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David E. Waters

David E. Waters of Greensboro, North Carolina, is the Co-Key Second Assistant Director on . Waters previously worked with Abrams and many other members of the Star Trek crew as 2nd Second Assistant Director and Second Assistant Director of Additional Photography on Paramount Pictures' (2006). 
Prior to becoming an assistant director, Waters was a production assistant on several major studio films. His production assistant credits include Species II (featuring James Cromwell), I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (featuring Bill Cobbs and Jeffrey Combs), (1999, starring Susan Sarandon, featuring John Carroll Lynch, Stephanie Niznik and Faran Tahir), The Insider (starring Bruce McGill and Christopher Plummer), and Hollow Man (featuring Jimmie F. Skaggs).
Star Trek was the third film starring Chris Pine that Waters worked on as an assistant director, after 2004's Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement and 2006's Just My Luck. Waters' other assistant director film credits include Miss Congeniality (starring William Shatner), Cradle 2 the Grave (featuring Gabrielle Union), Keeping Up with the Steins, (2007), (2007, starring Brad Dourif, Clint Howard, and Malcolm McDowell), and (2007, featuring Andy Dick). Star Trek 2nd Unit Unit Production Manager Tommy Harper was an assistant director on all of these films, as well.
Waters also assisted in the direction of films such as (2002, starring Kathy Bates, featuring Len Cariou and Matt Winston), (2004, featuring Frank Collison, Jerry Hardin, Jeff Kober, Malcolm McDowell, and Peter Mensah), Ice Princess (starring Kim Cattrall), and Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (starring Corbin Bernsen). For television, Waters was hired on a daily basis as 2nd Second Assistant Director of and was 2nd Second Assistant Director for the pilot episode of CBS' , starring Enrique Murciano.
Waters married actress Erica Frene on 20 April 2008. 
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David Ellison

David Ellison is an actor and film producer who worked as Executive Producer on . Ellison founded the production company Skydance Productions in 2006 and collaborated with Paramount Pictures on several feature films. Ellison is also Executive Producer on .
Ellison is the son of billionaire software mogul . He started acting in 2005 when he played a student in the comedy The Chumscrubber. The same year he wrote, directed, produced and starred in the short thriller When All Else Fails. Further acting work includes the drama Flyboys (2006), the television thriller Blank Slate (2008, with Clancy Brown and Richard Cox), the comedy Little Fish, Strange Pond (2009, with Don McManus and Paul Lacovara), (2010, with Jeri Ryan and Mark Sheppard), and (2010, with Rico E. Anderson).
After he produced the shorts films The Sound of Football (2004) and Somebody Else (2005), Ellison worked as executive producer for Skydance Productions on (2010), (2011, with Simon Pegg), (2012, with Adam Scott and Brett Cullen), (2012, with Dwayne Johnson), (2012), and (2013, starring Chris Pine, with David Paymer). He also worked as producer on (2012, with Nicole Forester).
Later projects as producer include (2015), (2015), (2016), (2014, with Mark Moses) and Grace and Frankie (2015), (2016), Africa, and (2019), and (2022)
Forbes magazine reported on 3 Apr 2024 that Ellison's company Skydance Productions was in talks to buy a controlling stake in Paramount Global, the company that produces all current Star Trek series and movies excepting Prodigy. 
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David Erskine

David Erskine is the actor who appeared as the Bandi shopkeeper in the first season episode .
Other acting work includes an episode of (1987, starring Linda Hamilton and Ron Perlman, with Cliff DeYoung, and Jessie Lawrence Ferguson) and (1990, with Patrick Kilpatrick, Abdul Salaam El Razzac, Larry A. Hankin, and Armin Shimerman).
Since 2005, Erskine has worked as producer on several television specials such as the Chabad Telethon (2005-2007) and the Armenia Fund Telethon (2007-2012).
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David Figlioli

