Jeri Taylor

Jeri Taylor 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.

tar Trek screenwriting

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 "" by Lee Sheldon, with whom she had worked on "Quincy."

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 which would feature heavily in "" () and the first part of the two-parter that featured Spock ().

During the last year of "The Next Generation", Jeri worked with Rick Berman and Michael Piller to develop the fourth "Star Trek" series, "". 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 Piller 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.

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.

Personal

Jeri was married to Sports broadcaster Dick Enberg. Their son Alexander Enberg has played a vulcan in both "The Next Generation" and "Voyager".

Bibliography

* Taylor, Jeri (1991). "Unification". Pocket Books. ISBN 0-671-77056-X.
* Taylor, Jeri (1996). "Mosaic". Pocket Books. ISBN 0-671-56311-4.
* Taylor, Jeri (1998). "Pathways". Pocket Books. ISBN 0-671-00346-1.

References

* [http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/series/TNG/creative/69096.html Jeri Taylor biography] - at StarTrek.com
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External links

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* [http://www.bloomingpedia.org/wiki/Jeri_Taylor Jeri Taylor's article] on [http://www.bloomingpedia.org/ Bloomingpedia, a city wiki for Bloomington, Indiana]