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Good question. What does an Executive Producer do?

In my case I was able to put together the team that now runs the show. I’m not a writer. I was attached to direct the pilot but at the same time I was also finishing Insurrection, the last Star Trek movie. I wasn’t able to do both, so it worked out that David Nutter, who has great success with pilots, did our pilot and the show was sold.

As an executive producer who’s not a writer, my responsibilities are obviously to hire the best people for the jobs and to contribute notes to the scripts and then to the cuts as the shows come in.

What I’m most proud of besides the casting and the good fortune of getting Katims is the addition of Ron Moore, who was a lead writer on Star Trek. He wrote First Contact, which was my first movie directing effort, and ran Deep Space Nine, and is a master of story telling and mythology.

[That] was something that we needed to address with our aliens, the mythology of where they came from, and where they’re going and what they are looking for. Ron Moore’s been able to come in and give us some wonderful big arcs to that end.