This sucks...Michael Piller has died.

[SoulOnIce]

http://www.trektoday.com/news/011105_01.shtml

[Nate Grey]

Wow man. If not for him we wouldn't have had Deep Space Nine. May he rest in peace.

[Gaz]

Damn, that sucks. :(

[hugh45]

Michael Piller, a longtime executive producer of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine and Voyager, lost his battle with cancer today. The co-creator of Deep Space Nine and Voyager and writer of Star Trek: Insurrection, whose most recent production was the ABC Family series Wildfire, died at age 57.

Piller, who produced more than 500 hours of Star Trek, had struggled with an aggressive form of head and neck cancer but kept his condition private from many of his associates. StarTrek.com notes that in addition to his writing and producing credits on the Star Trek shows, Piller co-created UPN's Legend and more recently USA's The Dead Zone, along with his son, Shawn Piller.

Born in Portchester, New York, Piller worked at one time as a television censor. Before he became a full-time writer, he was an Emmy Award-winning broadcast journalist with CBS News in New York. Stints as an editor and news director in Charlotte and Chicago preceded a job as a programming executive. Piller's credits included police dramas such as Cagney & Lacey and Miami Vice; in addition to The Dead Zone and Wildfire, he co-created and executive produced Group One Medical.

Man!It seems that someone dies from ST family every year.I hope noone
does for the next 50yrs. :(







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[Captain Jim]

TrekWeb has a very extensive report on this. Read it here (http://trekweb.com/articles/2005/11/01/436796b6736bd.shtml).

Star Trek fandom has suffered a great loss. His impact on the franchise was huge, more than most people probably realize. He, more than anyone else, was responsible for turning TNG around during the third season and opening the way for everything else that followed. To die at such a young age; what a tragedy. He will definitely be missed.

[Deathstroke]

Damn, I was hugely surprised about this. I had never even heard that he had cancer.

I wonder how this will affect the running of The Dead Zone and Wildfire.