Joe Menosky

Joe Menosky is a television writer known for his work on the various Star Trek series. Menosky joined the writing staff for Season 4 of Star Trek: The Next Generation, and also wrote for several episodes for Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager. As a writer on Voyager, he usually co-wrote with Brannon Braga.

Menosky is the writer credited with starting the trend of trying to work the number 47 into many scripts.^[1][2] He graduated from Pomona College in 1979, where the number 47 holds special importance (see 47 as an in-joke).^[3]

Star Trek franchise writing credits

The Next Generation

• "Legacy"
• "First Contact" with Marc Scott Zicree, Dennis Russell Bailey, David Bischoff, Ronald D. Moore and Michael Piller
• "The Nth Degree"
• "In Theory" with Ronald D. Moore
• "Clues" with Bruce D. Arthurs
• "Darmok" with Philip Lazebnik
• "Hero Worship" with Hilary J. Bader
• "Time's Arrow", Parts I and II with Michael Piller
• "The Chase" with Ronald D. Moore
• "Suspicions" with Naren Shankar
• "Masks"
• "Emergence" with Brannon Braga

Deep Space Nine

• "Dramatis Personae"
• "Rivals" with Jim Trombetta and Michael Piller
• "Distant Voices" with Ira Steven Behr and Robert Hewitt Wolfe

Voyager

• "Cathexis" with Brannon Braga
• "The Thaw" with Richard Gadas
• "Remember" with Brannon Braga
• "Future's End" Parts 1-2 with Brannon Braga
• "Alter Ego"
• "Distant Origin" with Brannon Braga
• "Scorpion" Parts 1-2 with Brannon Braga
• "The Gift"
• "Year of Hell" Parts 1-2 with Brannon Braga
• "The Killing Game" Parts 1-2 with Brannon Braga
• "Hope and Fear" with Rick Berman & Brannon Braga
• "Timeless" with Rick Berman & Brannon Braga
• "Equinox" Parts 1-2 with Rick Berman & Brannon Braga
• "Tinker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy" with Bill Vallely
• "The Voyager Conspiracy"
• "Blink of an Eye" with Michael Taylor
• "Muse"

References

1. "Starbase Pomona". Pomona College (via Internet Archive). Archived from the original on September 1, 2006. Retrieved 2010-05-17.
2. "Stardate 47". Pomona College (via Internet Archive). Archived from the original on September 1, 2006. Retrieved 2010-05-17.
3. "The Mystique of 47". Pomona College (via Internet Archive). Archived from the original on 2006-09-01. Retrieved 2010-05-16.

• Denise & Michael Okuda, Star Trek Chronology: A History of the Future, Appendix J, "Writing Credits".

External links

• Joe Menosky at the Internet Movie Database