David Figlioli is the actor who portrayed the Klingon weapons officer in the second season episode .
Figlioli studied theater at Wayne State University in Detroit and has performed in several stage plays, for which he received a number awards, including The Korbin Patrick Award and the Best Actor Award. He started his acting career with appearances in the short films Dating Rosie (1999), How I Saved the World (2001), and The American Shame (2001). He then appeared in several television series, including episodes of The Tick (2001, with Liz Vassey and ), (2002, with Katy Boyer, Cyril O'Reilly, and George D. Wallace), (2002, with René Auberjonois, David Doty, and Michael Rothhaar), (2003, starring Miguel Ferrer, with Susan Gibney), and (2003, starring Neal McDonough, with Gina Hecht and Cullen Douglas).
Figlioli appeared in (2003, with Larry A. Hankin), (2005, with Jeffrey Combs, Robert Budaska, and Amina Islam), the television comedy Special Unit (2006, with Mike Timoney), (2006, with Sharon Lawrence), and the short comedy You Owe Us. (2006).
Other television performances include (2003, starring Ted Levine, with Stanley Kamel), (2004, with Scott Grimes, Patrick Fischler, Paul Dooley, Michelle C. Bonilla, and Elliot Durant III), (2003 and 2004, alongside Annie Wersching and Sam Witwer in the previous one and Leland Crooke, Dennis Christopher, and Mark Colson in the latter one), (2005, with Mel Winkler, Vince Deadrick, and Robert Mammana),, (2003 and 2005, with Christopher Darga in the previous episode and Scott Allen Rinker and Jennifer Tung in the latter one, where he was also directed by LeVar Burton), and (2006, with Nikki Cox, Mark Harelik, and Christopher McDonald).
Figlioli later performed in (2007, with Spencer Garrett, Gregory Itzin, Theo Kypri, Neal McDonough, Brian McNamara, Michael Papajohn, and Shay Astar), (2008, starring Jeffrey Nordling), and (2008).
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David Froman

David Froman was the veteran television actor and drama instructor who played K'Nera in the first season episode . He is perhaps best known for his recurring role as Lt. Bob Brooks on from 1986 through 1994.
Froman was born in Miami, Oklahoma. He was a full-time speech and theater faculty member at Northeastern Oklahoma A&M College from 1961 through 1969. Between 1980 and 1984, he appeared on , and made his film debut in (1982, with guest star William Sadler). Froman's only other feature film credit was (1987, featuring Ronny Cox, David L. Lander, and Irene Tsu).
In 1986, Froman guest-starred on an episode of , which starred William Shatner and James Darren. He again worked with James Darren the following year when Darren directed him in a two-parter of . Lance LeGault was a regular on this series, while s Ethan Phillips appeared in Froman's first episode.
Other television shows Froman appeared on include (1985, directed by Winrich Kolbe, starring Kate Jackson, with David Paymer), (starring James B. Sikking and Barbara Bosson), (featuring Madge Sinclair), (directed by Robert Scheerer, starring Chad Allen), (with Mary Carver and Michael Forest), (with director Corey Allen, Larry Drake, Richard Lineback, and Richard Lynch), (with Kirstie Alley, Charles Esten, Kelsey Grammer, and Paul Willson), and (with Christopher Carroll and Andreas Katsulas). He also appeared in (1986, with Jack Blessing and Anne Haney).
Froman began appearing on Matlock in 1986, beginning with the show's third episode, "The Stripper." This episode also guest-starred Anne Haney. He acted in fifty-six of the show's 195 episodes, the last of which was 1994's "The Dare" directed by Leo Penn. By this time, Daniel Roebuck had become a regular on the series.
After Matlock ended its run in 1994, Froman returned to Miami, Oklahoma, and rejoined the faculty at A&M College, where he remained as a full-time instructor until 2002. He also worked with the Miami Little Theatre for many years. In August 2007, he continued working at A&M College as a part-time drama instructor, where he remained until his death from cancer on 8 February 2010. He was 71 years old. (McKinney, Roger. "Television actor David Froman dies at 71." , 9 February 2010)
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David G. Trotti

