Episodes Written by Rick Berman

[Falcor5]

I know Rick Berman gets bashed alot but I just watched the TNG episode "Brothers" the other day and I was stunned to see the episode was entirely written by Rick Berman. I have always considered this to be one of the best TNG episodes so it got me wondering what other episodes he wrote or co-wrote. So I just looked it up on Memory Alpha. Granted its mostly Voyager and Ent episodes but he was involved in writing alot more episodes then I remembered. Are you surprised to see that any of your favorite episodes were written by or co-written by Berman? Here is the list:


* TNG Season 4: (1)
o "Brothers"

* TNG Season 5: (4)
o "Ensign Ro" (story with Michael Piller)
o "Unification I" (story with Michael Piller)
o "Unification II" (story with Michael Piller)
o "A Matter of Time"

* DS9 Season 1: (1)
o "Emissary" (story with Michael Piller)

* DS9 Season 2: (2)
o "The Maquis, Part I" (story with Michael Piller, Jeri Taylor, and James Crocker)
o "The Maquis, Part II" (story with Michael Piller, Jeri Taylor, and Ira Steven Behr)

* VOY Season 1: (1)
o "Caretaker" (story with Michael Piller and Jeri Taylor)

* VOY Season 4: (1)
o "Hope and Fear" (story with Brannon Braga and Joe Menosky)

* VOY Season 5: (3)
o "Timeless" (story with Brannon Braga and Joe Menosky)
o "Think Tank" (story with Brannon Braga)
o "Equinox" (story with Brannon Braga and Joe Menosky)

* VOY Season 6: (2)
o "Equinox, Part II" (story with Brannon Braga and Joe Menosky)
o "Fury" (story with Brannon Braga)

* VOY Season 7: (1)
o "Endgame" (story with Kenneth Biller, and Brannon Braga)

* ENT Season 1: (18)
o "Broken Bow" (with Brannon Braga)
o "Fight or Flight" (with Brannon Braga)
o "Strange New World" (story with Brannon Braga)
o "Unexpected" (with Brannon Braga)
o "Terra Nova" (story with Brannon Braga)
o "The Andorian Incident" (story with Brannon Braga and Fred Dekker)
o "Shadows of P'Jem" (story with Brannon Braga)
o "Shuttlepod One" (with Brannon Braga)
o "Fusion" (story with Brannon Braga)
o "Rogue Planet" (story with Brannon Braga and Chris Black)
o "Acquisition" (story with Brannon Braga)
o "Oasis" (story with Brannon Braga and Stephen Beck)
o "Detained" (story with Brannon Braga)
o "Vox Sola" (story with Brannon Braga and Fred Dekker)
o "Fallen Hero" (story with Brannon Braga and Chris Black)
o "Desert Crossing" (story with Brannon Braga and André Bormanis)
o "Two Days and Two Nights" (story with Brannon Braga)
o "Shockwave" (with Brannon Braga)

* ENT Season 2: (13)
o "Shockwave, Part II" (with Brannon Braga)
o "Carbon Creek" (story with Brannon Braga and Dan O'Shannon)
o "A Night in Sickbay" (with Brannon Braga)
o "Marauders" (story with Brannon Braga)
o "The Seventh" (with Brannon Braga)
o "The Communicator" (story with Brannon Braga)
o "Vanishing Point" (with Brannon Braga)
o "Precious Cargo" (story with Brannon Braga)
o "Stigma" (with Brannon Braga)
o "The Crossing" (teleplay with Brannon Braga, story with Brannon Braga and André Bormanis)
o "Cogenitor" (with Brannon Braga)
o "Bounty" (story with Brannon Braga)
o "The Expanse" (with Brannon Braga)

* ENT Season 3: (5)
o "The Xindi" (with Brannon Braga)
o "Carpenter Street" (with Brannon Braga)
o "Harbinger" (story with Brannon Braga)
o "Azati Prime" (story with Brannon Braga and Manny Coto)
o "Zero Hour" (with Brannon Braga)

* ENT Season 4: (1)
o "These Are the Voyages..." (with Brannon Braga)

http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Rick_Berman

 

[clint g]

I definitely think he is unnecessarily demonized by Trek fans. Hes certainly responsible for many enjoyable hours of Trek, and for that i'm grateful

 

[Myasishchev]

There are only two good episodes that I can confirm on that list...

Brothers is, indeed, a fine hour of television. Emissary is the best Trek pilot of them all, with the possible but unlikely exception of the Cage.

Ensign Ro may or may not be a good episode. I recall liking the character all right (and Michelle Forbes blew me away in BSG), but less so when it was a focus episode on her and her Bajoranocity.

DS9's The Maquis I recall being plodding, but it's been ages since I've seen it--I remember Eddington's Maquis stories vividly, but not the ones with the other guy.

 

[Mr Pointy Ears]

Have to admit some of those episodes mentioned,i did enjoy one like equniox episode.

 

[miraclefan]

Have to admit some of those episodes mentioned,i did enjoy one like equniox episode.

But almost EVERY episode he wrote on Enterprise was utter CRAP!

 

[SFRabid]

Emissary and The Andorian Incident are two of my favorite Trek Episodes. It is hard to believe the people who wrote those also wrote Two Days and Two Nights and These are the Voyages.

 

[Jaespol]

Hmm, Rick Berman wasn't involved in the actual writing process as much as it would appear..but I certainly don't dislike him.