Michael Piller

He graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a bachelor's degree in radio, television and motion pictures in 1970.

His wife, Sandra Pillar, had a role as a reporter in the "Simon & Simon" (1981) episode, "Simon & Simon: Simon Without Simon: Part 1 (#4.16)" (1985), and a role as a saleslady in the "Simon & Simon" (1981) episode, "Simon & Simon: D-I-V-O-R-C-E (#5.21)" (1986).

Piller is a HUGE baseball fan. He has over two hundred thousand baseball cards. You can see his baseball interest in "Captain Sisko" on "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" (1993).

On the week of Piller's death, Canadian sci-fi station Space aired a marathon of "Star Trek: Voyager" (1995) and "Star Trek: The Next Generation" (1987) episodes he had written.

Cast Anthony Michael Hall in "The Dead Zone" (2002) after seeing Hall's performance in Pirates of Silicon Valley (1999) (TV).