Who was the creator of the TV series Star Trek?
"Star Trek (film series) The ""Star Trek"" film series is the cinematic branch of the ""Star Trek"" media franchise, which began in 1966 as a weekly on NBC, running for three seasons until it was canceled in 1969 because of poor ratings. Reruns of the series proved to be wildly successful in syndication during the 1970s, which persuaded the series' then-owner, Paramount Pictures, to expand the franchise. Paramount originally began work on a ""Star Trek"" feature film in 1975 after lobbying by the creator of the franchise, Gene Roddenberry. The studio scrapped the project two years later in favor of"
"Star Trek Star Trek is an American space opera media franchise based on the science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry. The first television series, simply called ""Star Trek"" and now referred to as """""""", debuted in 1966 and aired for three seasons on the television network NBC. It followed the interstellar adventures of Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner) and his crew aboard the starship USS ""Enterprise"", a space exploration vessel, built by the United Federation of Planets in the twenty-third century. The ""Star Trek"" canon of the franchise includes ""The Original Series"", an animated series, five spin-off"
"at Piller Squared, said that Piller's greatest gift was his ability to nurture new writers and help them develop their talent. He felt that this would be Piller's enduring legacy. Michael Piller Michael Piller (May 30, 1948 – November 1, 2005) was an American television scriptwriter and producer, who was best known for his contributions to the ""Star Trek"" franchise. Piller was born to a Jewish family in Port Chester, New York. With parents who were both involved in writing; Gene Piller, his father was a Hollywood screenwriter and his mother, Ruth Roberts was a songwriter. He planned to be"
"Mike Sussman (TV series writer/producer) Mike Sussman (born June 22, 1967) is an American television writer and producer. He is best known as a writer and producer of the ""Star Trek"" franchise and as the Co-Creator and Executive Producer of the TNT one-hour drama ""Perception"", starring Emmy Award-winner Eric McCormack as a crime-solving neurologist. "" Sussman was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, but as a child he moved with his family first to New Jersey and finally to Sarasota, Florida. He was a fan of ""Star Trek"" from an early age, and was involved in letter writing campaigns to local television"
"2017, it was announced that Apple had given a straight-to-series order for a space drama entitled For All Mankind created and written by Moore. Emmy Awards Hugo Awards Peabody Awards Streamy Awards Ronald D. Moore Ronald Dowl Moore (born July 5, 1964) is an American screenwriter and television producer. He is best known for his work on ""Star Trek""; on the re-imagined ""Battlestar Galactica"" television series, for which he won a Peabody Award; and on ""Outlander"", based on the novels of Diana Gabaldon. Moore was raised in Chowchilla, California. He describes himself as a 'recovering Catholic' and is agnostic. Moore"
"Michael Piller Michael Piller (May 30, 1948 – November 1, 2005) was an American television scriptwriter and producer, who was best known for his contributions to the ""Star Trek"" franchise. Piller was born to a Jewish family in Port Chester, New York. With parents who were both involved in writing; Gene Piller, his father was a Hollywood screenwriter and his mother, Ruth Roberts was a songwriter. He planned to be a scriptwriter from an early age, but a college lecturer discouraged him, and Piller started out in television working as an Emmy Award-winning journalist for CBS News in New York,"
"Rick Berman Richard Keith ""Rick"" Berman (born December 25, 1945) is an American television producer. He is best known for his work as the executive producer of several of the ""Star Trek"" series: """", """", """" and """", as well as several of the ""Star Trek"" theatrical productions, and for ultimately succeeding Gene Roddenberry as head of the ""Star Trek"" franchise until the cancellation of ""Star Trek: Enterprise"" in 2005. Berman was born to a Jewish family and raised in New York City. He attended college at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, receiving a degree in English and film production in"
"re-worked, resulting in """" and ""Andromeda"". Gene Roddenberry filmography Eugene Wesley ""Gene"" Roddenberry (August 19, 1921 – October 24, 1991) was an American screenwriter and producer of several television series, best known for his work in creating the ""Star Trek"" franchise. He began a writing career while he was a Sergeant in the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) and his first work to be bought by a network was ""The Secret Defense of 117"", although it took four years to be broadcast. During that time, he wrote four episodes of the police procedural ""Highway Patrol"" under the pseudonym ""Robert Wesley"","
