So young! I am desolate. 
He will be long remembered. Rest in peace, good sir.
He will be long remembered. Rest in peace, good sir.
Manny Coto RIP
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Just heard about this. 
RIP Manny Coto.
RIP Manny Coto.
Fuck. I really appreciated what he did with Enterprise but I also really enjoyed his shows Odyssey 5 and neXt. Chuck and Paige on Odyssey 5 are easily one of my favourite TV couples. Also a big fan of 24 which he worked on. I like what he did with Enterprise season 4, how he took chances with the arcs, embraced the history of the franchise more, and I believe it was him who sought out the reeves-stevens to come write for the show which was a neat addition to the series. I think it's a really solid season of TV. RIP.
Oh no, awful news! Thank you so much for everything you did to create a truly great season of Trek that resonates and means a lot to many people.
No! RIP!
John Billingsley asked me to release this statement to the community:
"While I didn't know Manny C. incredibly well, or at all outside of the work place, I would like to say that every interaction I had with him, on Enterprise, 24, and Next, the three shows he did that I worked on, was joyful and spirited and just goddamned super-duper fun.
Manny was ferociously smart, well-read, funny, playful, irreverent, and kind. At lunch, on the set, ya kinda can feel like you used to in Middle School, where, when you walk into the cafeteria, yer nervously looking around for somebody super cool and hip to sit with (somebody who'll have you, too). . . Well, I always gravitated towards Manny's lunch table at lunch time . . . only if he didn't seem to be talking about heady matters of state (i.e, the demands of the production he was helming). We argued politics, we talked about smarty pants stuff, cuz he was so on top of everything, of anything you wanted to discuss . . . I brought him a couple of books one time by an obscure author that I thought he might like and sure enough, he'd read the author, was delighted to have the books . . . . currying favor, sure, so he'd hire me for his next show . . . Damn it, Manny. Now no next show!
I'm not the only one who got screwed there, so did the millions of people who loved his terrific, always propulsive and imaginative work. M., you were a great mensch, and a terrific storyteller, who brought soooooo much richness to Enterprise in the two years you were there . . . and as somebody who lost his mother to pancreatic cancer, the same bastard cancer that felled Manny, please please please all of you who are reading this, be aware that early detection is key, and hie yourself hither to the doc if you have any history of p.c. in your family and are experiencing any of the symptoms . . . Flights of angels, Manny, although my memory is that you were an atheist, we had that in common . . . so maybe better to just say THANKS for all you did to make the world a better gin joint. And all my sympathies and love to his family and his fans".
"While I didn't know Manny C. incredibly well, or at all outside of the work place, I would like to say that every interaction I had with him, on Enterprise, 24, and Next, the three shows he did that I worked on, was joyful and spirited and just goddamned super-duper fun.
Manny was ferociously smart, well-read, funny, playful, irreverent, and kind. At lunch, on the set, ya kinda can feel like you used to in Middle School, where, when you walk into the cafeteria, yer nervously looking around for somebody super cool and hip to sit with (somebody who'll have you, too). . . Well, I always gravitated towards Manny's lunch table at lunch time . . . only if he didn't seem to be talking about heady matters of state (i.e, the demands of the production he was helming). We argued politics, we talked about smarty pants stuff, cuz he was so on top of everything, of anything you wanted to discuss . . . I brought him a couple of books one time by an obscure author that I thought he might like and sure enough, he'd read the author, was delighted to have the books . . . . currying favor, sure, so he'd hire me for his next show . . . Damn it, Manny. Now no next show!
I'm not the only one who got screwed there, so did the millions of people who loved his terrific, always propulsive and imaginative work. M., you were a great mensch, and a terrific storyteller, who brought soooooo much richness to Enterprise in the two years you were there . . . and as somebody who lost his mother to pancreatic cancer, the same bastard cancer that felled Manny, please please please all of you who are reading this, be aware that early detection is key, and hie yourself hither to the doc if you have any history of p.c. in your family and are experiencing any of the symptoms . . . Flights of angels, Manny, although my memory is that you were an atheist, we had that in common . . . so maybe better to just say THANKS for all you did to make the world a better gin joint. And all my sympathies and love to his family and his fans".
RIP
Oh, no. Damn.
God be with him, we've lost a good one.
Rest in Peace.
God be with him, we've lost a good one.
Rest in Peace.
A beautiful eulogy for him, I never knew that Manny Coto was of Cuban descent.Rest in peace my friend ! He actually had his own website that I have been taking care for him since 2005 (mannycoto.com) . Hard to believe he is gone. My condolences to Robin and the kids.
I hope that you do not mind me quoting the full article, but I think that it is good for people to be able to read it here at TrekBBS in memoriam both now and in the future, especially if they do not like clicking external links; source www.mannycoto.comManny Coto, who won an Outstanding Drama Series Emmy for 24, worked on its sequel series, co-created Fox’s AI drama neXt and was an EP on Dexter, Star Trek: Enterprise, American Horror Story and others, died Sunday of pancreatic cancer at his home in Pasadena. He was 62.
