On this day in the Star Trek universe - Voyager, Insurrection, Enterprise (1996, 1998, 2016, 2002)

Star Trek: Voyager
Season 3. Episode 12.

Episode entitled: Macrocosm.

Released December 11, 1996.

Directed by Alexander Singer.

Created by Rick Berman, Michael Piller, Jeri Taylor.

Written by Brannon Braga, Lisa Klink.

Based on Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.

Music by Dennis McCarthy.

Cast:

Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Biggs-Dawson, Jennifer Lien, Robert Duncan McNeill, Ethan Phillips, Robert Picardo, Tim Russ, Garrett Wang, Albie Selznick, Michael Fiske, Antony Acker, Debbie David, Adriana del Pomar, Michele Edison, Tarik Ergin, Marie Micheaux, Traci Murray, Louis Ortiz, Martin Squires.

 

Star Trek: Insurrection

Directed by Jonathan Frakes.

Written by Michael Piller.

Based on a story by Rick Berman and Michael Piller.

Released December 11, 1998.

Music by Jerry Goldsmith.

Cast:

Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis, F. Murray Abraham, Donna Murphy, Anthony Zerbe, Gregg Henry, Daniel Hugh Kelly, Michael Welch, Mark Deakins, Stephanie Niznik.

 

Star Trek Insurrection

by J. M. Dillard, Rick Berman, Michael Piller.

Published by Pocket Books.
Published 1998.

ISBN-10: 0671024477
ISBN-13: 978-0671024475

Description:

The actions of a mysterious new alien species with whom Starfleet has made an alliance, force Captain Picard to choose between his conscience and direct Starfleet orders.

 

FADE IN: The Making of Star Trek Insurrection
A Textbook on Screenwriting from Within the Star Trek Universe

by Michael Piller.

Published 2016.

ISBN-10: 0692718931
ISBN-13: 978-0692718933

Description:

In keeping with Michael’s widely respected mentorship of up-and-coming writers, “Fade In: The Making of Star Trek - Insurrection” has been published as a textbook that can also be enjoyed as a coffee table book - full of exclusive, never before seen photos and commentary - for the enjoyment of Star Trek fans around the world. Written by Michael Piller, who has been variously described as a “writer’s writer” and the man who played a major role in saving the Star Trek franchise, here is the very inside story of the writing process that resulted in the franchise’s 1998 film Star Trek: Insurrection. Certainly, for Star Trek fans – of which there are legions – and students of film and television, this is a sought-after look at the screenwriting process from concept to final film script through the inclusion of treatments, story meetings, storyboards, and the moving of the Trek characters on the resultant creative chessboard. Fans, hungry for this kind of rare access, may well be thoroughly engrossed in and entertained by the book; whereas students of writing for television and film will definitely benefit from this textbook as not only reference material but also as a bona fide annotated resource on this particular film and/or on the entire Star Trek oeuvre, in general.

 

Star Trek: Enterprise
Season 2. Episode 11.

Episode entitled: Precious Cargo.

Released December 11, 2002.

Directed by David Livingston.

Written by David A. Goodman, Rick Berman, Brannon Braga, André Bormanis.

Created by Rick Berman, Brannon Braga.

Based on Star Trek, created by Gene Roddenberry.

Opening theme song: Faith of the Heart, performed by Russell Watson.

Closing theme: Archer's Theme, by Dennis McCarthy.

Music by Paul Baillargeon.

Cast:

Scott Bakula, John Billingsley, Jolene Blalock, Dominic Keating, Anthony Montgomery, Linda Park, Connor Trinneer, Padma Lakshmi, Scott Klace, Leland Crooke, Alexandrea Ortiz, Bryan Heiberg.