American writer and producer who partnered with Bradley Thompson on Deep Space Nine, Battlestar Galactica and other series, and wrote a biography of Sam Peckinpah.
David Weddle is an American television writer and producer who, with writing partner Bradley Thompson, worked on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine from 1996 until the series ended in 1999. Weddle has named Inquisition, the episode that introduced Section 31 and questioned how perfect the Federation really was, as the best Star Trek story the pair wrote.
Before television, Weddle wrote a well-regarded biography of film director Sam Peckinpah. With Thompson he went on to write for Battlestar Galactica, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Falling Skies and The Strain, and later For All Mankind.