Ira Steven Behr
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Ira Steven Behr was executive producer of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, as well as a writer of several episodes. He was also a producer on Star Trek: The Next Generation from 1989 to 1990. With writing partners Robert Hewitt Wolfe and, later, Hans Beimler, he possibly deserves the most credit for the Deep Space Nine Dominion War story arc.
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[edit] Biography
Ira Steven Behr graduated Lehman College in New York City and studied Mass Communications and Theater at Brandeis University where he was offered a playwriting scholarship. However, he moved to Los Angeles instead to pursue a career in writing comedies for television and film. But instead of comedy, Behr became known for his television dramas. His first breakthrough was on the James Garner television series Bret Maverick. He later served as story editor for the series Jessica Novack. Behr was also writer/producer of the series Fame, Once a Hero, and Bronx Zoo.
[edit] Star Trek
Behr can be seen sitting at a table in Vic Fontaine's lounge in DS9's finale, "What You Leave Behind", along with other series writers and producers, presumably as part of the holographic audience.
In pieces of background signage (such as the USS Defiant (NX-74205) dedication plaque), there is a listing of Behr's name, meaning that in a literal interpretation, there is a Starfleet officer named Ira Steven Behr.
Among the episodes he has a "special fondness for" are "The Nagus", "Past Tense, Part I", "Call to Arms", and "Duet". [1]
[edit] After Deep Space Nine
After Star Trek: Deep Space Nine ended its run, he has been involved in many other successful television shows. He was a consulting producer on Dark Angel and was an executive producer on The Twilight Zone (2002-2003). After that, he was the executive producer and writer on René Echevarria's The 4400.
He currently lives in the Hollywood Hills, California. He is happily married to his wife Laura and is the proud father of his two children Roxanne and Jesse.
[edit] Writing credits
- TNG:
- "Yesterday's Enterprise" (3.15) (with Richard Manning, Hans Beimler and Ronald D. Moore)
- "Captain's Holiday" (3.19)
- "Qpid" (4.20)
- DS9:
- "Babel" (1.05) (story, with Sally Caves)
- "The Nagus" (1.11) (teleplay only)
- "The Storyteller" (1.14) (with Kurt Michael Bensmiller)
- "The Homecoming" (2.01) (with Jeri Taylor)
- "Rules of Acquisition" (2.07) (teleplay only)
- "Second Sight" (2.09) (teleplay, with Mark Gehred-O'Connell and Robert Hewitt Wolfe)
- "The Maquis, Part II" (2.21) (teleplay only)
- "The Collaborator" (2.24) (teleplay, with Gary Holland and Robert Hewitt Wolfe)
- "The Jem'Hadar" (2.26)
- "The Search, Part I" (3.01) (story, with Wolfe)
- "The Search, Part II" (3.02) (story, with Wolfe)
- "Fascination" (3.10) (story, with James Crocker)
- "Past Tense, Part I" (3.11) (story, with Wolfe)
- "Past Tense, Part II" (3.12) (story with Wolfe, teleplay with René Echevarria)
- "Heart of Stone" (3.14) (with Wolfe)
- "Prophet Motive" (3.16) (with Wolfe)
- "Distant Voices" (3.18) (teleplay, with Wolfe)
- "Through the Looking Glass" (3.19) (with Wolfe)
- "Family Business" (3.23) (with Wolfe)
- "The Adversary" (3.26) (with Wolfe)
- "The Way of the Warrior" (4.01+02) (with Wolfe)
- "Little Green Men" (4.07) (teleplay, with Wolfe)
- "Homefront" (4.11) (with Wolfe)
- "Paradise Lost" (4.12) (teleplay, with Wolfe)
- "Bar Association" (4.16) (teleplay, with Wolfe)
- "Shattered Mirror" (4.20) (with Hans Beimler)
- "To the Death" (4.23) (with Wolfe)
- "Broken Link" (4.26) (teleplay, with Wolfe)
- "Apocalypse Rising" (5.01) (with Wolfe)
- "Trials and Tribble-ations" (5.06) (story, with Beimler and Wolfe)
- "Let He Who Is Without Sin..." (5.07) (with Wolfe)
- "The Ascent" (5.09) (with Wolfe)
- "In Purgatory's Shadow" (5.14) (with Wolfe)
- "By Inferno's Light" (5.15) (with Wolfe)
- "Ferengi Love Songs" (5.20) (with Beimler)
- "Blaze of Glory" (5.23) (with Wolfe)
- "Call to Arms" (5.26) (with Wolfe)
- "A Time to Stand" (6.01) (with Beimler)
- "Favor the Bold" (6.05) (with Beimler)
- "Sacrifice of Angels" (6.06) (with Beimler)
- "The Magnificent Ferengi" (6.10) (with Beimler)
- "Far Beyond the Stars" (6.13) (teleplay, with Beimler)
- "Wrongs Darker Than Death or Night" (6.17) (with Beimler)
- "His Way" (6.20) (with Beimler)
- "Profit and Lace" (6.23) (with Beimler)
- "Tears of the Prophets" (6.26) (with Beimler)
- "Image in the Sand" (7.01) (with Beimler)
- "Shadows and Symbols" (7.02) (with Beimler)
- "The Siege of AR-558" (7.08) (with Beimler)
- "The Emperor's New Cloak" (7.12) (with Beimler)
- "Badda-Bing, Badda-Bang" (7.15) (with Beimler)
- "The Changing Face of Evil" (7.20) (with Beimler)
- "What You Leave Behind" (7.25+26) (with Beimler)
- DS9 Novels:
[edit] External links
- Ira Steven Behr at Wikipedia
- Ira Steven Behr at the Internet Movie Database
- Ira Steven Behr at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