"Gene Roddenberry filmography Eugene Wesley ""Gene"" Roddenberry (August 19, 1921 – October 24, 1991) was an American screenwriter and producer of several television series, best known for his work in creating the ""Star Trek"" franchise. He began a writing career while he was a Sergeant in the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) and his first work to be bought by a network was ""The Secret Defense of 117"", although it took four years to be broadcast. During that time, he wrote four episodes of the police procedural ""Highway Patrol"" under the pseudonym ""Robert Wesley"", as the LAPD required employees to"
"He has also stated an interest in writing a memoir of his experiences at ""Star Trek"". Rick Berman Richard Keith ""Rick"" Berman (born December 25, 1945) is an American television producer. He is best known for his work as the executive producer of several of the ""Star Trek"" series: """", """", """" and """", as well as several of the ""Star Trek"" theatrical productions, and for ultimately succeeding Gene Roddenberry as head of the ""Star Trek"" franchise until the cancellation of ""Star Trek: Enterprise"" in 2005. Berman was born to a Jewish family and raised in New York City. He"
"Ronald D. Moore Ronald Dowl Moore (born July 5, 1964) is an American screenwriter and television producer. He is best known for his work on ""Star Trek""; on the re-imagined ""Battlestar Galactica"" television series, for which he won a Peabody Award; and on ""Outlander"", based on the novels of Diana Gabaldon. Moore was raised in Chowchilla, California. He describes himself as a 'recovering Catholic' and is agnostic. Moore dabbled in writing and drama in high school. He went on to study government (political science) at Cornell University, where he was Literary Secretary of The Kappa Alpha Society, originally on a"
"John D. F. Black John Donald Francis Black (December 30, 1932 – November 29, 2018) was a screenwriter, TV producer, and TV director. He is best known for his work on the TV series """" in 1966, and its sequel series, """" during the 1980s. Black was the associate producer for ten episodes of ""Star Trek"" made during the program's first season, all of which were broadcast from September 8, 1966, through December 15, 1966. (This information can be found in www.Imdb.com.) Black also wrote the teleplay for and was the associate producer of one of the outstanding early episodes"
"and Sam Raimi's ""Legend of the Seeker"". He since produced ""Perception"" for TNT alongside Biller. Later, Sussman went on to write and produce the SyFy Channel series, ""12 Monkeys""; and ""The Last Ship"" from Executive Producer Michael Bay and TNT Originals. Mike Sussman (TV series writer/producer) Mike Sussman (born June 22, 1967) is an American television writer and producer. He is best known as a writer and producer of the ""Star Trek"" franchise and as the Co-Creator and Executive Producer of the TNT one-hour drama ""Perception"", starring Emmy Award-winner Eric McCormack as a crime-solving neurologist. "" Sussman was born in"
"""Star Trek"" film. He remains credited as a producer on the film, and was replaced by Doug Jung and cast member Simon Pegg as the script writers after Orci's initial script was dropped. Orci was replaced as director by Justin Lin, who had previously directed films in ""The Fast and the Furious"" franchise. Orci created ""Matador"" with the idea that the main character would be a ""soccer player by day who is a spy by night"", and called him a ""Latin James Bond"". The series was broadcast on the El Rey Network created by Robert Rodriguez. It was renewed for"
"liberate themselves and form a resistance movement, as seen in several other ""DS9"" episodes ("""", """", """", ""The Emperor's New Cloak""). The series was created by Rick Berman and Michael Piller at the request of Brandon Tartikoff, and was produced by Paramount Television. As overall head of ""Star Trek"" production, Berman served as executive producer for the series's entire run. Piller initially served as second executive producer and showrunner, but left the series in 1995 to manage """". Writer Ira Steven Behr was promoted by Berman to replace Piller as showrunner and held that role for the remainder of the"
"Rod Roddenberry Eugene Wesley ""Rod"" Roddenberry Jr. (born February 5, 1974) is an American television producer and the chief executive officer of Roddenberry Entertainment. Eugene, the son of ""Star Trek"" creator Gene Roddenberry and Majel Barrett, is an executive producer on """", which began airing on CBS All Access in September 2017. Roddenberry was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of actress Majel Barrett and writer and producer Gene Roddenberry, who is best known for creating the American science fiction series ""Star Trek"". Roddenberry went to the John Thomas Dye School in Bel Air and Harvard-Westlake School in North"
"photography of the Hollywood Sign. In 2005, he opened another exhibition entitled ""Slice of Life"" which featured some of Livingston's experimental photography. David Livingston David Livingston is an American television producer and director. He is mostly known for his involvement in the writing and production of the various modern ""Star Trek"" franchises. Livingston also has production credits on several episodes of ""Seven Days"" and ""Threshold"" as well as a 2002 television remake of ""Carrie"". Livingston began his work with ""Star Trek"" as a unit production manager on ""Next Generation"" in 1988 before moving up the ranks to become a supervising"
