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Jeri Taylor (born June 30, 1946) is a television scriptwriter and producer who is known for her contributions to the Star Trek series. She is an alumna of Indiana University, where she was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta. June 30 is the 181st day of the year (182nd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 184 days remaining. ... 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... Screenwriters, scenarists or script writers, are authors who write the screenplays from which movies and television programs are made. ... A Television producer oversees the making of television penis programs. ... Star Trek is an American science-fiction franchise spanning six television series, ten feature films, hundreds of novels, computer and video games, and other fan stories. ... An alumn (with a silent n), alum, alumnus, or alumna is a former student of a college, university, or school. ... Indiana University is the principal campus of the Indiana University system. ...

Having previously written scripts for television series like Little House on the Prairie and The Incredible Hulk, and served as a producer and director on Quincy, M.E. and Jake and the Fatman, Jeri was recommended to the producers of Star Trek: The Next Generation by Lee Sheldon, who she had worked with on Quincy. Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Little House on the Prairie Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Little House on the Prairie Little House on the Prairie (1935) is a childrens book by Laura Ingalls Wilder. ... Lou Ferrigno in the 1978 episode Married The Incredible Hulk was an American television series loosely based on the comic book character of the same name. ... Quincy, M.E. (or simply Quincy) is the name of a United States television series that aired from October 3, 1976, to May 11, 1983, on NBC (and can be seen in the UK on ITV3). ... Jake and the Fatman was a television crime drama starring William Conrad and Joe Penny. ... The title as it appeared in most episodes opening credits. ... Stagger Lee, also known as Stagolee, Stack OLee, Stack-a-Lee and by several other spelling variants, was an American murderer whose tawdry crime was immortalized in a blues folksong. ...

Jeri joined The Next Generation staff at the beginning of the fourth season as a supervising producer, co-writing the second episode to go into production Suddenly Human (which actually aired fourth). After two years, Jeri became co-executive producer with Rick Berman and Michael Piller and served as an executive producer for the final seventh season of The Next Generation. During this time she received credit on a number of episodes including Wil Wheaton's final episode as a regular character (Final Mission), the episode that introduced the Cardassian race that would feature heavily in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (The Wounded) and the first part of the two-parter that featured Spock (Unification). Suddenly Human is the title of a Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, from the fourth season. ... Rick Berman Richard Keith Rick Berman (born December 25, 1945 in New York, New York, USA) is an American television producer. ... Michael Piller (born May 30, 1948) is an American television and cinema screenwriter. ... Wil Wheaton (2001) Richard William Wil Wheaton III (born July 29, 1972 in Burbank, California) is a writer, actor, and geek icon. ... Final Mission is an episode of the science fiction television series Star Trek: The Next Generation, and the last one featuring Wesley Crusher as a weekly character. ... Cardassians, a spacefaring race in the fictional Star Trek universe, and the Cardassian Union were introduced in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode The Wounded. Cardassians were one of the main parts of the storyline in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. ... Space station Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (ST:DS9 or STDS9 or DS9 for short) is a science fiction television series produced by Paramount and set in the Star Trek universe. ... The Wounded is the twelfth episode of the fourth season of Star Trek: The Next Generation. ... Spock, commonly called Mr. ... Unification is the title of a two-part Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, from the fifth season. ...

During the last year of The Next Generation, Jeri worked with Rick Berman and Michael Piller to develop the fourth Star Trek series, Star Trek: Voyager. When The Next Generation production ended, Jeri transferred over to the Voyager production staff and served as executive producer with Rick Berman during the first four years. At the beginning of the second season, when Michael moved to a reduced creative consultant role, Jeri became head of the writing staff and stayed in that role until the end of the fourth season, when she retired and handed over control of the writing staff to Brannon Braga. The starship Voyager (NCC-74656), an Intrepid-class starship. ... Brannon Braga at a 2006 lecture Brannon Braga (born August 14, 1965 in Bozeman, Montana) is an American television producer and screenwriter who is mostly known for his significant contributions to the Star Trek series since 1990. ...

During her time on The Next Generation and Voyager, Jeri wrote three Star Trek novels for Pocket Books. A novelisation of Unification that she wrote at the same time she was scripting the first part and two Voyager novels that expanded on the background of the characters she had helped create for the series. These two Voyager novels, Mosaic and Pathways, are unique among Star Trek novels, in that they are considered canonical. (Unlike that of other universes such as Star Wars, Star Trek canon is generally limited to what is presented on-screen in films and television episodes.) Pocket Books is the name of a subdivision of Simon & Schuster publishers. ... The cover of the 2004 DVD widescreen release of the revamped original Star Wars Trilogy. ...

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