Melinda M. Snodgrass

Melinda M. Snodgrass is a writer who worked on several stories and teleplays for Star Trek: The Next Generation. She was also a story editor for The Next Generation during the second season and an executive script consultant on the third season. Her script for was unsolicited, the first such script to be produced for The Next Generation. It was also one of her first scripts she ever wrote. (Peter Lauritson, TNG Season 2 DVD special feature "Departmental Briefing Year Two: Memorable Mission - The Measure Of A Man")

Two names seen on okudagrams in the episode were named after her, Captain Melinda Snodgrass and Snodgrass. Snodgrass was interviewed for Star Trek: The Official Fan Club Magazine, Issue 72, 1990. Also in, Snodgrass received a Writers Guild of America Award nomination in the category Episodic Drama for her work on.

Snodgrass was born in Los Angeles, California, grew up in Albuquerque, New Mexico and studied voice at the Conservartorium in Vienna, Austria. She then studied law and worked as lawyer for several years until she started to work as writer and story editor for television projects. Beside her work on Star Trek, Snodgrass wrote the stories for episodes of L.A. Law (1991, episode directed by David Carson), Beyond Reality (1991, episode directed by Allan Kroeker), Reasonable Doubts (1992-1993), SeaQuest DSV (1993, starring Marco Sanchez and Stephanie Beacham), Strange Luck (1995), Sliders (1996, starring John Rhys-Davies), Profiler (1998-1999), The Outer Limits (1995-2000), and Manny Coto's Odyssey 5 (2003, starring Peter Weller).

She also wrote the teleplay for the science fiction thriller Trapped in Space (1995) and the television pilot Star Command (1996) on which she also worked as Executive Producer. Between 1998 and 1999 Snodgrass was the consulting producer on the television series Profiler. In the more recent years she wrote several novels including the "Circuit" trilogy and the Edge series.

Star Trek credits

 * - - Story Editor (Season 2)
 * - - Executive Script Consultant (Season 3)
 * - Writer
 * - Teleplay
 * - Writer
 * - Writer
 * - Writer
 * Star Trek novels
 * Pocket TOS #19: The Tears of the Singers
 * Pocket TOS #19: The Tears of the Singers

External link

 * MelindaSnodgrass.com - official site

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