David Livingston is an American

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and

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. He is mostly known for his involvement in the writing and production of the various modern ''

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'' franchises. Livingston also has production credits on several episodes of '' Seven Days'' and '' Threshold'' as well as a 2002 television remake of ''

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''.

Career

''Star Trek''

Livingston began his work with ''Star Trek'' as a

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on ''Next Generation'' in 1988 before moving up the ranks to become a supervising producer in 1992 for ''Next Generation'' and the subsequent ''Trek'' series. He served as a supervising producer on '' Star Trek: The Next Generation'', '' Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'' and '' Star Trek: Voyager''. He has directorial credits on two ''Next Generation'' episodes, 17 ''Deep Space Nine'' episodes, 28 ''Voyager'' episodes and 14 ''

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'' episodes, for a total of 62 episodes. He also has writing credits on the ''Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'' first-season episode "

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". Actor

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, who was cast in ''

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'', said director David Livingston was very thorough, and focused on "capturing a moment" about shooting the television episode " Shuttlepod One". In 1994, Livingston was nominated, along with the rest of the series' production staff, for an

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for Outstanding Drama Series for ''Next Generation''.

Contributions to the ''Star Trek'' universe

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in the

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's ready room for all seven years of ''Star Trek: The Next Generation'' was named Livingston after him, by art director

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. Also named after him were the Starship USS ''Livingston'' and

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Vice Admiral David Livingston, who was listed on the dedication plaques of the , , USS ''Pasteur'', and .

Other work

Livingston has production credits on several episodes the

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television series '' Seven Days'' and '' Threshold''. He also has direction credits on episodes of ''

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'', ''Seven Days'', ''

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'', ''

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'' and ''

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''. In 2000, Livingston wrote, directed and produced ''Slice of Life'', a short film starring Matthew Baer,

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and ''Star Trek: Voyager'''s

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. In 2004, Livingston opened a

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exhibition entitled "The Sign," featuring original photography of the

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. In 2005, he opened another exhibition entitled "Slice of Life" which featured some of Livingston's experimental photography. Livingston worked as photographer for WENN for nine months, before getting hired to work as a

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for

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Filmography

References

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