Morgan Adley Gendel (born 1952) is an American screenwriter and television producer from
West Hartford, CT.
Career
Gendel served as co-executive producer for the fourth season of the CW sci-fi series, ''
The 100''.
He has written for such television shows as ''
Nash Bridges
''Nash Bridges'' is an American police procedural television series created by Carlton Cuse. The show stars Don Johnson and Cheech Marin as two Inspectors with the San Francisco Police Department's Special Investigations Unit (SIU).
The seri ...
'', ''Law & Order'',
and ''Star Trek: Deep Space Nine''
Gendel is perhaps best known for having written "
The Inner Light", one of the most popular and lauded episodes of ''
Star Trek: The Next Generation'', for which he won the
Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation
The Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation is given each year for theatrical films, television episodes, or other dramatized works related to science fiction or fantasy released in the previous calendar year. Originally the award covered both ...
with
Peter Allan Fields
Peter Allan Fields (May 12, 1935 – June 19, 2019) was a screenwriter and producer, best known for many episodes of '' Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'' and '' Star Trek: The Next Generation''. Fields wrote some of the most acclaimed episodes of both ...
who wrote the final draft of the script
and the episode's director
Peter Lauritson. He was the first television writer to win the Hugo for the franchise in 22 years, since the original ''Star Trek'' television series received it in 1968 for
Harlan Ellison
Harlan Jay Ellison (May 27, 1934 – June 28, 2018) was an American writer, known for his prolific and influential work in New Wave science fiction, New Wave speculative fiction and for his outspoken, combative personality. His published wo ...
's screenplay to "
The City on the Edge of Forever
"The City on the Edge of Forever" is the twenty-eighth and penultimate episode of the Star Trek: The Original Series season 1, first season of the American science fiction on television, science fiction television series ''Star Trek: The Origin ...
".
As a producer, Gendel brought ''
The Dresden Files
''The Dresden Files'' is a series of contemporary fantasy/Mystery fiction, mystery novels written by American author Jim Butcher. The first novel, ''Storm Front (The Dresden Files), Storm Front''—which was also Butcher's writing debut—was p ...
'' novels to the screen as
a TV series on the SciFi Channel. He produced the movie ''
Frankenhood'' for Lionsgate and directed web series ''Pushed'' for
The WB
The WB Television Network (shortened to The WB, stylized as "THE WB", and nicknamed the "Frog Network" and/or "The Frog" for its former mascot Michigan J. Frog) was an American television network that ran from 1995 to 2006. It launched on ter ...
.com.
References
Bibliography
Alien shares a political strain with Andromeda- LA Times Article by Morgan Gendel
Five Big Issues Raised by The Inner Light Tor.com
Interview with The Inner Light Writer Morgan Gendel Trekcore.com
Finding The Inner Light at the Star Trek ConventionArtsFuse.org
External links
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Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
American male screenwriters
American television producers
1952 births
Hugo Award–winning writers