Michael DeMeritt Michael W . DeMeritt is an assistant director who worked on and . He joined the staff of " Voyager " as second second Assistant Director during its first season , having previously worked in that position for three years ( 1992 – 1995 ) on the drama series " L . A . Law " ( starring Corbin Bernsen and Larry Drake ) . He became the Key Second Assistant Director on " Voyager " during its fourth season and ultimately rose to First Assistant Director of " Voyager " before the series ended in . DeMeritt moved on to " Enterprise " , where he rotated between Key Second Assistant Director and First Assistant Director with Jerry Fleck . After Fleck ' s death in DeMeritt continued working as the show ' s First Assistant Director until its cancellation in . A graduate of Michigan State University , DeMeritt was selected for the Director ' s Guild of America ' s ( DGA ) Producer Training Program in the early 1990s . As a DGA trainee , DeMeritt worked on such projects as the hit television series " The Wonder Years " ( starring Olivia d ' Abo ) and " Quantum Leap " ( starring Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell ) , the 1991 comedy " All I Want for Christmas " ( starring Andrea Martin and featuring art direction - set decoration by Herman Zimmerman , Randy McIlvain , and John M . Dwyer ) , the 1992 films " Newsies " ( starring Marc Lawrence and Kevin Tighe , with photography by Andrew Laszlo ) and " Jennifer Eight " ( featuring Kevin Conway and Bob Gunton ) and the 1992 HBO drama " Citizen Cohn " ( featuring Daniel Hugh Kelly , Jeffrey Nordling , and Fritz Weaver , with art direction by Gary Kosko ) . After " Enterprise " , DeMeritt became a Second Assistant Director on the CBS series " Las Vegas " , starring Nikki Cox in 2006 . He then moved on to another CBS series , " Close to Home " on which he worked between 2006 and 2007 . He continued his association with CBS as Second Assistant Director of the vampire series " Moonlight " ( 2007 - 2008 ) , the drama series " Californication " ( 2007 ) and worked then as First Assistant Director on the television pilot " Boldly Going Nowhere " ( 2009 , with Melissa Vinicor and Michael T . McNerney ) . More recently he served as line producer on Geneviere Anderson ' s cooking show " Gen ' s Guiltless Gourmet " ( 2009 ) and as First and Second Assistant Director on the drama series " Make It or Break It " ( 2009 - 2010 , with Venita Ozols ) . In addition to his work as an assistant director , DeMeritt is also a writer and a poet . In 1995 , he wrote a comic book story based on an unused outline for for TNG Special 3 called " Pandora ' s Prodigy " . During his time on " Voyager " and " Enterprise " , he would write humorous poems and recite them to the cast as well as the hair and makeup crews . Many of the poems were specifically about " Star Trek " , with titles such as " Changing Captains " ( about Kate Mulgrew being cast as Kathryn Janeway ) , " Jeri Ryan " ( for the actress of the same name ) , " Scott " ( for actor Scott Bakula ) , and " Shran Rap . " Jeri Ryan convinced DeMeritt to keep some of his poetry rather than discard them as he had been doing , and in 2006 , he published a book of his work called " Poetry and Prose from the Director ' s Ass " . Two " Star Trek " characters have been named after DeMeritt : there was an Ensign Michael DeMerrit aboard , and an M . DeMeritt aboard .