American television director who was a first assistant director on The Next Generation before directing four of its episodes, and later two comic Deep Space Nine episodes.
Chip Chalmers is an American director who worked on the early seasons of Star Trek: The Next Generation as a first assistant director and was then given the chance to direct.
His Next Generation episodes are Captain's Holiday, which sends Picard to Risa and introduces Vash, The Loss, The Wounded, which introduced the Cardassians, and Ethics.
Years later he came back to the franchise for the sixth and seventh seasons of Deep Space Nine, directing The Magnificent Ferengi and the baseball episode Take Me Out to the Holosuite. His other directing work includes many episodes of Melrose Place and Beverly Hills, 90210.