American writer, director and producer who co-created 12 Monkeys and served as showrunner of Star Trek: Picard in its second and third seasons.
Terry Matalas is an American television writer, director and executive producer. He began his career as an associate on Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: Enterprise, writing two stories for the latter, before writing for Terra Nova and Nikita.
With his frequent collaborator Travis Fickett he co-created the SyFy time travel drama 12 Monkeys, which he ran for four seasons, and he later served as showrunner of the fourth season of MacGyver.
Matalas became showrunner of Star Trek: Picard for its second and third seasons. The third season, which reunited the principal cast of The Next Generation aboard the USS Titan, became one of the most acclaimed seasons of the modern era and closed with The Last Generation, which he wrote and which brought the restored USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) back into service.