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Morgan Adley Gendel (born 1952) is an American screenwriter and television producer from West Hartford, CT. Career [ edit ] Gendel served as co-executive producer for the fourth season of the CW sci-fi series, The 100 . [1]
Morgan Gendel. Producer. Writer. Director. IMDbPro Starmeter See rank. Morgan Gendel is known for Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987), Law & Order (1990) and The 100 (2014). More at IMDbPro. Contact info.
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Morgan has written or produced more than 250 episodes of primetime television and has served as Showrunner or Executive Producer on four series. His proprietary “6 Boxes to Check” storytelling process has been adopted by dozens of film & TV writers and producers, and is now helping corporate clients hone their media materials and investor ...
Dec 13, 2019 · Morgan Gendel is a veteran of TV writing. He’s written on The 100, Law and Order, Nash Bridges, and, most famously on Star Trek. Recently, he wrote and released his first novel Planet Six, the ...
- Pitching “The Inner Light”
- Fighting Over A Flute
- Getting The Details Right
- Hugos, Harlan Ellison, and The Outsider’S Perspective
- On Die Hard and Dogs
- Life After Trek
- Hoping For Emotion and Family in Discovery
Let’s go back to the genesis of “The Inner Light.” This script was your first Trek sale and you came in as an outsider with an unusually long pitch process between yourself and showrunner Michael Piller. You went back and forth a number of times. Did you know all along that this was something they were going to buy and you were just trying to get i...
The flute is a huge part of the story and very much associated with this episode. You were even involved in turning it into a retail item with Roddenberry. But apparently having Picard playing the flute was controversial. Can you talk through why they resisted and how you talked Piller into it? This is going to be less dramatic than I should probab...
The way the episode is structured is you start like any regular episode where the Enterprise encounters something and then you start to bounce back and forth between Picard’s life on Kataan getting older and the rest of the crew on the Enterprise dealing with Picard. Was that a difficult process of getting the right balance between Picard scenes an...
Very few people who wrote for Star Trek also won Hugo Awards. There was Gene Roddenberry of course and then Ron Moore and Brannon Braga, who were two of the most prolific staff writers. But then there are two others. One is Harlan Ellison and then there is you. And we have the number one and number two ranked Star Trek episodes … and he is number o...
OK so I just fed your ego, let me go in the other direction. You wrote four episodes of Star Trek. “Inner Light” is very lauded. Then there are a couple of other solid ones with your Die Hardon the Enterprise “Starship Mine” and the Julian and Miles bonding/starting their friendship with “Armageddon Game” (DS9). But then there is another DS9 episod...
For an outsider you were fairly active in Trek for a brief period with four episodes on the air over a 20-month period between ’92 and ’94, and then you moved on. Did you stop pitching Trek or were you drawn to other non-Star Trek projects? I wasn’t hired on staff and then I got put on full time on another Paramount syndicated show – the 90s reboot...
One last thing before I leave you. Have you seen the new Star Trek: Discoverytrailer and do you have any thoughts on it? I did see it. I am not the biggest Star Trek fan – I hate to say that – but I am interested enough to see what this series is like. My immediate reaction and I know others have commented that it is more like the J.J. Abrams movie...
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By Morgan Gendel I don’t know where you’ll be tonight but I know what I’ll be doing: taking “ The Inner Light ” out for its 24st birthday. We’ll toss back a few and reminisce and I’ll say things like, “Damn, time flies” and “The Inner Light” will probably say, “How do you think I feel; my episode felt like it took 50 ...
May 21, 2013 · Morgan Gendel: I was friends with Joe Menosky, and Joe Menosky had come to the Stephen J. Cannell company. He was, I believe, writing on a show called Hunter , and I sort of helped Joe. Joe was coming in there as a freelancer originally, and I was an executive at NBC assigned to the Cannell company.
