René Echevarria, Stark Trek: Deep Space Nine writer, producer, editor.
René Echevarria is a Cuban-American writer, producer and story editor of many Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episodes. He also appeared as a holographic bar patron in the final episode of Deep Space Nine, “What You Leave Behind”.
René Echevarria, began his career as an amateur screenwriter submitting unsolicited scripts to the producers of Star Trek: The Next Generation. After using a few of his stories, they hired him as a writer. He then became a regular contributor to Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. He has written for Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as well as the TV series Now and Again, Castle, Dark Angel, Medium, Terra Nova and is co-creator and writer of The 4400.
After graduating with a degree in History from Duke University in 1984, Rene Echevarria moved to New York City to pursue a career in theater. He joined the Circle Repertory Lab Company in 1985, where he assistant directed a production of Victor Muniz’ play “Darts”, and acted in a production of Gorky’s “Lower Depths”.
In 1986, he acted in Kristin McCloy’s play “Isosceles” at the Chelsea Theater, and in 1987, he was seen in the La Mama Theater adaptation of Aeschuylus’ “Oresteia”. He collaborated with Kristin McCloy on the full-length play “Prepared”, which was presented at the World’s End Theater in London during 1988, and went on to be performed at that year’s Edinburgh Festival.
In 1989, he wrote a spec script for ‘Star Trek: The Next Generation’ called “The Offspring”. He became a Story Editor for the show’s sixth season, and Executive Story Editor during its seventh and final season, for which the show received an Emmy Nomination for Best Dramatic Series. Echevarria then took the job of Co-Supervising Producer on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993). His 30-plus episodes of Star Trek have won him a Humanitas nomination, a Peabody nomination, two Hugo nominations, and a NASA Vision award for best depiction of humanity’s future in space. In 1994, he received a Special Achievement award from the Latino Media Organization HAMAS.
Echevarria can be seen in the background of the scene set at Vic Fontaine’s Lounge in the final episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, “What You Leave Behind”.
With fellow Star Trek Producer ‘Ken Biller’, he developed the scenario for _Star Trek: The Experience (1998)_, a theme park attraction built by Paramount Parks at the Las Vegas Hilton. In 1999-2000, Echevarria was supervising producing on Paramount’s short-lived but critically praised Now and Again (1999) on CBS. In July 2000, he signed on as co-executive producer of Dark Angel (2000) the science fiction series created by James Cameron for the Fox network, as part of an overall multi year deal with 20th Century Fox Television to develop new projects for the studio.
Producer career.
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine producer (1994-1997), co-supervising producer (1997-1998), supervising producer (1998-1999)
Now and Again supervising producer (1999–2000)
Dark Angel executive producer (2001–2002); co-executive producer (2000–2001)
MDs executive producer (2002)
The 4400 executive producer (2004)
Medium executive producer (2005–2008)
Castle executive producer (2009–2010)
Teen Wolf executive producer (2011-)
Terra Nova (TV series) executive producer (2011)
Many of the Star Trek were written by him.
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Arnoldo Varona, Editor.