Paul Lynch

Director — The Next Generation

British-born Canadian director who made five episodes of The Next Generation, beginning with The Naked Now, and five first-season episodes of Deep Space Nine.

Paul Lynch is a British-born Canadian director, known in the cinema for the horror film Prom Night, who worked on two Star Trek series. He directed the second story of The Next Generation, The Naked Now, and followed it in the first two seasons with 11001001 and Unnatural Selection.
He came back in the fifth season for A Matter of Time and The First Duty, the episode set at Starfleet Academy in which Wesley Crusher is caught up in the cover-up of a fatal flight accident.
Lynch was then one of the main directors of the opening season of Deep Space Nine, handling A Man Alone, Babel, Q-Less, The Passenger and Battle Lines.