American actor and director (1934–2010) who directed Encounter at Farpoint, the feature-length opening of The Next Generation, and later episodes of that series and Deep Space Nine.
Corey Allen was an American actor, remembered as Buzz in Rebel Without a Cause, who became a busy television director. In 1987 he directed Encounter at Farpoint, the two-hour premiere of Star Trek: The Next Generation, and so staged the first appearances of Picard, his crew, the Enterprise-D and Q.
He returned to The Next Generation for Home Soil, Final Mission, The Game and Journey's End, the last of which wrote Wesley Crusher out of the series.
Allen also worked on Deep Space Nine during its first two seasons, directing Captive Pursuit, The Circle, Paradise and The Maquis, Part II. He had earlier won an Emmy for directing an episode of Hill Street Blues.