Rick Berman
Executive producer of The Next Generation from the start, Rick has won Emmy awards for his work on Star Trek. He helped create Voyager, and has inherited the Star Trek media empire from Gene Roddenberry.

The Science of Star Trek
  How important a role has real science had in the success of Star Trek?

Light Speed
  Warping the rules of Physics - how accurate is Trek Science?

Following the Rules
  Are there any scientific rules that Star Trek writers never break?

Mistakes Happen...
  How maintaining an invented world can go wrong

The Science Advisor
  Andre Bormarnis and his role within the series.

Minsky, Aldrin and Pasadena
  What happened before Andre joined The Next Generation?

Back Story
  Deep Space 9 and gaineg experience

Back to the Future
  Will 'Enterprise' have more science? What will it be like?

Inventing the Federation
  How science and technology will advance in Enterprise

Flux variance in the Jeffries Tubes?
  How actors deal with techno-babble

Provocative issues
  Do you find writing Science Fiction more satisfying than other kinds of drama?

Stylised Future
  On the strangeness of leaving science fiction

Evolution
  How the Star Trek universe has evolved through the basic premise of each series.

Finding Conflict
  How to create Drama in a perfect world

From Deep Space to the Delta Quadrant
  How Deep Space 9 helped shape Voyager

From Voyager to Enterprise
  Really going where no man has gone before

Crossover Potential
  Why the Next Generation and Deep Space Nine overlapped

Competition
  Starting the TV Sci-Fi renaissance

Sitting in Kirk's Seat
  Facing the challenge of creating new Star Trek

Hitting Home
  What was the quintessential Star Trek quality that made the The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine work?

Influencing reality
  How Star Trek affected the world's perception of space

Bobbly Heads
  Taking aliens for granted.

Captain's Orders
  How a captain sets the tone

Big Screen, Small Screen
  The problems of making Films and Television

Young Upstarts
  Will Buffy and the X-Files kill Star Trek?

The Key
  Star Trek's enduring popularity

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