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 (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 (starring Olivia d'Abo) and (starring Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell), (1991, starring Andrea Martin and featuring art direction-set decoration by Herman Zimmerman, Randy McIlvain, and John M. Dwyer), (1992, starring Marc Lawrence and Kevin Tighe, with photography by Andrew Laszlo) (1992, featuring Kevin Conway and Bob Gunton) and (1992, featuring Daniel Hugh Kelly, Jeffrey Nordling, and Fritz Weaver, with art direction by Gary Kosko).
After Enterprise, DeMeritt became a Second Assistant Director on NBC's , starring Nikki Cox in 2006. He then moved on to CBS' on which he worked between 2006 and 2007. He continued his association with CBS as Second Assistant Director of (2007-2008), (2007) and worked then as First Assistant Director on the television pilot Boldly Going Nowhere (2009, with Melissa Vinicor and Michael T. McNerney).
He also served as line producer on Geneviere Anderson's cooking show Gen's Guiltless Gourmet (2009) and as First and Second Assistant Director on (2009-2010, with Venita Ozols-Graham).
In addition to his work as an assistant director, DeMeritt is also a writer and a poet. In 1995, he wrote a 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", "Scott", 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 aboard , and an M. DeMeritt aboard .
== Star Trek credits ==
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== External links ==
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