Michael Piller (May 30, 1948 – November 1, 2005) was an American television scriptwriter and producer, who was most famous for his contributions to the Star Trek franchise.
Piller was born in Port Chester, New York. With parents who were both involved in writing, his father as a Hollywood screenwriter and his mother as a songwriter, he planned to be a scriptwriter from an early age. However a college lecturer discouraged him, and Piller started o...
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Michael Piller (May 30, 1948 – November 1, 2005) was an American television scriptwriter and producer, who was most famous for his contributions to the Star Trek franchise.
Piller was born in Port Chester, New York. With parents who were both involved in writing, his father as a Hollywood screenwriter and his mother as a songwriter, he planned to be a scriptwriter from an early age. However a college lecturer discouraged him, and Piller started out in television working as an Emmy Award-winning journalist for CBS News in New York, WBTV in Charlotte, North Carolina, and WBBM-TV in Chicago, Illinois. However he then moved to Los Angeles, California and the entertainment side of television in the late 1970s, working as a censor and then a programming executive for CBS. He began writing scripts for television, and after selling a script to Cagney & Lacey and another to Simon & Simon, he was offered a staff writing position on Simon & Simon, where he stayed for three years, becoming a...
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