"Winrich Kolbe Winrich ""Rick"" Ernst Rudolf Kolbe (9 August 1940 – September 2012) was a German-born American television director and television producer best known for directing 48 episodes of ""Star Trek"" across four television series. These included the Hugo Award-winning """". He also directed the series premiere """", """", and was involved in the casting of the series. Winrich Kolbe was born in Amsterdam during its occupation in World War II. He came to the United States to study architecture. Kolbe was drafted during the Vietnam War. He served as an artillery spotter in the army. Following his service in"
"Brannon Braga Brannon Braga (; born August 14, 1965) is an American television producer, director and screenwriter. He served as an executive producer on the Fox primetime series, """", a re-launch of the 1980 miniseries hosted by Carl Sagan for which Braga won a Peabody Award, Critics Choice Award, and Producers Guild Award. In addition, Braga has been nominated for three Emmy Awards. Braga also served as writer, executive producer, and co-creator of the drama series ""Salem"", WGN America's first original series. Best known for his work in the ""Star Trek"" franchise, Braga was a key creative force behind three"
"Jimmy Diggs Jimmy Diggs (born September 2, 1955) is an American television screenwriter best known for writing the stories for a combined seven episodes of """" and """". This is more episodes than any other freelance writer in the 40+ year history of the ""Star Trek"" franchise. A Vietnam veteran, Diggs was a security guard for a Hollywood studio when ""Renegade"" producer Nicholas Corea, who knew Diggs also wrote science fiction, asked him for a story pitch. The studio bought the story and launched his career in television writing. Diggs operates his own production company, House of Diggs Productions. Diggs"
"by USA Networks, then a joint venture between Paramount Pictures and Universal Studios. The channel was seen as a natural fit with classic films and television series that both studios had in their vaults, including Universal's ""Dracula"", ""Frankenstein"", and the Rod Serling TV series ""Night Gallery"", along with Paramount's """". ""Star Trek""s creator Gene Roddenberry and author Isaac Asimov were among those on the initial advisory board, but both had died by the time the channel finally launched on September 24, 1992. Rubenstein recalled: ""The first thing that was on the screen was 'Dedicated to the memories of Isaac Asimov"
"beam allows the land-bound creature to transform back into its jellyfish-like form, and it flies into orbit to join its fellow being. As the crew watches the reunion of the alien creatures, Q reluctantly tells Picard that they have succeeded in their test, but hints that they will meet again. The new ""Star Trek"" series was announced on October 10, 1986 by the head of Paramount Television Group, Mel Harris. He announced that the creator of ""Star Trek"", Gene Roddenberry, was to be executive producer and lead the creation of the new series. It was the second attempt at creating"
"André Bormanis Andre Bormanis is an American television producer, screenwriter, and author of the book ""Star Trek: Science Logs"". Bormanis is most notable for his involvement in the long-running ""Star Trek"" franchise, and was the science consultant on """", """", """" and """". He also wrote a number of episodes of the ""Star Trek: Voyager"" series and became a writer and producer on the ""Enterprise"" series, as well as acting as science/technical advisor on two of the ""Next Generation"" films. He was also a writer and producer of the CBS science fiction drama ""Threshold""; the CBS drama series ""Eleventh Hour"";"
"Star Trek: Voyager Star Trek: Voyager is an American science fiction television series created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller, and Jeri Taylor. It originally aired between January 16, 1995 and May 23, 2001 on UPN, lasting for 172 episodes over seven seasons. The fifth series in the ""Star Trek"" franchise, it served as the fourth sequel to """". Set in the 24th century, when Earth is part of a United Federation of Planets, it follows the adventures of the Starfleet vessel USS ""Voyager"", as it attempts to return home after being stranded in the Delta Quadrant on the far side"
"of ""Star Trek"". Paramount turned down several proposals in the mid-2000s to restart the franchise. These included pitches from film director Bryan Singer, ""Babylon 5"" creator J. Michael Straczynski, and ""Trek"" actors Jonathan Frakes and William Shatner. The studio also turned down an animated web series. Instead, Paramount hired a new creative team to reinvigorate the franchise in 2007. Writers Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman and ""Lost"" producer, J. J. Abrams, had the freedom to reinvent the feel of ""Trek"". The team created the franchise's eleventh film, entitled simply ""Star Trek"", releasing it in May 2009. The film featured a"
