American screenwriter and producer who wrote acclaimed episodes of The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine, including Duet and The Inner Light.
Peter Allan Fields was an American screenwriter and producer whose career stretched back to series such as The Six Million Dollar Man. He came to Star Trek on The Next Generation, where his credits include Half a Life and the celebrated The Inner Light, and then joined the founding staff of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as a producer.
On Deep Space Nine he wrote Duet, an early showcase for Kira Nerys widely counted among the series' best, and he developed the story for In the Pale Moonlight. Fields died in 2019 at the age of 84.