Rick Berman
Producer
About This Interview
Rick Berman was interviewed for three hours plus in his office at Paramount Pictures in Los Angeles, CA. He talked about his early years in television, where he worked as a producer on documentary series and specials including The Big Blue Marble . He talked about his move to Los Angeles and working as a development executive before being tapped by Gene Roddenberry to work on his new series. He recounted his involvement in launching — Star Trek: The Next Generation , and his long association with the subsequent franchise in both television and feature films. He gave his impressions of series creator Gene Roddenberry and talked about Roddenberry's vision of a hopeful future for mankind. He discussed taking the reigns of the series following Roddenberry's death and his association as both a producer and co-creator of the later Star Trek series: Deep Space Nine, Voyager, and Enterprise . For each of these series he outlined the premise and spoke in-depth about the cast members and their characters. The interview was conducted by Jennifer Howard on May 31, 2006.
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@omma911
Its not his fault, its Paramount execs who pressured him. You should be grateful.
@59:36 Rick Berman speaking about the cliffhanger ending of "Best of Both Worlds":
"As the episode ends, Riker is about to blow up the Enterprise. He's on another ship."
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@bauar06
He is uneasy about talking about Voyager and Enterprise.
Ok, several things:
1. People should give Rick Berman a breake! Besides Gene Roddenberry, he IS Star Trek, and we all owe him at least half of what we owe Roddenberry! While I think TNG was the best, I did like DS9 and Voyager and HATED Enterprise. STILL, he is the man!
2. I'm still somewhat surprised how many things he misremembered :) 1. It's the Enterprise D, not E on TNG. Second, it's UhurA, not UhurOO on TOS. Third: Nana Visitor did NOT play Ensign Ro on TNG! And those are only a few...
What is it with Ricks?!
Ron Jones sends his condolences to Star Trek's epic soundtrack while he was composing for it.
Oh he means Star Trek X which sucked lols ugh watch ratings plummet you will see
Rick wasn't perfect, but I will say he did great things for the Star Trek franchise and I salute him.
Thanks for killing Star Trek, noob.
I am wondering what Rick Berman thinks about the J.J Abrams movie.
Gonna Miss Him.... Like the new Re-Boot. But his Trek will ALWAYS be MY TREK!
@Bla31n
100% agree with you.
The only thing Berman did before STAR TREK was a kid's show. For whatever their reasons, Paramount left him in charge half way through the first season of TNG. Whatever it is, he did not, as long as he was in charge, know a thing about science fiction, and he didn't know anything about drama.
I've been watching Star Trek for the past 3 years non stop.. at least an episode a day.. and I don't see any stopping it. I don't see it as a show. It's like gene vision "a hopeful outlook on the future of the human race". I have a lot of hatred and disgust for what our world is today. Watching Star Trek makes me have peace of mind. I hope that in the future humanity will take their heads our their butt.
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