David Weddle

David Weddle is an American television producer and writer, best known for episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1996–1999), The Twilight Zone (2002–2003), Battlestar Galactica (2004–2009), and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2009-2011) with writing partner Bradley Thompson. They also wrote for the short-lived series Ghost Stories (1997) and The Fearing Mind (2000). Weddle and Thompson are currently writing and producing for the TNT series Falling Skies.

Biography

Weddle's father fought in World War II and saw action during the Guadalcanal campaign and the Battle of Peleliu.

Weddle graduated from the USC School of Cinema, as did writing partner Bradley Thompson, whom he first met in an acting class.

A fan of Sam Peckinpah, Weddle met the director on several occasions. Weddle and his parents knew Fern Lea Peter, Peckinpah's sister, and her family. He was able to watch Peckinpah direct what would be his last film, The Osterman Weekend.

After Peckinpah's death in 1984, Weddle used Peckinpah's production files and correspondence that had been given to the library of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to write a biography of the director. This biography, If They Move . . . Kill 'Em!: The Life and Times of Sam Peckinpah was released in 1994.

It was the biography that brought Weddle to Deep Space Nine and later to Battlestar Galactica. Ira Steven Behr, a fan of Peckinpah, invited Weddle to Paramount Pictures. This enabled Weddle and Thompson to pitch stories to the show. The two joined the writing staff for DS9's final seasons. They also met and worked with producer Ronald D. Moore on the show.

Weddle and Thompson wrote twelve episodes of Deep Space Nine. Weddle can be seen in the background of the scene set at Vic Fontaine's Lounge in the final episode, "What You Leave Behind". He later wrote a DS9 novel set after the series with Jeffrey Lang. Entitled "Abyss", it focused on Section 31, the Federation's secretive intelligence service.

Weddle considers "Inquisition" to be the best Star Trek episode he and Bradley Thompson wrote, for showing "that the Federation, as perfect as it seemed, had to resort to unsavory tactics and work black bag operations to keep their world safe and pristine".

Weddle and Thompson were invited by Ron Moore to work on the reimagined Battlestar Galactica. They served as story editors on the first season of the show and became co-producers in the second season. Their responsibilities as producers increased during the third season, and they achieved supervising producer status for the fourth season.

In 2008, Weddle and Thompson joined the staff of CSI: Las Vegas mid-way through Season 9 as writers and supervising producers.^[1] As of Season 10, they became co-executive producers. An episode they wrote for the 11th season, "Fracked," won the Environmental Media Association's 21st Annual Environmental Media Award for Television Episodic Drama.^[2]

Weddle has dined and chatted at length with Jerry Lewis on his private yacht in Southern California. He appreciates Jerry Lewis as an "auteur" and wrote an article about the director and actor that appeared in the Los Angeles Times Sunday magazine section suggesting that Lewis be awarded an honorary Academy Award. Lewis won this award on February 22, 2009, though for his humanitarian achievements rather than his work in the cinema.

In 2011, Weddle and Thompson joined the second season of the Steven Spielberg alien invasion drama Falling Skies as writers and producers.

Credits

Deep Space Nine

• "Rules of Engagement"
• "The Assignment"
• "Business as Usual"
• "Sons and Daughters"
• "One Little Ship"
• "Inquisition"
• "The Reckoning"
• "Time's Orphan"
• "Treachery, Faith, and the Great River"
• "Prodigal Daughter"
• "'Til Death Do Us Part"
• "Extreme Measures"

Ghost Stories

• "Back Ward"
• "Beware the Muse"

The Fearing Mind

• "Upgrades"
• "Call of the Wild"
• "Maximum Security" (originally unaired)
• "On the Road" (originally unaired)

The Twilight Zone

• "Harsh Mistress"
• "Fair Warning"
• "Homecoming"

Battlestar Galactica

• "Act of Contrition"
• "The Hand of God"
• "Scattered"
• "Valley of Darkness"
• "Flight of the Phoenix"
• "Scar"
• "Downloaded"
• "Exodus"
• "Rapture"
• "Maelstrom"
• "He That Believeth in Me"
• "Revelations"
• "Sometimes a Great Notion"
• "Someone to Watch Over Me"

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

• "The Grave Shift"
• "Kill Me If You Can"
• "A Space Oddity"
• "Family Affair"
• "The Lost Girls"
• "Irradiator"
• "Shock Waves"
• "Fracked"
• "Targets of Obsession"

Video games

• Aliens: Colonial Marines

Nonfiction

• If They Move... Kill 'Em!": The Life and Times of Sam Peckinpah, a biography of noted film director Sam Peckinpah

External links

• David Weddle at the Internet Movie Database
• David Weddle at Memory Alpha (a Star Trek wiki)
• David Weddle interview
• Interview with David Weddle
• CSI Note

References

1. ^ "Writing Duo Finds 'CSI' After 'Battlestar'". SyFy Portal. 2008-07-04. Archived from the original on 2008-07-15. http://web.archive.org/web/20080715014244/http://www.syfyportal.com/news425187.html. Retrieved 2008-07-16. 
2. ^ "21st Annual Environmental Media Awards". Environmental Media Association. 2011-10-15. http://www.ema-online.org/21stAnnualAwards.php. Retrieved 2011-10-29. 

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