Joe Menosky
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Joe Menosky was Executive Story Editor during Star Trek: The Next Generation's fourth season and Co-producer during the fifth season.
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[edit] Biography
Joe Menosky started working on Star Trek during the fourth season of The Next Generation, and wrote scripts for the franchise as late as Star Trek: Voyager season seven. During his time with the franchise, he moved to Europe for three years. There, he wrote and developed television pilots for studio Gaumont in France, while continuing to write scripts for Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and then Star Trek: Voyager, on a freelance basis. When he came back to the United States, Menosky joined Star Trek: Voyager in its third season as a writer-producer.
In addition to Star Trek, Menosky recently sold a feature screenplay co-authored with Brannon Braga to director James Cameron (Terminator, Terminator II, and Aliens), called "Real Time".
Menosky had been a journalist before working in film and television. He used to be science editor and reporter for National Public Radio's All Things Considered and Morning Edition. Articles and essays of his have been re-printed numerous times in The Economist, The Washington Post, and MIT's Technology Review, among others.
Recently, Joe Menosky joined the writing staff of The Dead Zone, a new science fiction series from Michael Piller. The Dead Zone premiered in June 2004.
[edit] Writing credits
- TNG:
- Season 4:
- "Legacy"
- "Clues" (teleplay with Bruce D. Arthurs)
- "First Contact" (teleplay Dennis Russell Bailey, David Bischoff, Ronald D. Moore and Michael Piller)
- "The Nth Degree"
- "In Theory" (with Ronald D. Moore)
- Season 5:
- "Darmok" (teleplay)
- "Hero Worship" (teleplay)
- "Time's Arrow" (teleplay with Michael Piller, story)
- Season 6:
- "Time's Arrow, Part II" (story)
- "The Chase" (teleplay, story with Ronald D. Moore)
- "Suspicions" (with Naren Shankar)
- Season 7:
- Season 4:
- DS9:
- Season 1:
- Season 2:
- "Rivals" (teleplay)
- Season 3:
- "Distant Voices" (story)
- Season 6:
- "Time's Orphan" (story)
- VOY:
- Season 1:
- "Cathexis" (story with Brannon Braga)
- Season 2:
- "The Thaw" (teleplay)
- Season 3:
- "False Profits" (teleplay)
- "Remember" (story with Brannon Braga)
- "Future's End" (with Brannon Braga)
- "Future's End, Part II" (with Brannon Braga)
- "Alter Ego"
- "Darkling" (teleplay, story with Brannon Braga)
- "Distant Origin" (with Brannon Braga)
- "Scorpion" (with Brannon Braga)
- Season 4:
- "Scorpion, Part II" (with Brannon Braga)
- "The Gift"
- "Year of Hell" (with Brannon Braga)
- "Year of Hell, Part II" (with Brannon Braga)
- "Concerning Flight" (teleplay, story with Jimmy Diggs)
- "The Killing Game" (with Brannon Braga)
- "The Killing Game, Part II" (with Brannon Braga)
- "Living Witness" (teleplay with Bryan Fuller and Brannon Braga)
- "Hope and Fear" (teleplay with Brannon Braga, story with Rick Berman and Brannon Braga)
- Season 5:
- "Night" (with Brannon Braga)
- "Drone" (teleplay with Bryan Fuller and Brannon Braga)
- "Timeless" (teleplay with Brannon Braga, story with Rick Berman and Brannon Braga)
- "Latent Image" (teleplay, story with Eileen Connors and Brannon Braga)
- "Dark Frontier" (with Brannon Braga)
- "The Fight" (teleplay)
- "11:59" (teleplay, story with Brannon Braga)
- "Equinox" (teleplay with Brannon Braga, story with Rick Berman and Brannon Braga)
- Season 6:
- "Equinox, Part II" (teleplay with Brannon Braga, story with Rick Berman and Brannon Braga)
- "Tinker Tenor Doctor Spy" (teleplay)
- "Dragon's Teeth" (teleplay with Brannon Braga and Michael Taylor)
- "The Voyager Conspiracy"
- "Blink of an Eye" (teleplay with Scott Miller)
- "Good Shepherd" (teleplay with Dianna Gitto)
- "Muse"
- "Unimatrix Zero" (teleplay with Brannon Braga)
- Season 7:
- "Unimatrix Zero, Part II" (teleplay with Brannon Braga, story with Mike Sussman and Brannon Taylor)
- Season 1:
[edit] Background
- Menosky is probably best known as the writer who started inserting the number 47 into his scripts, a tradition carried on by Braga, Ronald D. Moore and others.
- Menosky is well known for writing "high-concept" scripts - some episodes written by him have been heavily criticized, but others have had great success.