David Giroux Trotti is an assistant director who worked as DGA Trainee on and , as second assistant director on TNG and , and as first assistant director on . Trotti has been married to actress and stand-in Amy Kate Connolly and is the son in law of hair stylist Laura Connolly. Together they appeared as civilian ceremony attendees in the Enterprise fourth season episode . Trotti previously appeared as a bystander in the Voyager fifth season episode , though not intentional.
He was also a Second Assistant Director for (1990, starring Michael Berryman and Bert Remsen, the crime drama Roots of Evil (1992), and the action film Victor One (1994). Prior to this he worked as DGA Trainee on (1992). Trotti was also brought in to serve as Second Assistant Director for Robert Duncan McNeill's short film 9mm of Love in 2000, starring Ethan Phillips and Liz Vassey.
Further credits as first and second assistant director include Michael Dorn's television drama Through the Fire (2002, with Marina Sirtis), (2005), (2006, with Seymour Cassel), and Justice (2006-2007), the short comedy Falling (2007, with F.J. Rio, editor Todd Slayton, and makeup artist James MacKinnon), the comedy Women on Top (2007, with Jeffrey Byron, Kristen Ariza, and Merritt Yohnka), and (2007-08), Factory (2008), and Chuck (2008-2011).
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David Gerrold memo - No Tribbles At All - November 2, 1986 (podcast)

== Summary ==
:As was in its earliest days of development, one writer pitched the idea to return to a formula – and a character descendant – that had worked well for TOS. How would audiences in the '80s react to "Albania Jones"? What if he was played by Robin Williams? David Gerrold suggested one of their stronger comedy writers take a crack at it... himself!
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David Gerrold memo - To Seek Out New Life - October 1986 (podcast)

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:A new Star Trek in 1986 meant new concepts about science and the intersection of technology and biology. Welcoming back science consultant Andre Bormanis, we examine an early TNG memo from David Gerrold that speculates about what kind of Humanity we'll encounter in the future.
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David Howe

David R. Howe is a technical lighting director at Industrial Light & Magic who worked on 's . He previously worked with ILM as a digital effects artist on Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones in 2002.
Howe began his professional visual effects career with Northwest Imaging & FX in the late 1990s, working on Stargate SG-1, Poltergeist: The Legacy, and The Outer Limits. His early film credits include (1997, starring Martin Sheen, with Melinda Clarke) and Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001; featuring the voices of Jean Simmons and Dwight Schultz).
Howe also worked on (2002) and (2003), as an employee of Weta Digital. Both of these films featuring John Rhys-Davies and Karl Urban (Brad Dourif was in The Two Towers but only appears in the extended cut of Return of the King).
Howe spent four years as a technical director at Sony Pictures Imageworks (SPI). Among the films he worked on during his time at SPI were (2004, starring Kirsten Dunst), (2004, written by John Logan and featuring Brent Spiner), (2007, featuring Gabrielle Union) and (2008).
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David Huynh

David Huynh is an actor who played Zac Nguyen in the second season episode .
Hailing from Vancouver, Huynh made his screen acting debut at the age of fifteen in the Canadian children's series The Adventures of Shirley Holmes. He later made guest appearances in episodes of series like (with Patti Yasutake and Keone Young), (2003, starring Scott Grimes, with Ivar Brogger), (starring Enrique Murciano, with Lauren Tom and Jeremy Roberts), and NCIS: Los Angeles (with Jeff Kober).
He starred in (2007, with Tzi Ma, Jeff Imada, and Richard Chiu) for which he received a Special Jury Prize Award at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival for Outstanding Newcomer and Best Emerging Actor. He also frequently appeared in the films of Chinese-American independent director Byron Q., including Bang Bang (2011), and Las Vegas Story (2015).
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David Jean Thomas

David Jean Thomas is an actor who appeared in . He previously worked with Star Trek director and producer J.J. Abrams on , in the fifth season episode, "Prophet Five" (along with Art Chudabala and Leon Russom).
Thomas has been acting steadily since the early 1990s, appearing in such films as (1993, co-starring Robert Hooks, Tommy "Tiny" Lister, Jr., Bob Minor and Salli Elise Richardson), (1998, with Ellen Geer, Richard Riehle and Daniel Zacapa), (1999, with David Andrews, Tim de Zarn, Zach Grenier, and Matt Winston), (2000, starring Joan Collins), (2000, starring Kirsten Dunst), (2000, starring Eddie Murphy, with Nikki Cox, Charles Napier and Andrea Robinson), Backflash (starring Colm Meaney, Michael J. Pollard and Mike Starr), Hellborn (with Tommy "Tiny" Lister, Jr. and Tracy Scoggins), and Ghost Rock (with Adrienne Barbeau and Craig Wasson). Some of Thomas' other film credits are (2009, with Stephen Root and Justin Rodgers Hall) and (2009, starring his Star Trek co-star Rachel Nichols).
His made-for-television movies have included (1997, with Bob Gunton) and (2005, with Jeffrey Combs). In addition, Thomas starred in and associate produced the pilot movie for The Privateers. Working with Thomas on this project were his Star Trek co-star Karl Urban and star Walter Koenig.
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David Kagen

