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[[File:Mike Sussman.jpg|thumb|Mike Sussman in 2012]]
 
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| Name = Mike Sussman
'''Michael David Sussman''' {{born|22|June|1967}}, often credited as '''Mike Sussman''', is a writer and producer of many ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'' and ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise]]'' episodes.
 
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| Birth name = Michael David Sussman
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| Gender = Male
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| Date of birth = {{d|22|June|1967}}
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| Place of birth = Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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| Date of death =
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| Roles = [[:Category:Writers|Writer]], [[:Category:Story editors|Story Editor]], [[:Category:Producers|Producer]], [[:Category:ENT performers|''ENT'' Performer]], [[Category:Star Trek novel authors|''Star Trek'' novel author]]
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| Characters = ''[[USS Defiant (NCC-1764) personnel#Operations division crewman_.235|Unnamed Defiant crew member]]''
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| image2 = Mike Sussman at a viewer.jpg
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| imagecap2 = ...at [[T'Pol]]'s Science Station on the {{USS|Defiant|NCC-1764}}...
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| image3 = Mike Sussman as a redshirt.jpg
 
| imagecap3 = ...and as a soon-to-be dead ''Defiant'' crewman
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'''Michael "Mike" David Sussman''' {{born|22|June|1967}}, often credited as "Mike Sussman", was a writer and producer of many ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'' and ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise]]'' episodes.
== Early life and career ==
 
Sussman was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, but spent most of his youth in the Gulf Coast resort town of Sarasota, Florida. By 1975, at the age of eight, Sussman was already a huge [[Trekkie]] and had begun writing fan fiction stories set within the ''[[Star Trek]]'' universe. As a teenager in the early 1980s, he petitioned his local UHF station to resume airing syndicated episodes of the [[TOS|original ''Star Trek'' series]].
 
   
 
By 1975, at the age of eight, Sussman was already a huge [[Trekkie]] and had begun writing fan fiction stories set within the ''[[Star Trek]]'' universe. As a teenager in the early 1980s, he petitioned his local UHF station to resume airing syndicated episodes of the [[TOS|original ''Star Trek'' series]].
After studying film and screenwriting at [http://www.fsu.edu/ Florida State University], Sussman began his television career as a newscast producer for Sarasota's ABC affiliate, [http://www.wwsb.com/ WWSB-TV]. While there, he produced the station's eleven o'clock news, as well as their 1992 Presidential Election coverage. Soon after relocating to Los Angeles he began writing for [http://kcal.com/ KCAL-TV's] Emmy Award-winning Prime 9 News.
 
 
== ''Star Trek'' ==
 
[[File:Mike Sussman at a desk.jpg|thumb|Writer Mike Sussman]]
 
[[File:Mike Sussman at a viewer.jpg|thumb|At T'Pol's Science Station on the ''Defiant'' ({{y|2005}})]]
 
[[File:Mike Sussman as a redshirt.jpg|thumb|... as a soon-to-be dead ''Defiant'' crewman]]
 
   
 
Sussman made his first professional sale to the ''Star Trek'' franchise in 1995 when he wrote the story for the acclaimed ''Star Trek: Voyager'' episode {{e|Meld}}. He contributed three more episodes as a freelance writer before joining the writing staff as a story editor for ''Voyager''{{'}}s [[VOY Season 7|seventh and final season]] in {{y|2000}}. When ''Voyager'' wrapped the following year, Sussman was hired as a writer and Executive Story Editor on ''Enterprise,'' and was eventually promoted to Co-Producer. During that show's [[ENT Season 3|third season]], Sussman was promoted to Producer, a position he held until the series was canceled in {{y|2005}}.
 
Sussman made his first professional sale to the ''Star Trek'' franchise in 1995 when he wrote the story for the acclaimed ''Star Trek: Voyager'' episode {{e|Meld}}. He contributed three more episodes as a freelance writer before joining the writing staff as a story editor for ''Voyager''{{'}}s [[VOY Season 7|seventh and final season]] in {{y|2000}}. When ''Voyager'' wrapped the following year, Sussman was hired as a writer and Executive Story Editor on ''Enterprise,'' and was eventually promoted to Co-Producer. During that show's [[ENT Season 3|third season]], Sussman was promoted to Producer, a position he held until the series was canceled in {{y|2005}}.
   
