By Alvin Alexander. Last updated: June 4, 2016
A few times a year I’m reminded that a single individual can make a big difference. Last night I watched the William Shatner documentary that covered the first three years of Star Trek: The Next Generation, and it’s clear from that documentary and other sources that Michael Piller made an enormous difference to STNG. We’ll never know if the show would have just died off without him, but everyone in the documentary credits him with the show’s success. He later helped develop the other Star Trek properties, and also created The Dead Zone tv series.
