Michael Piller (Port Chester, May 30, 1948 - Los Angeles, November 1, 2005) was an American scenario writer and television producer. Career
Pills are both parents were writers, his father was a scenario writer and his mother a songwriter. He also wanted to be a writer but a teacher advised him. After his studies, he started working as a journalist for CBS News and some other news channels. At the end of the seventies he moved to Los Angeles and became a censor and later programming executive at the CBS television channel. During that time he was also writing and he presented a script for the television series Cagney and Lacey that was bought. He also sold a script for the detective series Simon & amp; Simon. He was accepted by the latter and worked as a producer for three years.
In 1989 he was asked by a friend to work with an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Together with Michael Wagner he wrote the episode "Evolution". After Wagner left the show after the second season, Piller became executive producer. He also made Ronald D. Moore on board after he had purchased Moore's script for the "The Bonding" episode.
In 1992 Piller left The Next Generation staff to work for a new Star Trek series, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, where he wrote the "Emissary" pilot release, which was broadcast in January 1993. He stayed there for seven years, until the end of the series. From 1994 he also joined Star Trek: Voyager, who made his debut on American television in January 1995. In 1998 he wrote the script for the movie Star Trek: Insurrection and was co-producer. Other television series he worked with include Miami Vice, The Dead Zone and Wildfire.
Michael Piller died in 2005 at the age of 57 to the effects of cancer. He was married and has two children. In his career, he won two Emmy Awards in journalism. Externe link
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