Perhaps Sussman's most popular episodes of ''Enterprise'' were {{e|In a Mirror, Darkly}} and {{e|In a Mirror, Darkly, Part II}}, the first ''Star Trek'' episodes to take place entirely in the [[mirror universe]]. Sussman showed his affection and knowledge of the original ''Star Trek'' series by tying these episodes in with the TOS episodes {{e|Mirror, Mirror}} and {{e|The Tholian Web}}. Sussman even made a cameo appearance in Part II, as a dead [[USS Defiant (NCC-1764) personnel#Operations division crewmember|crewman]] aboard the {{USS|Defiant|NCC-1764}}.
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Aside from fulfilling his producer duties for the season, Sussman also wrote several of its episodes, and his most popular episodes were arguably, {{e|In a Mirror, Darkly}} and {{e|In a Mirror, Darkly, Part II}}, the first ''Star Trek'' episodes to take place entirely in the [[mirror universe]] without any cross-overs from the [[prime universe]]. Sussman showed his affection and knowledge of the original ''Star Trek'' series by [[canon]]ically tying these episodes in with the ''Original Series'' episodes {{e|Mirror, Mirror}} and {{e|The Tholian Web}}. Sussman even made a cameo appearance in Part II, as a dead [[USS Defiant (NCC-1764) personnel#Operations division crewmember|crewman]] aboard the {{USS|Defiant|NCC-1764}}.
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Despite the success of "In a Mirror, Darkly," the ultimate cancellation of ''Enterprise'' ended every chance of seeing Sussman's story continue in future canon episodes. However, he has followed up his "Mirror, Darkly" episodes by writing the story for ''Age of the Empress'', the first novel in the [[Pocket Books]] compilation, ''[[Glass Empires]]''. {{e|Twilight}}," written by Sussman, was broadcast on {{d|8|April|2005}} as the "#1 Fan Favorite Episode" of the series, chosen in a Viewer's Choice poll at UPN.com. The readers of ''[[Star Trek Monthly|Star Trek Magazine]]'' chose Sussman's "In a Mirror, Darkly" as the best episode of ''Enterprise'' in their 40th anniversary reader poll, published in January 2006. He was credited as a writer on both the 600th live action episode of ''Star Trek'', {{VOY|Author, Author}}, as well as the 700th episode of the franchise, {{ENT|In a Mirror, Darkly}}.
   
 
[[M. Sussman]], a name on the [[Enterprise dedication plaque|dedication plaque]] of {{EnterpriseNX}}, was named after him as well as the [[Vulcan]] fight technique ''[[Suus Mahna]]'' in the episode {{e|Marauders}}. Together with Phyllis Strong he recorded [[audio commentary|audio commentaries]] for the episode {{e|Dead Stop}} and {{e|Regeneration}} on the [[ENT Season 2 DVD]] and with [[Tim Gaskill]] commentaries for the episodes {{e|In a Mirror, Darkly}} and {{e|In a Mirror, Darkly, Part II}} on the [[ENT Season 4 DVD]]. Additionally, for all his work on the franchise, Sussman's most endearing contribution, at least where the fan community is concerned, were his (co-)efforts to firmly ground ''Enterprise'', so close to becoming disavowed as being ''Star Trek'' altogether, within the ''Star Trek'' prime universe framework, and he has been featured in interviews for several [[magazines]] on his work, some of them headed with meaningful titles as "The Write Stuff" or "Renaissance Sussman", clearly reflecting this contribution.
Despite the success of "In a Mirror, Darkly," the cancellation of ''Enterprise'' ended the chances of seeing Sussman's story continue in future [[canon]] episodes. However, he has followed up his "Mirror, Darkly" episodes by writing the story for ''Age of the Empress'', the first novel in the [[Pocket Books]] compilation, ''[[Glass Empires]]''. {{e|Twilight}}," written by Sussman, was broadcast on {{d|8|April|2005}} as the "#1 Fan Favorite Episode" of the series, chosen in a Viewer's Choice poll at UPN.com. The readers of ''[[Star Trek Monthly|Star Trek Magazine]]'' chose Sussman's "In a Mirror, Darkly" as the best episode of ''Enterprise'' in their 40th anniversary reader poll, published in January 2006. He was credited as a writer on both the 600th live action episode of ''Star Trek'', {{VOY|Author, Author}}, as well as the 700th episode of the franchise, {{ENT|In a Mirror, Darkly}}.
 
   
 
== Career outside ''Star Trek'' ==
[[M. Sussman]], a name on the [[Enterprise dedication plaque|dedication plaque]] of {{EnterpriseNX}}, was named after him as well as the [[Vulcan]] fight technique ''[[Suus Mahna]]'' in the episode {{e|Marauders}}. Together with Phyllis Strong he recorded [[audio commentary|audio commentaries]] for the episode {{e|Dead Stop}} and {{e|Regeneration}} on the [[ENT Season 2 DVD]] and with [[Tim Gaskill]] commentaries for the episodes {{e|In a Mirror, Darkly}} and {{e|In a Mirror, Darkly, Part II}} on the [[ENT Season 4 DVD]]. In addition, he was interviewed in ''[[Star Trek: The Magazine Volume 2, Issue 4]]'' (2001, "''Star Trek: Voyager'': The Writers Look Back"), ''[[Star Trek: The Magazine Volume 2, Issue 11]]'' (2002, "Writers for ''Star Trek: Voyager'' and ''Enterprise''"), ''[[Star Trek Monthly issue 108]]'' (2003, "The Write Stuff" by [[James Swallow]]), and ''[[Star Trek Magazine issue 124]]'' (2005, "Renaissance Sussman" by David Bassom).
 
