Nick Sagan

Nicholas "Nick" Sagan in Boston, Massachusetts, is the son of science fiction author and astronomer Carl Sagan. He dropped out of high school to study film at , from which he graduated summa cum laude. In 1977, his voice was sent into space on the Voyager spacecraft along with other recorded messages, music, photographs and sounds of Earth; the committee which selected the material for the record had been chaired by his father. His greeting, "Hello from the children of the planet Earth," is featured in the movie (1984) and episode "Little Green Men" (1994).
As a freelance writer, Sagan pitched a number of ideas to the Star Trek writing staff in the early 1990s, resulting in an invitation to write for during the seventh season. In an interview for , Sagan expressed the hope that he would be invited to write for one or more of the spin-off series; this hope came to fruition in , when he was brought onto the writing staff for , serving as Story Editor for the show's fifth season.
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