Morgan Adley Gendel (born 1952) is an American screenwriter and television producer from
West Hartford, CT
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The town's popular downtown area is colloquially ...
.
Career
Gendel served as co-executive producer for the fourth season of the CW sci-fi series, ''
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Arts and entertainment
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* ''The 100'' (novel series), a 2013–2016 science fiction novel series written by Kass Morgan
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''.
He has written for such television shows as ''
Nash Bridges'', ''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 writer and producer, who was best known for many episodes of ''Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'' and '' Star Trek: The Next Generation''. He also wrote for ''The Six Million Dollar Man'', includ ...
who wrote the final draft of the script
and the episode's director
Peter Lauritson
Peter Lauritson is a long-time film producer and director and television producer and director who first became involved with the '' Star Trek'' franchise with '' Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan''. He went on to become a producer for '' Star Trek ...
. 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'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 first season of the American science fiction television series ''Star Trek''. Written by Harlan Ellison, contributors and/or editors to the script included S ...
".
As a producer, Gendel brought ''
The Dresden Files
''The Dresden Files'' is a series of contemporary fantasy/ mystery novels written by American author Jim Butcher. The first novel, '' Storm Front''—which was also Butcher's writing debut—was published in 2000 by Roc Books.
The books are wr ...
'' 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
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.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