 
Mike Sussman was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, but spent most of his youth in the Gulf Coast resort town of Sarasota, Florida. After studying film and screenwriting at [http://www.fsu.edu/ Florida State University], Sussman began his television career as a newscast producer for Sarasota's ABC affiliate, [http://www.wwsb.com/ WWSB-TV]. While there, he produced the station's eleven o'clock news, as well as their 1992 Presidential Election coverage. Soon after relocating to Los Angeles he began writing for [http://kcal.com/ KCAL-TV's] Emmy Award-winning Prime 9 News.
   
== Work after ''Star Trek'' ==
 
 
After ''Enterprise'', Sussman was hired as a writer and Supervising Producer on [[Brannon Braga]]'s short-lived [[CBS Television Studios|CBS]] alien-invasion drama series, ''Threshold''. Among the regular actors on this series was ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' star [[Brent Spiner]]. Sussman wrote two of the episodes of this series, "Pulse" (episode six) and "Vigilante" (episode twelve, guest-starring [[Jacqueline Kim]]) before the series was pulled from the CBS schedule.
 
After ''Enterprise'', Sussman was hired as a writer and Supervising Producer on [[Brannon Braga]]'s short-lived [[CBS Television Studios|CBS]] alien-invasion drama series, ''Threshold''. Among the regular actors on this series was ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' star [[Brent Spiner]]. Sussman wrote two of the episodes of this series, "Pulse" (episode six) and "Vigilante" (episode twelve, guest-starring [[Jacqueline Kim]]) before the series was pulled from the CBS schedule.
   
 
He was also a writer and Co-Executive Producer on Sam Raimi's [http://www.legendoftheseeker.com/ ''Legend of the Seeker''], the syndicated fantasy/adventure series from Disney-ABC Domestic Television and ABC Studios, based on Terry Goodkind's ''The Sword of Truth'' series of novels. This series was executive produced by [[Kenneth Biller]].
 
He was also a writer and Co-Executive Producer on Sam Raimi's [http://www.legendoftheseeker.com/ ''Legend of the Seeker''], the syndicated fantasy/adventure series from Disney-ABC Domestic Television and ABC Studios, based on Terry Goodkind's ''The Sword of Truth'' series of novels. This series was executive produced by [[Kenneth Biller]].
   
Sussman is the Co-Creator and Co-Executive Producer of [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1714204/ ''Perception''], a one-hour drama series for TNT and ABC Studios that premiered in 2012, starring Emmy-winner Eric McCormack as a crime-solving neurology professor. The series also features [[LeVar Burton]] in a recurring role as Paul Haley, McCormack's supervisor at the fictional Chicago-Lake Michigan University. ''Perception'' has been renewed for a fourteen-episode second season, premiering in June, 2013.
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Sussman is a Creator and Executive Producer of [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1714204/ ''Perception''], a one-hour drama series for TNT and ABC Studios that premiered in 2012, starring Emmy-winner Eric McCormack as a crime-solving neurology professor. The series also features [[LeVar Burton]] in a recurring role as Paul Haley, McCormack's supervisor at the fictional Chicago-Lake Michigan University. ''Perception'' has been renewed for a fifteen-episode third season, premiering in the summer of 2014.
   
 
== ''Star Trek'' credits ==
 
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==''Star Trek'' interviews==
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*"''Star Trek: Voyager'': The Writers Look Back", {{STTM|2|4}}, August 2001
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*"Writers for ''Star Trek: Voyager'' and ''Enterprise''", {{STTM|2|11}}, March 2002
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*"The Write Stuff", [[James Swallow]], {{STM|108}}, September 2003
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*"Renaissance Sussman", David Bassom, {{STM|124}}, November 2005
   
 
== See also ==
 
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== External links ==
 
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* {{wikipedia|Michael Sussman (TV series writer/producer)}}
* [http://writtenbymikesussman.com/ WrittenByMikeSussman.com] - Official site
 
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Michael "Mike" David Sussman (born 22 June 1967; age 56), often credited as "Mike Sussman", was a writer and producer of many Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: Enterprise episodes.

