Star Trek has had plenty of outstanding creative voices over its 58-year run and throughout its numerous TV reveals. Earlier this week, a type of voices—Jeri Taylor, an govt producer for Star Trek: The Subsequent Technology and a co-creator of its eventual successor Star Trek: Voyager—handed away at 86 years previous.
Born June 30, 1938, Taylor acquired her begin in TV writing scripts for Little Home on the Prairie and The Unbelievable Hulk, and would later produce and direct episodes of Quincy, M.E. and Jake and the Fatman. Lee Sheldon, who she’d labored with on the previous, really helpful her to the Subsequent Technology producers, and he or she joined the present as a supervising producer on season 4. Throughout her time on the present, she was promoted to govt producer, turned showrunner for the ultimate season and penned a number of episodes, together with Wesley Crusher’s (Wil Wheaton) remaining look as a sequence common, and “The Wounded,” the primary Star Trek episode to characteristic the Cardassians, who would change into a serious faction in ’90s Star Trek in Deep House 9.
Taylor later labored along with her fellow Subsequent Technology co-EPs Rick Berman and Michael Piller to develop Star Trek: Voyager, and helped convey Subsequent Technology manufacturing employees over to the brand new present. Along with being an govt producer for the primary 4 seasons, she turned showrunner for seasons three and 4 earlier than retiring, although nonetheless acted as a marketing consultant for her successor Brannon Braga. However earlier than that time, she additionally wrote a trio of Trek novels: a novelization of her Subsequent Technology episode “Unification,” the 1996 Voyager prequel Mosaic, and 1998’s Pathways, and the occasions of each have been referenced in Nickelodeon’s Star Trek: Prodigy.
A number of Star Trek have eulogized Taylor on social media. Braga known as her “an important author and showrunner and to me, a cherished mentor. I might not have a profession with out Jeri’s intricate steering. Her reminiscence will stay on in some ways, however maybe most of all within the character of Captain Janeway, who mirrored the very best dimensions of Jeri herself.” Prodigy EP/co-head author Aaron J. Waltke attributed his profession to the scripts she’d donated to Indiana College Lilly Library, saying “I discovered to jot down finding out her. I wouldn’t be right here with out her. Thanks, Jeri. For all the pieces.”
David Zappone, a movie producer behind a number of Star Trek documentaries, stated Taylor shall be a “main half” of an upcoming documentary centered on Voyager, and that her accomplishments and contributions to the franchise”won’t ever be forgotten.”
[via TrekCore]
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