instrument. Mitchell also portrayed several other roles on the sharp sequence Considerable person Inch: Decrease Decks. For the duration of his time on the franchise, he every so often made appearances at Considerable person Inch fan conventions.

Mitchell closing regarded onscreen in a recurring position on the FX sequence The Extinct Man, which stars Jeff Bridges and John Lithgow.

Mitchell became once diagnosed with ALS, a neurological illness that causes muscle weakness and paralysis, in 2018 and had aged a wheelchair since 2019.

“For five and a half years, Ken faced a sequence of awful challenges from ALS,” his obituary acknowledged. “And in truest Ken vogue, he managed to rise above everyone with grace and commitment to living a plump and joyous lifestyles in every second. He lived by the guidelines that day after day is a present and that we never stroll alone. His lifestyles is a shiny example of how plump one might maybe well well even be while you happen to are living with love, compassion, humor, inclusion and neighborhood. Ken became once an inspirational murals to the entire hearts he touched.”

Among those had been his traffic and colleagues.

“Leisure in peace, Ken. Became factual pondering of you,” Ethan Peck, who plays Spock on Considerable person Inch: Discovery, commented on the obituary, the exhaust of an emoji of the Vulcans' “Reside Long and Prosper” hand gesture.

And Jonathan Frakes, who directed several episodes in the sequence and played William Riker on Considerable person Inch: The Subsequent Generation, wrote, “One in all the perfect seemingly RIP.”