American composer, born in 1954, who scored more than sixty episodes of Deep Space Nine, Voyager and Enterprise between 1994 and 2003.
David Bell is an American composer for television, born in 1954 and trained at Miami University and the Eastman School of Music. Before Star Trek he wrote the music for many episodes of Murder, She Wrote and In the Heat of the Night.
He joined the group of regular Star Trek composers in 1994 and went on to score two dozen episodes of Deep Space Nine, among them Second Skin, In the Pale Moonlight and Who Mourns for Morn?
His largest body of work was for Voyager, with more than thirty episodes including Faces, Distant Origin and Bride of Chaotica! He also scored several early episodes of Enterprise, such as Terra Nova, Dear Doctor and Minefield, and shared an ASCAP award for that series.