René Echevarria

René Echevarria is an American-Cuban screenwriter and film producer.

Biography

Screenwriter career

Echevarria began his career as an amateur screenwriter submitting unsolicited scripts to the producers of Star Trek: The Next Generation. After using a few of his stories, they hired him as a writer. He then became a regular contributor to Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. He has written for Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as well as the TV series Now and Again, Castle, Dark Angel and Medium, and is co-creator and writer of The 4400. He also co-writes Teen Wolf. He is now a contributing writer to the TV series Terra Nova.

Acting career

Echevarria can be seen in the background of the scene set at Vic Fontaine's Lounge in the final episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, "What You Leave Behind".

Producer career

• Now and Again supervising producer (1999–2000)
• Dark Angel executive producer (2001–2002); co-executive producer (2000–2001)
• MDs executive producer (2002)
• The 4400 executive producer (2004)
• Medium executive producer (2005–2008)
• Castle executive producer (2009–2010)
• Teen Wolf executive producer (2011-)
• Terra Nova (TV series) executive producer (2011-)

Star Trek writing credits

Star Trek: The Next Generation

• "The Offspring"
• "Transfigurations"
• "The Mind's Eye"
• "The Perfect Mate"
• "I, Borg"
• "True Q"
• "Ship in a Bottle"
• "Face of the Enemy"
• "Birthright, Part II"
• "Second Chances"
• "Descent, Part II"
• "Inheritance"
• "Lower Decks"
• "Eye of the Beholder"
• "Firstborn"
• "Preemptive Strike"

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

• "Equilibrium"
• "Past Tense, Part II"
• "Improbable Cause"
• "Explorers"
• "Facets"
• "Rejoined"
• "Crossfire"
• "The Muse"
• "…Nor the Battle to the Strong"
• "Trials and Tribble-ations"
• "The Begotten"
• "A Simple Investigation"
• "Children of Time"
• "Behind the Lines"
• "Statistical Probabilities"
• "Honor Among Thieves"
• "Afterimage"
• "Chrysalis"
• "Covenant"
• "Chimera"
• "Penumbra"
• "When It Rains..."
• "The Dogs of War"

External links

• René Echevarria at the Internet Movie Database
• René Echevarria at Memory Alpha (a Star Trek wiki)