American writer and producer who ran The Next Generation's final season and co-created Star Trek: Voyager.
Jeri Taylor, an American television writer and producer, came to Star Trek: The Next Generation at the start of its fourth season as a supervising producer, having previously written for series such as Little House on the Prairie and produced and directed on Quincy, M.E. Her first script for the series was the co-written episode Suddenly Human.
She rose to co-executive producer alongside Rick Berman and Michael Piller and served as executive producer and showrunner for the seventh and final season. She also wrote the teleplay for the first part of Unification, which brought Spock to the series.
Taylor then co-created Star Trek: Voyager with Berman and Piller, co-wrote its pilot Caretaker and led the series through its early seasons. She also wrote the Voyager novels Mosaic and Pathways. She died in 2024.