Iranian-born American television director (1930–2011), one of the most prolific in the medium, who directed several Deep Space Nine episodes including Civil Defense and Paradise Lost.
Reza Badiyi was an Iranian-born director who worked in American television for more than four decades and is often cited as having directed more hours of episodic television than almost anyone else. He also designed celebrated title sequences, including that of Hawaii Five-O.
For Star Trek: Deep Space Nine he directed Civil Defense, in which an old Cardassian security programme locks down the station, and Past Tense, Part I, which sends Sisko, Bashir and Dax to the San Francisco of 2024.
He returned in the fourth season for Paradise Lost, the conclusion of the story about Admiral Leyton's attempted coup on Earth. Badiyi died in 2011.