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Jimmy Diggs (born September 2, 1955) is an American television screenwriter best known for writing the stories for a combined seven episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager. This is more episodes than any other freelance writer in the 40+ year history of the Star Trek franchise.
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Jimmy Diggs (born 2 September 1955; age 68) is a freelance writer of several episodes of Star Trek: Voyager and one episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
Diggs is a veteran of the Vietnam War and served aboard one of the ships that helped in the evacuation of Saigon. The storyline for "Elogium", the first story he pitched to Star Trek, was based on his experiences aboard that ship which was actually followed by a school of fish.
Diggs also worked as a firefighter, an airline steward, a technician in the Navy, and a security guard and background actor on Renegade.
Early in his life he had two wishes: either to work as ground controller for NASA or start a career as science fiction writer. In 1993, NASA didn't hire new personnel, and so he began learning how to write. His first contact with show business was as a security guard on the set of Renegade. He was invited by the show's producer Nicholas Corea to pitch a story, as "... a favor from one Vietnam vet to another (so Corea later admitted to Diggs) until the producer discovered that he liked Diggs's idea." (Rip Rense: "Trekking: Jimmy Diggs". In: emmy Magazine.) When the show was canceled later, producer Corea referred him to Paramount Pictures and Rick Berman.
•House of Diggs Production – Jimmy Diggs' production company
•Jimmy Diggs at the Internet Movie Database
•Personal & Family Experiences: Jimmy Diggs's Success Stories in Writing For Star Trek Part VIII: How To Pitch (Part One) at The Trek Nation
•Illustrations for the House of Diggs Production by Court Jones
•Swords & Circuitry Studios - web site for Diggs' "Kzinti collaborators", Neal and Jana Hallford
•Jimmy Diggs at Wikipedia
This episode began as a story outline by freelance writers Jimmy Diggs and Steve J. Kay. (The Official Star Trek: Voyager Magazine issue 3, p. 50) The storyline came to Jimmy Diggs one morning while he was reminiscing about a strange experience that had occurred when he had been serving in the Navy during the Vietnam War.
Jimmy Diggs - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2089473 - is writer, producer, director, and actor. He is best known as a screen writer for "Star Trek: Voyager" an...
Feb 28, 2023 · Writer Jimmy Diggs, who contributed stories for both Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager, began pitching ideas for Kzinti-centered Star Trek episodes while still an intern on Star ...
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Jimmy Diggs. Writer: The Crypto-Historians. Jimmy Diggs is known for The Crypto-Historians, Star Trek: Voyager (1995) and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993).
Star Trek: Voyager. ) " Elogium " is the fourth episode of the second season of the American science fiction television series Star Trek: Voyager, the 20th episode overall. The episode first aired on the UPN network on September 18, 1995. [1] The story was written by freelancers Jimmy Diggs and Steve J. Kay, based on Diggs' experience while ...