David Kagen is an actor who played the Tandaran Major Klev in the first season episode . He filmed his scenes for this episode between Wednesday and Friday , on Tuesday , and on Wednesday on Paramount Stage 8, 9, and 18. His costume from this episode was later sold off on the It's A Wrap! sale and auction on eBay. 
Kagen was born in Somers Point, New Jersey and has worked as an acting teacher beside his on-screen career. He has taught actors such as Ted Danson, Alec Baldwin, Michelle Forbes, and Ally Walker and has coached alongside fellow Star Trek actors Andrew Borba, Frank Collison, Jordan Lund, Brad Greenquist, and Brett Rickaby for over thirty years in David Kagen's School of Acting.
Kagen has appeared in several television series, including guest appearances in (1985, with James B. Sikking, Barbara Bosson, and Jimmie F. Skaggs), (1986, starring Dwight Schultz), (1994, with Dina Meyer, Lawrence Monoson, and Peggy Roeder), (1997, with regular Dennis Christopher), (2000, with Tony Amendola and Tommy Hinkley), (2003, starring Enrique Murciano and with guest star Barbara J. Tarbuck), and (2005, starring Paul Guilfoyle and Wallace Langham, with Art Chudabala and Tess Lina).
Kagen has also appeared in films such as (1986, with Renée Jones), (1990, starring Mary Crosby), Hologram Man (1995, starring Michael Nouri), and the drama Shackles (2005, with Dan Desmond, Sandra Nelson, and Deborah Strang).
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David L. Crowley

David L. Crowley is an English actor who appeared as a worker in the seventh season episode .
Crowley had a recurring role as Lou Welch in the first two seasons of Babylon 5, starring Claudia Christian, Andreas Katsulas, Bill Mumy and Mary Kay Adams, with Robert Rusler, Jane Carr, Art Chudabala, Jeffrey Combs, Mark Rolston, Carel Struycken, Michael Ansara, Keith Szarabajka, Beth Toussaint, and Paul Winfield.
He has also co-starred with actor William Shatner on (also starring James Darren and Richard Herd) in 1984, and an episode of (with Stan Ivar and Bill Smitrovich). Other television series on which he appeared include (starring James B. Sikking, Barbara Bosson, and Megan Gallagher), (with Robert Foxworth, Brett Cullen, and John McLiam), (starring Richard Dean Anderson, with Bruce McGill), (starring Bill Smitrovich, with James Cromwell, Jordan Lund and David Selburg), (with Ray Walston and Roy Brocksmith), (co-starring Gordon Clapp, Sharon Lawrence, Janet MacLachlan, and Diane Salinger), (with Michael Reilly Burke and Concetta Tomei), (opposite actors John Billingsley, Bill Cobbs, and Tucker Smallwood), (starring Roger Aaron Brown), (with Kieran Mulroney and Raphael Sbarge), and The Agency (with Daniel Benzali, David Clennon, and Tim Kelleher).
On film, he appeared in (1982, featuring John McLiam) and (1988, with Laurence Luckinbill). He also had roles in (1993, with Michael Wiseman and Christine Harnos) and (1993, with Lea Thompson and Diedrich Bader).
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David LeBell

