Jeri Taylor (born June 30, 1938) is a television scriptwriter and
producer, who wrote many episodes of the Star Trek: The Next
Generation and Star Trek: Voyager series.She is an alumna of Indiana
University, where she was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta. She also
received her M.A. in English from California State University,
Northridge, in 1966.Having previously written scripts for television
series like Little House on the Prairie and The Incredible Hulk and,
after serving as a producer and director on Quincy, M.E. and Jake and
the Fatman, Taylor was recommended to the producers of Star Trek: The
Next Generation by Lee Sheldon, with whom she had worked on
Quincy.Taylor joined The Next Generation staff at the beginning of the
fourth season as a supervising producer, co-writing the second episode
to go into production, "Suddenly Human". After two years, Taylor
became co-executive producer with Rick Berman and Michael Piller and
served as executive producer/showrunner for the (final) seventh season
of The Next Generation. During this time, she received credit on a
number of episodes, including Wil Wheaton's final episode as a regular
character, "Final Mission"; the episode that introduced the Cardassian
race, which featured heavily in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, "The
Wounded"; and the first of a two part episode featuring Spock,
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