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Posted: 14:26:44 on November 14 2002
By: Steve Krutzler
Dept: General Genre/SciFi

You may by now have heard of the unfortunate death of ST:TNG, ST:DS9 and ST:VOY writer Hilary Bader from cancer last week. Today former TNG, DS9 and VOY executive producer Michael Piller has composed a touching tribute to the writer who is credited with eight classic STAR TREK scripts.

"Hilary was one of those writers who walked into the Star Trek: The Next Generation offices without literally any professional credits, as I recall," Piller wrote in the letter published today at the official STAR TREK web site. "But she had gone to the trouble of writing a spec script which showed promise and it got her in the door and she never left. Over the years she would write for all the Star Trek shows and was in to pitch The Dead Zone not long ago, too."

"There was this resilience in her eyes, behind spectacles, 'you can't knock me down with your objections' kind of look — a flash of excitement when the next new idea sprung from her brain — the glasses almost seemed to shine with her internal sun," Piller goes on to say.

Several of Bader's notable TREK scripts were DS9's "Rules of Acquisition" and VOY's "Eye of the Neelde," as well as the TNG episodes "The Loss," "Dark Page" and "Hero Worship." Piller says the latter is one of his personal favorites:

"My favorite Bader TNG story was one about a boy who wanted to squeeze all the hurt and pain out of his soul aspiring to live an Android existence like Data (who of course yearned to feel the emotions of humans). "Hero Worship" touched a lot of people who could understand how that kid felt because we've all felt that way from time to time."

Piller says Bader's loss is particularly difficult for him, as the producer who helped start her career through the open script submission policy he instituted at TNG.

"[...] each writer you guide as a producer becomes part of your extended family and I've lost a member of the family this week" he writes. "The open spec script policy that introduced Hilary to us has ended now at Paramount due to new legal restrictions. Had it not been in existence then, I may never have met her, those eight Star Trek stories would never have been written, her career may have taken an entirely different turn. I can't help thinking today what a loss it would have been for me and for our industry if the door to Hilary Bader had never been opened."

You may read more of Piller's thoughts here.

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