By 1975, at the age of eight, Sussman was already a huge Trekkie and had begun writing fan fiction stories set within the Star Trek universe. As a teenager in the early 1980s, he petitioned his local UHF station to resume airing syndicated episodes of the original Star Trek series.

Sussman made his first professional sale to the Star Trek franchise in 1995 when he wrote the story for the acclaimed Star Trek: Voyager episode "Meld". He contributed three more episodes as a freelance writer before joining the writing staff as a story editor for Voyager's seventh and final season in 2000. When Voyager wrapped the following year, Sussman was hired as a writer and Executive Story Editor on Enterprise, and was eventually promoted to Co-Producer. During that show's third season, Sussman was promoted to Producer, a position he held until the series was canceled in 2005.

Aside from fulfilling his producer duties for the season, Sussman also wrote several of its episodes, and his most popular episodes were arguably, "In a Mirror, Darkly" and "In a Mirror, Darkly, Part II", the first Star Trek episodes to take place entirely in the mirror universe without any cross-overs from the prime universe. Sussman showed his affection and knowledge of the original Star Trek series by canonically tying these episodes in with the Original Series episodes "Mirror, Mirror" and "The Tholian Web". Sussman even made a cameo appearance in Part II, as a dead crewman aboard the USS Defiant.

Despite the success of "In a Mirror, Darkly," the ultimate cancellation of Enterprise ended every chance of seeing Sussman's story continue in future canon episodes. However, he has followed up his "Mirror, Darkly" episodes by writing the story for Age of the Empress, the first novel in the Pocket Books compilation, Glass Empires. "Twilight"," written by Sussman, was broadcast on 8 April 2005 as the "#1 Fan Favorite Episode" of the series, chosen in a Viewer's Choice poll at UPN.com. The readers of Star Trek Magazine chose Sussman's "In a Mirror, Darkly" as the best episode of Enterprise in their 40th anniversary reader poll, published in January 2006. He was credited as a writer on both the 600th live action episode of Star Trek, VOY: "Author, Author", as well as the 700th episode of the franchise, ENT: "In a Mirror, Darkly".

M. Sussman, a name on the dedication plaque of Enterprise NX-01, was named after him as well as the Vulcan fight technique Suus Mahna in the episode "Marauders". Together with Phyllis Strong he recorded audio commentaries for the episode "Dead Stop" and "Regeneration" on the ENT Season 2 DVD and with Tim Gaskill commentaries for the episodes "In a Mirror, Darkly" and "In a Mirror, Darkly, Part II" on the ENT Season 4 DVD. Additionally, for all his work on the franchise, Sussman's most endearing contribution, at least where the fan community is concerned, were his (co-)efforts to firmly ground Enterprise, so close to becoming disavowed as being Star Trek altogether, within the Star Trek prime universe framework, and he has been featured in interviews for several magazines on his work, some of them headed with meaningful titles as "The Write Stuff" or "Renaissance Sussman", clearly reflecting this contribution.

Career outside Star Trek

Mike Sussman was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, but spent most of his youth in the Gulf Coast resort town of Sarasota, Florida. After studying film and screenwriting at Florida State University, Sussman began his television career as a newscast producer for Sarasota's ABC affiliate, WWSB-TV. While there, he produced the station's eleven o'clock news, as well as their 1992 Presidential Election coverage. Soon after relocating to Los Angeles he began writing for KCAL-TV's Emmy Award-winning Prime 9 News.

After Enterprise, Sussman was hired as a writer and Supervising Producer on Brannon Braga's short-lived CBS alien-invasion drama series, Threshold. Among the regular actors on this series was Star Trek: The Next Generation star Brent Spiner. Sussman wrote two of the episodes of this series, "Pulse" (episode six) and "Vigilante" (episode twelve, guest-starring Jacqueline Kim) before the series was pulled from the CBS schedule.

He was also a writer and Co-Executive Producer on Sam Raimi's Legend of the Seeker, the syndicated fantasy/adventure series from Disney-ABC Domestic Television and ABC Studios, based on Terry Goodkind's The Sword of Truth series of novels. This series was executive produced by Kenneth Biller.

Sussman is a Creator and Executive Producer of Perception, a one-hour drama series for TNT and ABC Studios that premiered in 2012, starring Emmy-winner Eric McCormack as a crime-solving neurology professor. The series also features LeVar Burton in a recurring role as Paul Haley, McCormack's supervisor at the fictional Chicago-Lake Michigan University. Perception has been renewed for a fifteen-episode third season, premiering in the summer of 2014.

Star Trek credits

As Writer
As Actor
As Producer
  • ENT:
    • Co-producer (season 2 and episodes 3.1-3.10)
    • Producer (episodes 3.11-4.22)
As Story Editor/ Executive Story Editor

Star Trek interviews

See also

External links