David LeBell is a stuntman and stunt actor who performed stunts as a Klingon soldier in the fourth season episode . He was uncredited for his performance. His costume, which was previously used by stuntman Ben Scott and actor Dan Desmond in different episodes, was sold off on It's A Wrap! sale and auction on eBay and his name was misspelled as David LaBell. 
LeBell is the stepson of Midge LeBell and the son of the famous stuntman and wrestler Gene LeBell who played like his son also a Klingon but in a episode in 1996. He has doubled for stars such as David Anthony Higgins and Drew Carey.
LeBell has performed in films such as (1976), (1982), (1985, with David Graf, Arthur Batanides, and stunts by Dan Barringer, Hubie Kerns, Jr., Tom Morga, Bernie Pock, Spiro Razatos, and Brian J. Williams), (1986), (1987, with Todd Feder and stunts by Sandy Berumen-Justus, Janet Brady, Doc Charbonneau, Monty Cox, Randy Hall, Kim Robert Koscki, Gene LeBell, Bernie Pock, Scott Wilder, and Spice Williams), (1990, with Peter Weller), Mobsters (1991, with Christian Slater), (1993, with Patrick Stewart, Chase Masterson, Brian George, Clive Revill, Clement von Franckenstein, and stunts by Dan Barringer, Erik Cord, Kiante Elam, Scott Leva, and Clint Lilley), (1993), (1995), (1997), (1998), Bandits (2001), (2004), and (2007, with Tony Plana and stunts by John Cade and Ken Clark).
He has also performed in television series such as (starring Kirstie Alley and Kelsey Grammer), , , The Drew Carey Show, (2000, with John Harnagel and Vincent Schiavelli), (2000 and 2002, with David Paul Needles), and (2006, starring Timothy Olyphant, with Jim Beaver, Brad Dourif, Leon Rippy, Titus Welliver, Larry Cedar, Allan Graf, and Tim de Zarn).
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David Lee Smith

David Lee Smith is the actor who played Zahir in the third season episode .
During his early television career, Smith worked primarily on daytime soap operas, having made recurring appearances on As the World Turns, All My Children, and One Life to Live. Smith would go on to have a recurring role on (working with the likes of David L. Lander and Robin Sachs), NBC's (five episodes, including one with David Huddleston and one with Kenneth Mars), and NBC's (with Tim Kelleher, Tim Ransom, and Michael Reilly Burke). He has also made single appearances on shows such as , (starring Wendie Malick), , (1998, with James Ingersoll, Sara Mornell, and James Parks; 2001, with Sam Hennings, Billy Mayo, and Jennifer Savidge), and (2002, starring Paul Guilfoyle and Wallace Langham, with Wayne Péré and Wade Andrew Williams and 2004 with Mark Lentry, Wallace Langham and Dan Warner). Both also featured Victor Bevine.
In addition to his television work, Smith has been seen in such films as (1999, featuring David Andrews, Tim de Zarn, Zach Grenier, Michael Shamus Wiles, and Matt Winston), (2002, with David Andrews),Mysterious Skin (2004, with Richard Riehle), and (2007, with guest actress Ashley Judd and Fionnula Flanagan).
In 2007, Smith had a role in from Fight Club director . Smith's Fight Club co-stars (and fellow Trek actors) Zach Grenier and Matt Winston also appear, with June Diane Raphael, John Carroll Lynch, J. Patrick McCormack, and Thomas Kopache. 
In December 2007, Smith starred in Jerome Bixby's , co-starring John Billingsley, Richard Riehle, and Tony Todd.
From 2003 to 2010, Smith had a recurring role as IAB Sergeant Rick Stetler on CBS' . During his time on this series, Smith appeared with such Trek veterans as Ed Begley, Jr., Alan Dale, Galyn Görg, Dina Meyer, Rudolf Martin, Kevin McCorkle, Sterling Macer, Jr., and Holmes R. Osborne.
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David Livingston (Vice Admiral)

David Livingston was a Starfleet flag officer who lived during the mid-24th century.
In 2353, he was listed as a Starfleet Operational Support Services officer on a directory placard at Starbase 32, Maxia sector. His office was located in room #24879. (, directory)
In 2363, Vice Admiral Livingston was head of Fleet Administration in the Yoyodyne Division at 40 Eridani A Starfleet Construction Yards during the construction of the . (, ) Later the same year, the admiral was one of the Starfleet Command officers at the Utopia Planitia Ship Yards whose name later appeared on the 2368 updated dedication plaque for the . (, )
In 2367, he was again with Fleet Administration with San Francisco Fleet Yards' Yoyodyne Propulsion Systems at the time of the construction of the . (, )
In 2370, he was one of the Starfleet Command officers at Antares Ship Yards during the construction of the . (, )
In 2371, he was one of the Starfleet Command officers at Earth Station McKinley during the construction of the . (, )
In 2375, he was one of the Starfleet Command officers at Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards during the construction of the (, )
In an unknown, alternate future timeframe, he was listed as a Starfleet Command officer on the dedication plaque of the . (, )
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