American television director who directed 25 Next Generation episodes, including both parts of The Best of Both Worlds, and lent his name to the Bolians.
Cliff Bole, an American television director, began his Star Trek work with the first-season Next Generation episode Lonely Among Us and went on to direct 24 more episodes of the series, among them both parts of The Best of Both Worlds. He also directed seven episodes of Deep Space Nine and ten of Voyager, and the blue-skinned Bolians were named in his honor.
Before Star Trek he directed episodes of The Six Million Dollar Man, Charlie's Angels and V, and he later worked on The X-Files. He died in 2014.