Herbert Wright

As a high school exchange student in Japan, Herbert Wright began a lifelong study of martial arts, and the art of filmmaking after meeting the legendary director, Akira Kurosawa. After graduation with honors from Yale, filmmaker Wright moved to Hollywood, pursuing a successful career in movies and TV. Wright has worked as a producer-writer-director on hit shows such as Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987), War of the Worlds (1988), Hunter (1984), and Stingray (1986), amassing over 200 episodes produced. Trekkies know of the Emmy-nominated Wright as the "Father of the Ferengi", having created the notorious space villains at Gene Roddenberry's bidding. He is producing, writing and directing the first original made-for-the-Net Science Fiction entertainment, the sci-fi cyberseries Mars and Beyond (2000), on the Cyber Sci-Fi Network.