--- name: "Rick Berman" canonical: "https://film.one/person/rick-berman" fi1m_id: "rick-berman" imdb_id: "nm0075834" tmdb_id: 1213783 wikidata_id: "Q502314" roles: ["Writer","Producer"] born: "25 December 1945" reviewed_on_fi1m: 6 average_fi1m_score: 70 average_as: "writer" average_over: 5 updated: "2026-09-18T12:28:33.021187+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." --- # Rick Berman ## Identity Rick Berman - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/rick-berman - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** rick-berman - **IMDb ID:** nm0075834 - **TMDB ID:** 1213783 - **Wikidata ID:** Q502314 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Berman, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q502314, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0075834/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1213783 Writer and producer. Born 25 December 1945 in New York City, New York, USA. ## Details - **Work:** Writer, Producer - **Born:** 25 December 1945, New York City, New York, USA - **Active:** 1987–2002 - **Also known as:** Richard Keith Berman - **Titles on Fi1m:** 6: 5 writing, 1 producing - **Frequently works with:** [Jonathan Frakes](https://film.one/person/jonathan-frakes.md), [LeVar Burton](https://film.one/person/levar-burton.md), [Brent Spiner](https://film.one/person/brent-spiner.md), [Michael Dorn](https://film.one/person/michael-dorn.md), [Patrick Stewart](https://film.one/person/patrick-stewart.md), [Peter Lauritson](https://film.one/person/peter-lauritson.md), [Ronald D. Moore](https://film.one/person/ronald-d-moore.md), [Brannon Braga](https://film.one/person/brannon-braga.md) - **Average Fi1m score:** 70, as writer, over 5 titles - **Fi1m score by decade:** 1980s 84 (1), 1990s 68 (4), 2000s 50 (1) - **Fi1m against the critics:** 66 to 64 across 4 titles - **Score spread:** 3 at 80+, 0 at 60–79, 2 under 60 - **Genres:** Action 3, Adventure 3, Science Fiction 3, Thriller 3, Action & Adventure 2, Drama 2 - **Screen time:** 6 hours of reviewed films - **Box office:** $331m across 3 films with figures - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Berman, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q502314, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0075834/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1213783 ## Streaming the US now - **Paramount+:** [*Star Trek: Deep Space Nine*](https://film.one/tv/star-trek-deep-space-nine.md) (85), [*Star Trek: The Next Generation*](https://film.one/tv/star-trek-the-next-generation.md) (84) - **Hulu:** [*Star Trek: First Contact*](https://film.one/film/star-trek-first-contact.md) (82), [*Star Trek: Generations*](https://film.one/film/star-trek-generations.md) (48) - **Apple TV:** [*Star Trek: Nemesis*](https://film.one/film/star-trek-nemesis.md) (50) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Rick Berman > Rick Berman ran Star Trek for nearly twenty years and gave it a house manner: calm, formal, slightly out of time. It produced the franchise's best drama and, towards the end, some of its most careful work, and careful is not always a compliment. Nobody on a Berman-era Star Trek talks the way people talked in the year it was made. Officers stand straight, speak in full sentences and address one another by rank. That was deliberate. Berman told his actors that "Star Trek is not contemporary. It's a period piece", and you can hear that instruction in almost every scene he oversaw. He came to it from documentary and industrial films and from programming jobs at Paramount, and his virtues are a producer's rather than a writer's. Gene Roddenberry picked him as supervising producer on *Star Trek: The Next Generation* in 1987; as Roddenberry stepped back, Berman rose to executive producer. He co-created *Star Trek: Deep Space Nine* (1993) with Michael Piller, *Star Trek: Voyager* (1995) with Piller and Jeri Taylor, and *Star Trek: Enterprise* (2001) with Brannon Braga, and he produced and contributed stories to all four Next Generation films between 1994 and 2002. He stayed until *Enterprise* ended in 2005 and left the following year. The best of it is the series that broke Star Trek's own rule about leaving. *Deep Space Nine* keeps its people on a station above a planet just out of occupation and makes them live with what they do, and after two slow seasons it becomes the best sustained drama the name has produced. We did not expect a Star Trek programme to make us dread the next episode, and its middle seasons did, once the station's neighbours began pressing in and those calm, upright officers had to decide what they were prepared to do. Piller's hand is on that as much as Berman's, but Berman kept several series