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Roswell | Interviews | Jonathan Frakes
What do you actually do?
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Could you explain what your role is as an executive producer?
Good question. What does an Executive Producer do?
In my case I was able to put together the team that now runs the show. I�m not a writer. I was attached to direct the pilot but at the same time I was also finishing Insurrection, the last Star Trek movie. I wasn�t able to do both, so it worked out that David Nutter, who has great success with pilots, did our pilot and the show was sold.
As an executive producer who�s not a writer, my responsibilities are obviously to hire the best people for the jobs and to contribute notes to the scripts and then to the cuts as the shows come in. What I�m most proud of besides the casting and the good fortune of getting Katims is the addition of Ron Moore, who was a lead writer on Star Trek. He wrote First Contact, which was my first movie directing effort, and ran Deep Space Nine, and is a master of story telling and mythology.
[That] was something that we needed to address with our aliens, the mythology of where they came from, and where they�re going and what they are looking for. Ron Moore�s been able to come in and give us some wonderful big arcs to that end.
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