Jeri Taylor, the Emmy-nominated scribe, producer, director and showrunner behind Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Voyager (which she co-created), has died.
She was 86. “My mother succeeded in a male-dominated industry,” her son Andrew Enberg said in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter, “but she did it without being super aggressive.
She did it with compassion and kindness. She was like a den mother to everyone.” The industry veteran died Oct. 24 of natural causes at an assisted living facility in Davis, Calif., Enberg said.
Throughout her decades-long career, Taylor spent more than ten years bringing to life episodes set within the Star Trek universe.
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