13 Facts About Rick Berman

Richard Keith Berman was born on December 25,1945 and is an American television producer and screenwriter.

Rick Berman is best known for his work as the executive producer of several of the Star Trek television series: Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: Enterprise, as well as several of the Star Trek films, and for ultimately succeeding Gene Roddenberry as head of the Star Trek franchise until the cancellation of Star Trek: Enterprise in 2005.

Rick Berman was born to a Jewish family and raised in New York City.

Rick Berman first considered acting as a career, but decided not to pursue it because of the high degree of difficulty in gaining success.

Rick Berman joined Paramount in 1984 as the director of current programming, overseeing series such as Cheers and Family Ties.

Rick Berman was executive director of dramatic programming, overseeing series such as the miniseries Space and the American Broadcasting Company series MacGyver.

Rick Berman was promoted in 1986 to vice-president of long-form and special projects at Paramount Network Television.

Rick Berman was promoted to executive producer in the series' third season, following Hurley's departure.

Rick Berman received both producer and story credit on all four films.

Rick Berman has responded by saying that he took full responsibility for the lack of such characters and that he had been working with other producers on including gay characters, telling Kate Mulgrew that such a character would be included "in due time", though no such characters would be included during Rick Berman's time as producer.

In 2005, Rick Berman was involved in developing an eleventh Star Trek movie based on a script written by Erik Jendresen.

However, when Gail Rick Berman took over as president of Paramount Pictures, Jendresen's script was shelved.

In mid-2006, Rick Berman stated he would no longer be involved in producing Star Trek.