"Jeri Taylor Jeri Taylor (born June 30, 1938) is a television scriptwriter and producer, who wrote many episodes of the ""Star Trek"" series. She is an alumna of Indiana University, where she was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta. She also received her M.A. in English from California State University, Northridge in 1966. Having previously written scripts for television series like ""Little House on the Prairie"" and ""The Incredible Hulk"" and, after serving as a producer and director on ""Quincy, M.E."" and ""Jake and the Fatman"", Taylor was recommended to the producers of """" by Lee Sheldon, with whom she"
"dated Mulgrew for about three years. He died in September 2012 after several years of failing health. Following his death, a Memorial Award in his name was awarded in 2013 as part of the Savannah College of Art and Design's film and television department's SCADemy Awards. Winrich Kolbe Winrich ""Rick"" Ernst Rudolf Kolbe (9 August 1940 – September 2012) was a German-born American television director and television producer best known for directing 48 episodes of ""Star Trek"" across four television series. These included the Hugo Award-winning """". He also directed the series premiere """", """", and was involved in the"
"Matt Jefferies Walter Matthew ""Matt"" Jefferies (August 12, 1921July 21, 2003) was an American aviation and mechanical artist, set designer, and writer. He is best known for his work on the ""Star Trek"" television series, where he designed many of the sets and props, including the original Starship ""Enterprise"". Jefferies was born in Lebanon, Pennsylvania.His father was chief engineer at a power plant in Virginia. He had a younger brother named John who worked with him as his chief draftsman. He served in Europe in World War II, was inside of B-17, B-24, B-25 bombers and had four years as"
"William Shatner William Shatner, (born March 22, 1931) is a Canadian actor, author, producer, director and singer. In his seven decades of television, Shatner became a cultural icon for his portrayal of James T. Kirk, captain of the USS ""Enterprise"", in the ""Star Trek"" franchise. He has written a series of books chronicling his experiences playing Captain Kirk and being a part of ""Star Trek"", and has co-written several novels set in the ""Star Trek"" universe. He has also written a series of science fiction novels called ""TekWar"" that were adapted for television. Shatner also played the eponymous veteran police"
"Star Trek: Enterprise Star Trek: Enterprise, titled simply Enterprise for its first two seasons, is an American science fiction television series created by Rick Berman and Brannon Braga. It originally aired from September 26, 2001 to May 13, 2005 on UPN, spanning . The sixth series in the ""Star Trek"" franchise, it served as a prequel to """". Set in the 22nd century a hundred years before the events of ""The Original Series"", and just prior to the formation of the United Federation of Planets, the series follows the adventures of the ""Enterprise"", Earth's first starship capable of traveling at"
"which a full 105-minute segment was devoted. (For details on each episode's original airdate, see .) Leonard Nimoy hosted a second run from December 28, 1998 to March 24, 1999, but not all the episodes were broadcast because the show was abruptly cancelled before completion. In September 2006, CBS Paramount Domestic Television (now known as CBS Television Distribution, the current rights holders for the ""Star Trek"" television franchises) began syndication of an enhanced version of ""Star Trek: The Original Series"" in high definition with new CGI visual effects. Under the direction of ""Star Trek"" producer David Rossi, who consulted with"
"Robert H. Justman Robert Harris ""Bob"" Justman (July 13, 1926 – May 28, 2008) was an American television producer, director, and production manager. He worked on many American TV series including ""Lassie"", ""The Life of Riley"", ""Adventures of Superman"", ""The Outer Limits"", ""Star Trek"", """", and ""Then Came Bronson"". Born to a Jewish family in New York City, Justman was one of the pioneers behind ""Star Trek"", working both as an associate and supervising producer on """" and """". He was also the assistant director of the first two ""Star Trek"" episodes: ""The Cage"" and ""Where No Man Has Gone"
"David Livingston David Livingston is an American television producer and director. He is mostly known for his involvement in the writing and production of the various modern ""Star Trek"" franchises. Livingston also has production credits on several episodes of ""Seven Days"" and ""Threshold"" as well as a 2002 television remake of ""Carrie"". Livingston began his work with ""Star Trek"" as a unit production manager on ""Next Generation"" in 1988 before moving up the ranks to become a supervising producer in 1992 for ""Next Generation"" and the subsequent ""Trek"" series. He served as a supervising producer on """", """" and """"."