David Weddle (born 18 July 1956; age 68) is a writer of several Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episodes. In all of the episodes he was involved in, he always wrote with Bradley Thompson. He also wrote the Star Trek: Section 31 DS9 novel Abyss.
"Inquisition" is his favorite episode of those he and Thompson wrote and considers it to also be their best. [1](X)
Weddle appears in the background of Vic's lounge in "What You Leave Behind" as a holographic guest.
Career[]
Weddle is a great fan of legendary director Sam Peckinpah. He was a friend of the Peckinpah family and met the famous director many times. He later wrote the biography If They Move . . . Kill 'Em!: The Life and Times of Sam Peckinpah, which was published in 1994. Ira Steven Behr, a great fan of Peckinpah, read the book and arranged to meet Weddle, securing him a place on the writing staff with Weddle "being a shameless opportunist", as he himself admitted, making use of the opportunity to secure a place for his friend Thompson as well, [2] whom he had met around 1978/79 when both were attending the USC School of Cinematic Arts. [3]
Weddle has appeared in many documentaries about Sam Peckinpah. These include Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron, Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade, A Simple Adventure Story: Sam Peckinpah, Mexico and The Wild Bunch, and Passion & Poetry: The Ballad of Sam Peckinpah. Weddle recorded audio commentaries for the movies in the Sam Peckinpah's Legendary Westerns Collection DVD.
Upon conclusion of the series, Weddle, together with partner Thompson, joined former Deep Space Nine colleague Ronald D. Moore as writer, executive story editor and co-producer on the latter's re-imagined Battlestar Galactica franchise, making, like he had done in Deep Space Nine, a cameo appearance in that series' by him co-written fourth season episode "Someone to Watch Over Me ". Weddle later reunited with Moore on For All Mankind.
Weddle has also written episodes for the later television series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Falling Skies, Defiance. The Strain and For All Mankind, invariably in conjunction with partner Weddle. Their collaboration on Defiance reunited the pair again with former Deep Space Nine production staffers Gary Hutzel and Doug Drexler (who incidentally, had also worked as production regulars on Battlestar Galactica), whereas the pair was reunited with Moore, Naren Shankar, Joe Menosky and the Okuda couple on For All Mankind.
Writing credits[]
- DS9:
- "Rules of Engagement"
- "The Assignment" (teleplay)
- "Business as Usual"
- "Sons and Daughters"
- "One Little Ship"
- "Inquisition"
- "The Reckoning" (teleplay)
- "Time's Orphan" (teleplay)
- "Treachery, Faith and the Great River" (teleplay, story by Philip Kim)
- "Prodigal Daughter"
- "'Til Death Do Us Part"
- "Extreme Measures"
External links[]
- David Weddle at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
- David Weddle at Wikipedia
- David Weddle at the Internet Movie Database
- 2005 David Weddle interview(X) at ChicagoTribune.com
- 2005 David Weddle interview
- David Weddle at Battlestar Wiki