Michael Piller

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Michael Piller (May 30, 1948 – November 1, 2005) was an American television scriptwriter and producer best known for his contributions to the Star Trek franchise.

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Early life and career

Piller was born to a Jewish family in Port Chester, New York. With parents who were both involved in writing; Gene Piller, his father, was a Hollywood screenwriter and his mother, Ruth Roberts, was a songwriter. He planned to be a scriptwriter from an early age, but a college lecturer discouraged him, and Piller started out in television working as an Emmy Award-winning journalist for CBS News in New York, WBTV in Charlotte, North Carolina, and WBBM-TV in Chicago, Illinois. However, he then moved to Los Angeles, California and the entertainment side of television in the late 1970s, working as a censor and then a programming executive for CBS. While at the network, he became director of dramas based on fact and program practices. He began writing scripts for television, and after selling a script to Cagney & Lacey and another to Simon & Simon, he was offered a staff writing position on Simon & Simon, where he stayed for three years, becoming a producer.

Piller attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was a member of the Pi Lambda Phi fraternity. He married Sandra in 1981; they had three children.

In 1987, together with Van Gordon Sauter, he developed a reality/medical series for MGM/UA Television called The Doctor's Office. He later teamed with him again in the following year on Hotline, a game-show designed to have interactive elements with the home audience.

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