Death of Jerry Taylor, Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek Voyager showrunner

Producer, showrunner and screenwriter Jerry Taylor died of natural causes on October 24 at the age of 86. He brought a lot to the Star Trek universe with his work on The Next Generation and Voyager. His son Andrew Enberg told him about it The Hollywood Reporter :

My mom succeeded in a male-dominated industry, but she did it without being super aggressive. He did it with compassion and kindness. She was a mother hen to everyone.

Jerry Taylor began writing for several series, including Little House on the Prairie, and then worked on the medical and police show Quincy for 15 episodes from 1980 to 1983. Same genre with Magnum or The Law is the law before the Star Trek adventure finally begins.

Star Trek Adventure

Jerry Taylor joined Star Trek: The Next Generation in 1990 when the series was in its fourth season, and along with Brannon Braga, seven episodes were nominated for a total of 8 Emmys. The first episode, The Best of Both, which resolved the cliffhanger at the end of season 3, won Best Sound Editing and Best Sound Mixing for a series.

During this rich period as showrunner, Taylor also wrote 13 episodes and produced 101 between 1990 and 1994, when the series ended after 7 seasons. If the channel is completely successful in stopping the payments, it is the capitalization of the films of the actors of the series. There would be Star Trek Generations (1994), Star Trek: First Contact (1996), Star Trek: Insurrection (1998) and Star Trek: Nemesis (2002), projects in which he was not involved because he was looking after other Starfleet. the crew.

The themes of the end of Star Trek: The Next Generation continue in two new series: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager. Jerry Taylor stars only in Voyager, which he co-created with Rick Berman and Michael Peeler. Running from 1995 to 2001, the series tells the story of the crew of the USS Voyager, which is lost on the edge of the galaxy and that its captain Kathryn Janewat (Kate Mulgrew) tries to bring back to Earth.

Taylor will serve as creative consultant for the final three seasons and will write three novels set in the Star Trek universe. She was the first showrunner on the series and the first to put a woman at the helm of a Starfleet ship.