A representative speaking on behalf of the family confirmed the news today, saying he had fought the disease for 13 months and passed surrounded by loved ones.
he Cuban-born Coto shared the Outstanding Drama Series Emmy for 24’s fifth season in 2005. He continued on 24 through its eighth and final season, and co-created its sequel series, 24: Live Another Day and 24: Legacy. He also served as executive producer on four seasons of American Horror Story and two seasons of American Horror Stories, directing the 2021 episode 'Feral' of the latter.
"Manny was an incredibly beloved member of the 20th Television and FX family for close to two decades, 20th Television and FX said in a statement. “He was brilliantly creative with a deep intellectual curiosity, and his loyalty and friendship touched many. He will be immensely missed by all who were fortunate to have known and worked with him over the years, and our sincere condolences go out to his beautiful family at this most difficult time."
He also was an EP on the final three seasons of Showtime’s Dexter, scoring an Outstanding Drama Series Emmy nom in 2011, and EP’d the last two seasons of UPN’s Star Trek: Enterprise. The family’s representative said Coto’s lifelong love of Star Trek permeated his life and worldview — and that his impression of William Shatner as Captain Kirk left his writing staffs in stitches.
Coto created and ran the 2020 series NeXt for Fox and created Showtime’s Odyssey 5, starring Peter Weller. That drama premiered in 2002 and ran for two seasons, telling the story of a Space Shuttle crew thrown back in time five years to prevent Earth’s destruction.
NeXt starred Mad Men alum John Slattery in a fact-based thriller about the emergence of a deadly, rogue artificial intelligence and combines action with an examination of how technology is invading our lives and transforming us in ways we don’t yet understand. It lasted one season on Fox.
Born on June 10, 1961, in Havana, Coto and his mother fled the Castro regime and were joined later by his father. Raised near Walt Disney World in Orlando, he used his dad’s Super8 camera as a teenager to make a horror film, Flesh and later an MCU-themed pic called The Incredible Bulk, starring his wrestler friend Tico Perez in green body paint.
Coto relocated to Los Angeles in 1983, where he began working in commercials. He met actress Tippi Hedren and persuaded her to star in his murder mystery pic Twist — which, along with a 16mm-shot pic called Roommates he shot during college, got him into the American Film Institute. While there, Coto made the horror short Jack in the Box, which led him to do an episode of the syndicated series Monsters, then an episode of a re-booted Alfred Hitchcock Presents, where he wrote and directed a new version of Twist.
All that led to Coto’s first feature work: Playroom, a horror thriller about a doomed archeologist played by Christopher McDonald; Cover-Up, a political thriller starring Dolph Lundgren; and Star Kid, a family sci-fi film starring Joseph Mazzello. He also directed Zenon: The Zequel for Disney Channel.
Dr. Giggles, a horror film Coto co-wrote and directed in 1992, largely went unnoticed when it premiered, but it has since garnered cult status and a recent Blu-ray re-issue from Shout! Factory.
Coto’s family also cited The Ticking Man, an unproduced screenplay he co-wrote with partner Brian Helgeland in 1990 that was the first feature screenplay to sell for $1 million. It told the story of a bomb squad officer in pursuit of a cyborg equipped with a nuclear weapon. At a time when spec script sales were rising, Coto and Helgeland famously hatched the idea on the phone. “Let’s not hang up until we come up with an idea that we can sell for a million dollars,” Helgeland said. They stayed on, and after hashing it out, Coto suggested, 'What if a nuclear bomb became sentient?'
Helgeland went on to win an Adapted Screenplay Oscar for Curtis Hanson’s L.A. Confidential, which premiered at Cannes in 1997, and he also scored an Oscar nom in the same category for 2003’s Mystic River.
Coto is survived by his wife, Robin, a visual effects supervisor he met on the set of Odyssey 5; their children Manny, Riley, Charlotte and Finlay; his mother, Norma; his sister, Normi; his brother, Juan Carlos; and eight nieces and nephews.
Thank you for posting this. It gave me a smile to read this heartfelt remembrance, in John's inimitable style, of Manny. Please thank John for sharing it with us.
May he R.I.P.
Only just noticed this thread, if I end up being banned for reviving it then so be it.
A real shame on every level. From a Trek point of view I'm not sure he'll be remembered as much as I think he should be. He wasn't involved in Enterprise for long, which is one reason for him maybe not being remembered (the other being that Enterprise isn't a well remembered as it should be), but I think what he achieved was very impressive and what he had planned for season 5 and beyond could've cemented a really memorable legacy.
But, those in the know, won't forget Manny Coto. RIP Sir.
A real shame on every level. From a Trek point of view I'm not sure he'll be remembered as much as I think he should be. He wasn't involved in Enterprise for long, which is one reason for him maybe not being remembered (the other being that Enterprise isn't a well remembered as it should be), but I think what he achieved was very impressive and what he had planned for season 5 and beyond could've cemented a really memorable legacy.
But, those in the know, won't forget Manny Coto. RIP Sir.
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