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Voyager could never have left Spacedock were it not for the unparalleled efforts of:
The Creators of "Star Trek: Voyager"
Rick Berman || Michael Piller || Jeri Taylor
Rick Berman
As creator/executive producer of Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, producer and co-story writer of the feature film "Star Trek: Generations," and former executive producer of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Rick Berman embraces the challenges the newest addition to the Star Trek legacy brings, "They're going into an uncharted area of space with new rules and new species and new empires, and as writers and producers, it's very exciting stuff for us."
Berman served as executive producer on The Next Generation since its inception in 1987. Under his guidance, Star Trek: The Next Generation became the first syndicated series in this decade to be nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama. With 55 Emmy nominations, the series remains among the most-nominated dramatic series on television. With Berman and executive producer/creator Michael Piller at the helm of the series, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine has consistently ranked among the top ten hour-long series on television and soared to the #1 position among new hour-long series on television among men, 18-49.
Berman joined the Paramount family in 1984 as director of current programming, overseeing Cheers, Family Ties, and Webster. Within a year, he was named executive director of dramatic programming, overseeing the epic miniseries Space, Wallenberg: A Hero's Story, and ABC's top-rated MacGyver. He was promoted in May 1986 to vice president, longform and special projects, for Paramount Network Television, overseeing the development of telefilms, miniseries and specials.
Prior to joining Paramount, he was director of dramatic development for Warner Bros. Television. Berman was an independent producer on numerous projects from 1982-1984, including What On Earth, an informational series for HBO and The Primal Mind, a one-hour award-winning special for PBS. From 1977-1982, he was senior producer of The Big Blue Marble, for which he won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Series.
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Michael Piller
Michael Piller is creator/executive producer of Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and since 1989, served as executive producer of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
With Piller and executive producer Rick Berman at the helm of the series, Star Trek: The Next Generation became the first syndicated series in this decade to receive an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Drama. Also under the supervision of Piller and executive producer/creator Rick Berman, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine set ratings history when it became the highest-rated series premiere in syndication history.
An Emmy Award-winning journalist, Piller began his broadcasting career with CBS News in New York. He subsequently served as managing editor of the WBTV-TV News in Charlotte, North Carolina, and senior news producer at WBBM-TV, the CBS affiliate in Chicago.
A graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, his first position in entertainment television was as a censor in the CBS docudrama unit. Piller then spent two years as a programming executive before leaving CBS to write full-time.
Piller's credits as a writer-producer include the series Simon & Simon, Cagney & Lacey, Miami Vice, Probe, and Hard Time on Planet Earth. In addition, he co-created and executive-produced the syndicated series Group One Medical.
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Jeri Taylor
Jeri Taylor's diverse talent and skills as a writer, director and producer, have led her to her post as creator/executive producer of Star Trek: Voyager. Taylor also served as an executive producer of Star Trek: The Next Generation for the 1993-94 season. Prior to that, and since 1992, she served as co-executive producer of the series.
An Emmy Award-nominated writer, Taylor joined Star Trek: The Next Generation in 1990 as supervising producer and held that position through the fifth season.
Taylor's credits as a producer include the series Quincy, M.E., for which she also directed episodes, Blue Thunder, Magnum, P. I., In the Heat of the Night, and Jake and the Fatman. In addition, she co-wrote and produced the CBS prime-time movie, A Place to Call Home starring Linda Lavin.
She has written two ABC afterschool specials, But It Wasn't My Fault, and Please Don't Hit Me, Mom, for which she earned Writer's Guild and Emmy Award nomininations. Taylor has also written for the television series Little House on the Prairie, The Incredible Hulk, and Cliffhangers.
Taylor received her Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Indiana University, and her Masters degree in English from California State University at Northridge.
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