Jeri Taylor, one of the key writers and producers of 1990s-era “Star Trek,” has passed away. She was 88. Longtime “Star Trek” production designers Mike and Denise Okuda announced her passing on social media.
Taylor first rose to fame writing scripts for various television series including “The Incredible Hulk,” “Magnum P.I.,” “In the Heat of the Night,” “Quincy, M.E.” and “Jake and the Fatman”.
Taylor then joined the staff of “Star Trek: The Next Generation” in its fourth season as a supervising producer before becoming co-executive producer and then showrunner for the final season.
When that show ended, she helped create and then transfer over to “Star Trek: Voyager” as executive producer, becoming showrunner for its third and fourth seasons and then stepping back to creative consultant in its last three seasons before retiring from writing altogether.
She has penned multiple episodes of the franchise. On “The Next Generation” she penned one of the show’s greatest episodes, “The Drumhead,” which dealt with an overzealous Starfleet admiral conducting a witch-hunt aboard the Enterprise.
She also penned the first part of the famed “Unification” two-parter which saw Spock guest star on the series, and “The Wounded” which created the Cardassian race.
Other notable episodes included the horror tale “Night Terrors” which has some of the creepiest moments in all of Trek, the queer-themed “The Outcast,” the rape-themed “Violations,” and Wil Wheaton’s final regular episode “Final Mission”. She also wrote “Time’s Arrow Part II,” “Descent Part I,” “Aquiel,” “Suddenly Human,” “Silicon Avatar” and the story for the infamous “Sub Rosa”.
She also contributed to writing some second season episodes of “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine” – namely “The Homecoming” and the two-parter “The Maquis. On “Star Trek: Voyager” she penned episodes like “Caretaker,” “Eye of the Needle,” “The 37’s,” “Elogium,” “Persistence of Vision,” “Alliances,” “Investigations,” “Resolutions,” “Coda,” “Real Life,” “Hunters,” and “One”.
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