running at once and let this one carry long stories. *Star Trek: First Contact* (1996), from a story he worked out with Braga and Ronald D. Moore, is the other high point: tense, warm, with a streak of horror, and Patrick Stewart giving it weight. A house manner protects a franchise and holds it still, and by the later years the calm had set into caution. Some writers and critics complained that *Star Trek: Nemesis* (2002) and the programmes around it had grown constrained, less willing to be strange, and we would not argue with them. He preferred not to let a war running on one series spill into another, so *Voyager* kept its distance from trouble that might have fed it. Everyone still stood straight and spoke in full sentences; fewer of them had anything urgent to say. He has said he would like to be remembered as the man who kept Roddenberry's ideals intact across four series and four films. That is a fair account of what he did, and of its limit. Start with *Deep Space Nine*, give it two seasons, and watch what the manner can hold when somebody is allowed to push against it. ## Biography Rick Berman, also credited as Richard Keith Berman, is an American television producer and screenwriter. He was born on 25 December 1945 in New York City and studied English and film production at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Berman joined the *Star Trek* franchise in 1987, working on *Star Trek: The Next Generation* before succeeding Gene Roddenberry as its head. He served as executive producer on *Star Trek: Deep Space Nine* (1993–1999), *Star Trek: Voyager* (1995–2001) and *Star Trek: Enterprise* (2001–2005), which he co-created. He produced and received story credit on the feature films *Star Trek: Generations* (1994), *Star Trek: First Contact* (1996), *Star Trek: Insurrection* (1998) and *Star Trek: Nemesis* (2002). *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (6) ### Wrote (5) — the average rests on these - *Star Trek: Nemesis* (2002), Fi1m 50, Story, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/star-trek-nemesis.md) - *Star Trek: First Contact* (1996), Fi1m 82, Story, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/star-trek-first-contact.md) - *Star Trek: Generations* (1994), Fi1m 48, Story, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/star-trek-generations.md) - *Star Trek: Deep Space Nine* (1993), Fi1m 85, Producer, Story, Creator — [page](https://film.one/tv/star-trek-deep-space-nine.md) - *Star Trek: The Next Generation* (1987), Fi1m 84, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/star-trek-the-next-generation.md) ### Produced (1) - *Star Trek: Insurrection* (1998), Fi1m 58, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/star-trek-insurrection.md) ## Complete filmography (20) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *The Center Seat II: 60 Years of Star Trek* (2026), series, Actor - *Star Trek: The Next Generation - All Good Things...* (2014), Executive Producer - *Star Trek: Enterprise - Storm Front* (2014), Executive Producer - *Star Trek: Enterprise - In a Mirror, Darkly* (2014), Executive Producer - *Star Trek: The Next Generation - Unification* (2013), Story, Executive Producer - *Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Best of Both Worlds* (2013), Executive Producer - *Star Trek: Enterprise - Shockwave* (2013), Writer, Executive Producer - *Star Trek: Nemesis* (2002), Story, Producer — Fi1m 50, [page](https://film.one/film/star-trek-nemesis.md) - *Star Trek: Enterprise* (2001), series, Producer, Writer, Story, Creator - *Star Trek: Voyager - Scorpion* (2000), Executive Producer - *Star Trek: Voyager - Future's End* (2000), Creator, Executive Producer - *Star Trek: Insurrection* (1998), Producer — Fi1m 58, [page](https://film.one/film/star-trek-insurrection.md) - *Star Trek: First Contact* (1996), Producer, Story — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/star-trek-first-contact.md) - *Star Trek: Voyager - Basics* (1996), Executive Producer - *Star Trek: Voyager* (1995), series, Writer, Story, Executive Producer, Creator - *Star Trek: Generations* (1994), Story, Producer — Fi1m 48, [page](https://film.one/film/star-trek-generations.md) - *Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Emissary* (1993), Story - *Star Trek: Deep Space Nine* (1993), series, Producer, Story, Creator — Fi1m 85, [page](https://film.one/tv/star-trek-deep-space-nine.md) - *Star Trek: The Next Generation* (1987), series, Writer, Executive Producer — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/star-trek-the-next-generation.md) - *Dominion War*, series, Creator --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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