American television director (1951–2009), later a mainstay of The X-Files and Supernatural, who directed the first-season Next Generation episode When the Bough Breaks.
Kim Manners was an American director and producer who began on series such as Charlie's Angels and 21 Jump Street.
His only Star Trek episode is When the Bough Breaks from the first season of The Next Generation, in which the sterile Aldeans take Wesley Crusher and other children from the Enterprise to rebuild their society.
Manners became best known for his work on The X-Files, where he directed more episodes than anyone else and served as a producer, and afterwards on Supernatural, where he was an executive producer and its principal director until his death in 2009.