American screenwriter who sold The Offspring as an unsolicited script and went on to write over thirty episodes of The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine.
René Echevarria, an American screenwriter and producer, made his first sale with The Offspring, an unsolicited script in which Data builds an android daughter, Lal. He was then hired to redraft Transfigurations and joined the Next Generation staff, contributing episodes such as I, Borg and Ship in a Bottle.
He moved on to Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, where he co-wrote the Hugo-nominated Trials and Tribble-ations with Ronald D. Moore. After Star Trek he co-created The 4400 and Carnival Row and worked on Dark Angel, Medium, Castle and Terra Nova.