---
name: "Michael Taylor"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/michael-taylor"
fi1m_id: "michael-taylor"
imdb_id: "nm0852899"
tmdb_id: 1220834
wikidata_id: "Q6834819"
roles: ["Writer","Producer"]
born: "15 February 1950"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 84
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-22T02:51:42.424097+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Michael Taylor

## Identity

Michael Taylor

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/michael-taylor
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** michael-taylor
- **IMDb ID:** nm0852899
- **TMDB ID:** 1220834
- **Wikidata ID:** Q6834819
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Taylor_(screenwriter), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6834819, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0852899/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1220834

Writer and producer. Born 15 February 1950.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer, Producer
- **Born:** 15 February 1950
- **Active:** 1993–present
- **Also known as:** Michael A. Taylor
- **Frequently works with:** [Allan Kroeker](https://film.one/person/allan-kroeker.md), [Bradley Thompson](https://film.one/person/bradley-thompson.md), [David Weddle](https://film.one/person/david-weddle.md), [Jane Espenson](https://film.one/person/jane-espenson.md), [Ronald D. Moore](https://film.one/person/ronald-d-moore.md)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 84, as writer, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 85 (1), 2000s 83 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Taylor_(screenwriter), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6834819, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0852899/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1220834

## Streaming the US now

- **Paramount+:** [*Star Trek: Deep Space Nine*](https://film.one/tv/star-trek-deep-space-nine.md) (85), [*Battlestar Galactica*](https://film.one/tv/battlestar-galactica.md) (83)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Battlestar Galactica* (2004), Fi1m 83, Co-Executive Producer, Supervising Producer, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/battlestar-galactica.md)
- *Star Trek: Deep Space Nine* (1993), Fi1m 85, Teleplay, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/star-trek-deep-space-nine.md)

## Complete filmography (15)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *VisionQuest* (2026), series, Co-Executive Producer, Writer — coming soon, [page](https://film.one/tv/visionquest.md)
- *Pantheon* (2022), series, Writer, Executive Producer
- *Into the Badlands* (2015), series, Writer, Executive Producer
- *TURN: Washington's Spies* (2014), series, Writer, Teleplay, Co-Executive Producer, Executive Producer
- *Defiance* (2013), series, Writer, Executive Producer, Creator
- *Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome* (2012), Story, Teleplay, Executive Producer, Original Series Creator
- *Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome* (2012), series, Creator
- *Caprica* (2010), series, Writer, Co-Executive Producer
- *Virtuality* (2009), Story, Teleplay, Executive Producer
- *Virtuality* (2009), series, Story, Teleplay, Creator
- *Battlestar Galactica: Razor* (2007), Screenplay, Co-Executive Producer
- *Battlestar Galactica* (2004), series, Writer, Supervising Producer, Co-Executive Producer — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/tv/battlestar-galactica.md)
- *The Dead Zone* (2002), series, Writer, Producer, Teleplay, Supervising Producer, Co-Producer
- *Star Trek: Voyager* (1995), series, Writer, Staff Writer, Story Editor, Executive Story Editor
- *Star Trek: Deep Space Nine* (1993), series, Writer, Teleplay — Fi1m 85, [page](https://film.one/tv/star-trek-deep-space-nine.md)

## Gallery

- ![Michael Taylor](https://film.one/media/person/95934/gallery-9a41eb054870.jpg) Michael Taylor — Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/Michael_Taylor_%28screenwriter%29%2C_WonderCon%2C_2013.jpg/1280px-Michael_Taylor_%28screenwriter%29%2C_WonderCon%2C_2013.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Michael Taylor](https://film.one/media/person/95934/gallery-3b3afd7d3d6d.jpg) Michael Taylor — Image via TMDB

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