Richard Keith Berman (born December 25, 1945) is an American
television producer and screenwriter. He 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.Berman was born to a Jewish family and raised in New York City.
He attended college at the University of Wisconsinâ€"Madison,
receiving a degree in English and film production in 1967. He first
considered acting as a career, but decided not to pursue it because of
the high degree of difficulty in gaining success. He turned down an
offer to study at the Yale School of Drama. Starting a career as an
independent film producer, director, and writer, he made documentaries
and industrial films. Among his clients were the United Nations and
the United States Information Agency. By 1977, he had traveled to over
90 countries making films for these organizations.From 1977 to 1982,
he was the senior producer of PBS' The Big Blue Marble, which won an
Emmy Award for Outstanding Children's Series. Between 1982 and 1984,
he was an independent producer, working on projects that included
HBO's What on Earth and PBS' The Primal Mind. Berman joined Paramount
in 1984 as the director of current programming, overseeing series such
as Cheers and Family Ties. He was also executive director of dramatic
programming, overseeing series such as the miniseries Space and the
American Broadcasting Company (ABC) series MacGyver. He was promoted
in 1986 to vice-president of long-form and special projects at
Paramount Network Television.In 1987, Roddenberry selected Berman and
Maurice Hurley to help create Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Initially, he shared supervising producer duties with Robert H.
Justman. After Justman changed to consulting producer duties, Berman
was promoted to co-executive producer. As Roddenberry's health
declined, Berman took over more of the series' daily production. He
was promoted to executive producer in the series' third season,
following Hurley's departure. Berman wrote the TNG episodes "Brothers"
and "A Matter of Time". In its final year, The Next Generation became
the first syndicated television show to be nominated for the Best
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