David Carson

David Carson is a director of four episodes each of and , including the latter's pilot episode, . Carson also directed , his first feature film effort. He and Jonathan Frakes are the only people to direct Star Trek television and film productions. He was interviewed by Lee Goldberg for the article "David Carson – Captain of , published in .
Carson is married to actress Kim Braden who had a guest role in the fourth season episode and in the feature film Generations. Carson enjoyed being part of the process creating the episode . When he arrived at the studio for he took part in the concept meetings for the episode due to time pressure. He also cites this episode as a favorite. () David Livingston stated about Carson, "He is a terrific director." (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages, p. 32)
Carson was interviewed by former Deep Space Nine showrunner Ira Steven Behr on his part in that series for the latter's 2018 documentary, What We Left Behind. He had previously appeared in the Syfy documentary Star Trek: Return of The Next Generation in 1994.
== Career ==
English-born David Carson relocated to Los Angeles in 1988 with his wife and their two children. Before the move though, he had worked with Marina Sirtis on an episode of Sherlock Holmes in his home country.
In addition to Star Trek, English-born Carson has directed episodes of such shows as L.A. Law (starring Corbin Bernsen and Larry Drake), (starring Lawrence Pressman and James B. Sikking), (starring Gary Graham, Eric Pierpoint and Michele Scarabelli), Northern Exposure, , One Tree Hill, Smallville, and the pilot for Manny Coto's , which starred Peter Weller, Tamara Craig Thomas and Leslie Silva, with Kenneth Mitchell). He also directed the pilot of Robert Hewitt Wolfe and Hans Beimler series The Dresden Files and two other episodes of its first season, as he did with Deep Space Nines first season. He was a producer on the series, as well. 
Carson directed Bruce McGill in the 1993 television movie Shameful Secrets and the 1998 film Letters from a Killer. He also directed part ten of the HBO miniseries From the Earth to the Moon, (2000, starring John Larroquette and Dawnn Lewis), (2002, and (2007, starring Scott Bakula).
Carson cast Andreas Katsulas for a role in the 1989 Alien Nation episode "The Game" and went on to cast Katsulas in the role of Tomalak for the Next Generation episode . For another episode of Alien Nation, Carson cast Armin Shimerman, who became the first actor to read for the role of Quark during the casting process for DS9's pilot, which Carson directed. ()
== Directing credits ==
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== Star Trek award ==
For his work on Star Trek David Carson received the following award nomination
=== Hugo Awards ===
Carson received the following Hugo Award nomination in the category "Best Dramatic Presentation"
* Hugo Award nomination for , shared with Rick Berman, Brannon Braga, and Ron D. Moore
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