American screenwriter and producer who served as The Next Generation's first head writer and created the Borg in Q Who.
Maurice Hurley, an American screenwriter and producer, was brought onto Star Trek: The Next Generation by Gene Roddenberry and Rick Berman in 1987 and served as the series' first head writer and showrunner through its first two seasons. Among his scripts were the first-season episode 11001001, co-written with Robert Lewin, and the second-season episode Q Who, which introduced the Borg, a cybernetic menace Hurley had conceived.
Before Star Trek he wrote for series such as The Equalizer and Miami Vice. In 1993 he returned briefly to write an early draft for the first Next Generation film, Star Trek Generations, though a different treatment was chosen. Hurley died in 2015.